T+A DAC 8 DSD: Digital breakthrough or snake oil?

Reading into it more, I guess the advantages to upsampling have more to do with applying filters at gentler slopes and being able to move noise away from the musical frequencies we can actually hear, and not about making the music sound more "hi-res." That is fundamentally different than video upconversion, which extrapolates added information from the existing source to simulate a higher resolution image. Using that rationale, I can see why people would choose to upsample.

It would be interesting to hear this T+A DAC compared to a high end vinyl system. That's the real test.

 

To be that guy: I won't believe that this DAC is the one that sounds like analog any more than every other DAC claiming to sound like analog. Seriously, it's just about all of them. Just like every amp/speaker/wire claims to be the "truth" or something in audio.

That said, upsampling is probably a good idea, like how games anti-alias things. DACs are so much more than their digital conversion stage unfortunately.

 

Blasphemous, but we gotta get you on a gaming PC one of these days.

 

To be clear, I was not saying "oh I see why upsampling is good, therefore this DAC must be the real deal". I'm curious to hear it but remain skeptical.