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Barend wrote:
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Whaddayou think?
Upsampling in CD Players- good or nonsense?
Barend

Forgive Arny for being ignorant about upsamplers. He's an
old fart and still listens to his Sony CDP101, one of the first CD
players ever marketed.

I've been known to do that.

It sounds great to his tired old ears.

Actually, the CDP 101 has been sounding just like much more modern CD
players to a lot of people.

I know very well what you're talking about, 16 to
24 bit upsampling.

That is not upsampling, since the numbers of samples in equals the number of
samples out.

It's hardly nonsense. One of my cd players is a Shanling, which has a
switch on the remote to switch between 16 and 24 bit
sampling. Most cases, the 24 bit rendition beats the
pants off the 16, but there are some Cds where in some
aspects, the 16 bit rendition is superior, at least to my
liking.

Ah, the magic of sighted evaluations!

If you have a DVD burner, you can get an idea by
simply burning 16 bit mp3's at 96k 24bit resolution. You
will hear much more information than the equivalent
tracks on a CD.

This makes no sense at all, since MP3s are burned as data, not music.

This is a total no-brainer, non
audiophiles and small children and even pet monkeys can
hear the differences between the CD and DVD copies.

Speaking of pet monkeys...