Interesting document I found on DAC's and upsampling

[MikeCh]

It's a bit techy, but quite interesting. It's from 2002 so not sure if some/most/any is still valid, but thought I'd share nonetheless.

Makes me wonder if the seemingly endless amounts of "sampling and processing" that current designs/gear are capable of if there can be any true improvement upon the original formatted signal. E.g., take a std Redbook CD and output to an external DAC...the DAC does all of it's sampling/processing then outputs an analog signal.

Is the net resulting analog signal just a different interpretation / flavor that may or may not contain more distortion or "noise" that our ears find appealing?

 

[Mike]

Reminds me of really bad 80's processed food when the food that came out of the box never tasted like it should.

 

[MikeCh]

Reminds me of really bad 80's processed food when the food that came out of the box never tasted like it should.

Good analogy Mike.

 

[GaryProtein]

It's a totally anecdotal article with no references.