[HeadLover]

Hi
I am curios, does using plugins like secret rabbit or ssrc and so on, to oversample my 44KHz to 192 or 96, provide any kind of sound quality benfit ?

 

[milkweg]

I've played around with sampling rates but never noticed any real difference to my ears. There is a bit of difference but not what I would call better. Many people prefer to use 44.1khz because then there is no upsampling going on, cd audio is 44.1khz. I use 48khz because that is the default of PC soundcards and DVD so it is just less hassle for me than to have to get my EMU 0404 to sync to a different sampling rate than default 48khz. I don't notice enough of a difference to bother changing it either. YMMV.

 

[Lokonsky]

There's some card that bennefit with this feature and all of them from creative (audigy range), because they cant handle 44.1khz natively (only 48khz) and their upsampling engine are poor.

 

[Planar_head]

Using upsampling on my X-Fi tends to make the decay shorter and smoother. I also find that imperfections in the music tend to get smoothed over, and the highs tend to get less sharp, which is a plus on my Grados.

Oh course, on a more resolving, transparent setup, I would think upsampling would make the music far too unnatural.

 

[1UP]

It depends on your DAC (its in-built filters and clocks) - some may respond subjectively better or worse depending on the frequency selected; others not - just try it!

 

[HeadLover]

amm I have tried, didn't seem to do anything to the sound

(but I am not sure! maybe just a little bit)

I am using ORITEK OMZ 4.2 and ASUS D2X
Anyone else here have one of them and can tell me what oversampling is he using ??

 

[fjf]

No. Upsampling creates only noise (pops and cracks) when the CPU cannot give an smooth audio stream.

 

[craiglester]

While I've never had any crackles or pops, I do find the sound a little TOO smooth for my tastes. I try and keep eveything at it's original sample rate these days, for simplicity.

 

[panda]

no, even hardware oversample algorithms screw up the sound

 

[Planar_head]

I know some people that frequent the Computer Forum don't like upsampling... but now, there are also people that prefer ss to tubes, and vinyl to digital.

We can all get along, use whatever you feel is best, or whatever happens to match best with your system.

 

[b0dhi]

If you can't hear the difference, what does it matter to you? Try it or don't. It's not exactly a huge investment to enable upsampling and listen for yourself. I recommend the SRC or SSRC resamplers.

 

[Quaddy]

upsampling is a joke, for me at least, i have equipment and software capable of upsampling to their hearts content, but i dont as a rule of thumb like to degrade my music, i like it bit perfect not padded out, so when i am playing 44.1/16 i have every component and software component set to that rate, untouching the master rate.

plus i dislike the false sound derived from upsampling, i like it natural, but each to their own

no upsampling here!

 

[Scrith]

Theoretically, upsampled audio data should sound exactly the same as audio data that has not been upsampled (there is no loss of data, and the new data should be irrelevant to the sound that is being produced).

However, various DACs out there respond differently to data that is at, say, 96K vs. data that is at 44K. Because of this, sometimes it is beneficial to upsample, and sometimes it ends up sounding worse. It is not possible to make a blanket statement like "upsampling always sounds better" or "upsampling always sounds worse" because of this dependency on the DAC (or whatever hardware down the chain is dealing with the modified audio data).

The classic examples here of DACs that can sound better with upsampled data: computer sound cards that upsample to 48K on their own (because they generally do a poor job of upsampling to 48K on their own), and (to some) the Benchmark DAC1 and Lavry DA10 (and other DACs that upsample to something over 100K as part of their jitter elimination process).

 

[Tea]

I am not sure about upsample the KHz, but technically you should benefit by upsample the Bit to 24 since most of the DAC got a lot better spec at 24 bit playback than 16 bit.

 

[[L]es]

upsampling matters ? in software ? on foobar ?

edit: not that good.