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In Reply to: RE: Upsample before? posted by Sumflow on June 14, 2012 at 17:48:13:
Sure, you can upsample in software at your computer if you are using a computer for a music source. I suspect that the majority of audiophiles are not primarily using a computer for a music source.Take what Todd said about asynchronous upsampling with a large handful of salt. Todd says that he doesn't subjectively like the sound of asynchronous upsampling, which is his prerogative as an audiophile. Where he then goes wrong is in ascribing technical rational for his subjective opinion. In fact, most asynchronous upsampling implementations (software or hardware based) have superior accuracy compare to most hardware based synchronous oversampling implementations. By the way, as a general convention, audiophiles refer to asynchronous interpolation as upsampling while refering to synchronous interpolation as oversampling, although I'm aware of no written rule about that. In addition, asynchronous upsampling solutions also feature highly effective jitter suppression. Such strong jitter suppression, while not of much use in a CD player, is extremely useful in an external DAC box, but that is a different discussion.
As always, let your own ears be the judge, never rationalize what SHOULD sound better based on technical explanations.
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Ken Newton
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- RE: Upsample before? - knewton 05:46:00 06/15/12 (2)
- RE: Upsample before? - Sumflow 11:17:31 06/15/12 (1)
- RE: Upsample before? - knewton 15:56:52 06/15/12 (0)
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