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Old 3rd October 2011, 13:45   #32  |  Link
nand chan
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Originally Posted by pbelkner View Post
This player "sounds" better compared to others because it uses SoX up-sampling. Technically this means that not the original signal is send to the DAC.

On the other hand each decent DAC up-samples on it's own in the course of reconstructing the analog signal from the digital in order to smoothen the digital staircase. As it seems usually the SoX up-sampler outperforms the ones usually build-in into DACs.
Okay, but why don't you just use the regular SoX plugin with a normal reference decoder?

That's what I do, in particular the SoX plugin for foobar2000.
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