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As ,any dacs do this and some with music servers like caps a made for purpose desktop server do this too.
A few observations I have made over a couple of years that now some I now feel different .
some dacs do play dsd better than PCM and vice versa As well so upsampling a format may be very handy but what to upsample and how far do we upsample .
there is a thread on here from sound galleries perhaps the best music server ever put together for digital audio . It contains just about every kind of play back setup one could find under one roof .
Getting back to upsampling while some dacs and two come to mind one being the Psaudio direct steam the other a hugo . While they do the upsample in diffent ways they still do not play back the input in native .
I have tried upsampling in the past many times and never felt it improved things for me only my msb stack did it to where I felt it was better . Now please keep in mind better is like beauty is in the eye of the beholder and in audio I think it is too.
But resently I have to upsample PCM has its virtues , but not to just remove a bit of bite as normal does . What I have found is of we upsample PCM to dsd 512 like sound galleries does a few things happen .
If I were to put into words what is the primary diffenence of great analog compared to great digital it's the following
one is relaxing the music it may sound silly but it's a funditmenil in I feel analog is better in hiw it hits my brain
next is air or sounds after the fundamental note is struck poor digital has little of this you may hesr it but not like analog gives it .
another is attack in the presintaion PCM has too much attack as analog has the dynamics but not the edge .
now all of the above are inproved over PCM with dsd I feel . But there is a part of note separation the analog has that most all dsd or PCM does not have even if it has the note thickness it should .
nora jones in dsd is nice but some of her music in PCM fr me is painful as it seems to ring especially the piano on some songs .
taking PCM weather it's redbook or hirez using HQ player or Jriver adds depth , removes ringing separates notes and relaxes the music . It even seems to improve the staging . On some tracks it brings me closer to the music . Buena vista social club . A pretty good PCM file while bass is muddy the piano and rough vocals are cool. When upsample to dsd 512 there is now magic it's dsd sound but more important it's it's analog like presintaion .
These observations were done on the fly upsampling not offline . Now uosampling dsd is fruitless it simply smooths the music , while some claim dsd is smooth for me it's not what it does do is make the dynamics less causing a smoothness .
for anyone who has access to the sound galleries or has a server that can upsample please try it it's a very worthwhile venture with a big payoff
others please feel free to comment .
bob of rapsidy ausio does the sel 2 upsample PCM to dsd ?
A few observations I have made over a couple of years that now some I now feel different .
some dacs do play dsd better than PCM and vice versa As well so upsampling a format may be very handy but what to upsample and how far do we upsample .
there is a thread on here from sound galleries perhaps the best music server ever put together for digital audio . It contains just about every kind of play back setup one could find under one roof .
Getting back to upsampling while some dacs and two come to mind one being the Psaudio direct steam the other a hugo . While they do the upsample in diffent ways they still do not play back the input in native .
I have tried upsampling in the past many times and never felt it improved things for me only my msb stack did it to where I felt it was better . Now please keep in mind better is like beauty is in the eye of the beholder and in audio I think it is too.
But resently I have to upsample PCM has its virtues , but not to just remove a bit of bite as normal does . What I have found is of we upsample PCM to dsd 512 like sound galleries does a few things happen .
If I were to put into words what is the primary diffenence of great analog compared to great digital it's the following
one is relaxing the music it may sound silly but it's a funditmenil in I feel analog is better in hiw it hits my brain
next is air or sounds after the fundamental note is struck poor digital has little of this you may hesr it but not like analog gives it .
another is attack in the presintaion PCM has too much attack as analog has the dynamics but not the edge .
now all of the above are inproved over PCM with dsd I feel . But there is a part of note separation the analog has that most all dsd or PCM does not have even if it has the note thickness it should .
nora jones in dsd is nice but some of her music in PCM fr me is painful as it seems to ring especially the piano on some songs .
taking PCM weather it's redbook or hirez using HQ player or Jriver adds depth , removes ringing separates notes and relaxes the music . It even seems to improve the staging . On some tracks it brings me closer to the music . Buena vista social club . A pretty good PCM file while bass is muddy the piano and rough vocals are cool. When upsample to dsd 512 there is now magic it's dsd sound but more important it's it's analog like presintaion .
These observations were done on the fly upsampling not offline . Now uosampling dsd is fruitless it simply smooths the music , while some claim dsd is smooth for me it's not what it does do is make the dynamics less causing a smoothness .
for anyone who has access to the sound galleries or has a server that can upsample please try it it's a very worthwhile venture with a big payoff
others please feel free to comment .
bob of rapsidy ausio does the sel 2 upsample PCM to dsd ?
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