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    Re: Devialet 400 review by Soundstage Magazine

    Quote Originally Posted by f1eng View Post
    Tha D-Premier has a HDMI input. This was dropped in newer units in favour of USB and Ethernet.
    There are HDMI to toslink converters available on Amazon, whether they add jitter I don't know.
    Very interesting. Thanks.
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    Re: Devialet 400 review by Soundstage Magazine

    I'm puzzled with Devialet, it up samples all it's music cd's etc. and I like it but when I use to have the MSB dac I hated listening to up sampled cd's.
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    Re: Devialet 400 review by Soundstage Magazine

    John.

    It is a conundrum indeed. Probably because of the system integration is so tight, everything is optimized. I am so happy with my D400. It's amazing and so musical.
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    Re: Devialet 400 review by Soundstage Magazine

    The up sampling in the MSB DAC was probably done on an off the shelf ASRC chip (Asynchronous Sample Rate Converter), while the Devialet writes their own up sampling code on a FPGA (field-programmable gate array).

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    Re: Devialet 400 review by Soundstage Magazine

    Isn't upsampling like the Tooth Fairy anyway? Conversion processes don't come without sonic penalties and you don't get to create or add more bits of resolution to an existing file than what it was recorded with. It kind of reminds of arguing about whose implants look the most real.
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    Re: Devialet 400 review by Soundstage Magazine

    Quote Originally Posted by mep View Post
    Isn't upsampling like the Tooth Fairy anyway? Conversion processes don't come without sonic penalties and you don't get to create or add more bits of resolution to an existing file than what it was recorded with. It kind of reminds of arguing about whose implants look the most real.
    Now I'm a expert at that. Years of motor boating
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    Re: Devialet 400 review by Soundstage Magazine

    Quote Originally Posted by johnthomas View Post
    Now I'm a expert at that. Years of motor boating
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