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RE: Smithers / upsampling

Posted by PAR on December 30, 2018 at 14:55:22:
" I am saving for an upsampling dac (based on Russian kit) which I think will solve my digital issues"

Why do you think that? Upsampling adds no additional information ( genuine hi-res does). It does allow for digital filters with more "gentle" characteristics to be used but those filters have to be at your disposal. What choices does this Russian kit give you?

I have 18 or so years of owning upsampling equipment from the company that effectively invented the whole idea. However aside from an initial few years* I have since never used it. I have found it has some subtle unsettling characteristics (even using the latest revised algorithms). I would rather play straightforward redbook albeit with the asymmetrical filter ( no pre-ringing) that I can access.

I am not saying that what you are saving for may not provide what you seek but that the paper specification promises nothing in the real audible world. You need to hear before you buy.

* one interesting point is that although I was more or less happy with it for those years all of my musician friends hated it from the get go.