In Reply to: Oversampling vs. Upsampling: Marketing Speak posted by Tony Lauck on August 28, 2012 at 06:32:28:
The big advantage with the NOS DAC is that you can use it with software (over/up) sampling which can significantly reduce the aliasing and high frequency drop, BUT bypasses the compromised filter implementations built into the DAC chips.
Unfortunately there are a lot of 16 bit NOS DACs out there which don't take as much advantage of the software upsampling as a higher bit NOS DAC does. NOS DACs which can do 20 bits or more have a big advantage here (the Metrum Octave, some of the Audio GD models etc.)
John S.
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- RE: Oversampling vs. Upsampling: Marketing Speak - John Swenson 12:59:48 08/28/12 (1)
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