Re: [LAU] 24-bit files and hisss.... GOT IT

From: Sampo Savolainen <v2@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Mon Feb 16 2009 - 21:55:15 EET

On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 20:19 +0100, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 08:49:50PM +0200, Sampo Savolainen wrote:
>
> > Good marketing?
>
> Yes.
>
> > Let's ask the question the other way around: if upsampling is a superior
> > way to convert from digital to analog, why do we see upsampling being
> > mentioned only in obscenely expensive hi-fi CD players? Why Lynx,
> > Apogee, RME, etc. don't use this technology in their highly praised
> > converters?
>
> Don't they ? It's probably just inside the chips they use.

That was the point I was trying to make in the previous paragraph from the one you quoted.
The point here was that it seems a lot of companies making high quality converters don't feel upsampling is worth mentioning.

 Sampo

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