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so what settings is everybody using when it comes to resampling? BEST or just off?
for 'best' the manual says it's around 90khz, i use an asio 96khz usb to spdif out to spdif in of the v800, and don't have more then a couple of 192khz records, so i don't mind using this foobar http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=67373 extension that lets me resample, downsample, the rates i set in the configuration leaving untouched, bitperfect, everything else, in my case it downsamples only rates higher than 96khz to 96khz, so that my asio interface, limited to 96khz max, can process it, so for me the v800 is always at 'best' rate,
else if i would have a lot of records higher than 96khz and an interface capable of streaming rates higher than 96khz, i would see no reason not to use the optical or spdif in of the v800 so not to waste any of the resolution, in this case for resampling it's a little tricky, i would always like to use the max resampling rate applicable, but if u set it to 4x for 44.1khz when u play higher rates it will automatically switch to 3x, 2x, 1x, the higher which doesn't take u over the max v800 rate (210khz if i remember right), the problem is it's not gonna switch back automatically to 4x when playing 44.1khz again, and i like to make playlists from various records with different rates so 'best' will cover all the v800 supported input rates, actually downsampling only rates higher than 96khz? or 90 whatever
so in my understanding using a higher resampling rate makes jitter less of an issue, supposing it is, and using any resampling might be a performance advantage for the dac, as far as 'best' goes, in my understanding the manual suggests it's the rate at which the dac will perform at it's best (dr, thd+n, linearity, or whatever)
and any resampling of 16bit input streams might have an edge if using the v800 digital level volume pot to attenuate the output level, so to retain the bit depth, if the resampler have any effect operating at 24bit depth
so u see it's a little more complicated than just choosing between best, off, 1x, 2x, 3x, 4x, it's very flexible in that regard except for not being able to set the x rates automatically according to the input rate, to achieve the highest upsampling possible
knowing at what any given setting can give u an edge over the other for your particular setup, an the components in the v800, is what i would like to see more in depth explained in the manual and here
