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Upsamplers, DACs, jitter, shakes and analogue withdrawals, this is it.

Esoteric makes great-sounding stuff.

I personally think that the value leader in DSD-cpable DACs is Grace Design's m920, which can be had factory-direct with a money-back guarantee for $1895.

My favorite feature of the m920 is that it has seven selectable digital filters, 4 for DSD and 3 for PCM, and the PCM filters includes a Minimum Phase option that I LOVE.

HOWEVER, the Grace m920 does not upconvert PCM to DSD. I think it's worth a try anyway. In the Esoteric's price tier, I also like Luxman digital; their comparable unit upsamples PCM but to 32/384, not DSD.

DISCLOSURE: Since leaving Stereophile magazine (voluntarily and amicably), I have continued my activities in music production and recording, but I have also founded a small-batch audio and T-Shirt company, ESPERANTO AUDIO.

Here's the backstory to that name:

Esperanto is the name of the "constructed international auxiliary language" devised and promoted by L.L. Zamenhof in 1887. Far from being a forgotten remnant of fin-de-si



Edits: 11/14/15

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