In Reply to: offboard dac question posted by renaissance on March 11, 2001 at 17:16:47:
When you use an outboard dac with a cd player you are not using the cd player's dac at all.The cd player's dac is not related to what an outboard dac is capable of processing.
Standard cd data is encoded at 16/44 (meaning 16 bit samples at 44k sampling rate). This is the information that is sent to the digital output of the cd player and hence the input of the outboard dac.
If a dac performs any kind of updampling it still uses the 16/44 data because that is all that exists on a standard cd. There is a whole debate about the results of mashing 16/44 data to synthetically produce higher resolutions - you can decide for yourself where you stand.
A standard cd player is not capable of playing true 24/96 media. If you want to get at this higher resolution source material you need to buy a player capable of reading it.
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