Upsampling Background

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In the end, you have to like what you hear.

Indeed I was rather disappointed with what I was hearing until I chanced on a comment that suggested upsampling to the max the card could take. Wow. What a difference. It might not be "proper" but it is nice.

I think a lot of these discussions of 'purity' are off target insofar as the input 'pure' lower resolution sample is upsampled in all cases. In most cases where external upsampling (like sox in Moode) is not used, the DAC chip does the upasampling because the acutual digital to analog conversion is only performed at one high frequency and bit depth. What we are discussing here is which 'impure' process delivers the best result to our ears.