[Drakemoor]

Can someone give me an idea of the difference between 44.1Khz and 96Khz because i'm considering buying a Chaintech AV-710 and want to know what i'll be getting. For some reason to me it seems hard to imagine sound above 44.1 Khz and it seems pretty hard to improve upon but the difference between 22 and 44 is pretty massive so could someone give me an idea please

Also what the differnce between 16 bit and 24 bit, i'm starting to wonder why people buy expensive CD players when this can produce better, although that sounds pretty ignorant and too good to be true

 

[Kuja]

There is no positive benefit to using 96 on an AV-710 because the source upon which the upsampling algorithm works is 44.1 - it can't generate new data, only interpolate.

It is also claimed that upsampling may in fact smear the highs somewhat, however the engineers/programmers state upsampling should not be perceptible.

 

[averydonovan]

I found that upsampling from 44.1KHz to 96KHz in foobar2000 took out a bit of detail and compressed the soundstage. But my recordings in 24b/96KHz from a turntable definately sound quite nice and downsampling those to CD-quality is a quite noticable decrease in quality.

 

[Mr.Radar]

The AV-710, when using the Wolfson DAC, requires resampling to 96KHz to operate properly (even if you don't resample in Foobar, Windows will do the resampling for you).