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Will I benefit from a new DAC that can upscale to 192

New to streaming and I enjoy it.

Will I improve my listening enjoyment by up grading to a DAC that can upscale to 192?

budget is under 1500 and I have no issue with used as my entire system has been purchased that way.

If so I am lost at sea with the options. 
I also am not sure the laptop is the best way to go for my source.
Not really close to any dealers that can direct me in person.


Equipment:
Rouge 99 pre
Odyssey Stratos mono amps
Rega Dac...1st gen
Vanersteen 2CE with 2 Vandersteen subs
4VS Kimber wire
Heros for interconnects
using  entry level Kimber USB cord
Dell laptop as source 
Stream Tidal
Music ripped to a portable hard drive as WAV lossless
 

mswobo
audioengr
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Here is another good option for USB to S/PDIF:

https://www.peachtreeaudio.com/x1-usb-spdif-converter.html

There are probably lots of similar things on ebay as well.  Just Google USB to S/PDIF converter

Steve N.

Empirical Audio

david_ten
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I'd focus less on upsampling (at this point in your journey) and more on getting the most you can out of your system for Redbook level files. Nail that and then move forward.
audioengr
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You are correct, reducing jitter is more important than upsampling.


Steve N.

Empirical Audio

docknow
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mswobo-

I seemed to have convinced myself that I can hear the improvement of going from 96 to 192 kHz when comparing the same material.

Take a look at the Schiit Bifrost or Modi MultiBit DACs.  They are in the price range of the other options being mentioned here.

-docknow
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shadorne
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Lots of folks using Roon find that upsampling sounds better. Ultimately it depends on your DAC quality. Many DACs benefit from upsampling. It makes no difference for my DAC so I just set Roon to stick to native sample rates of the original file.

Jitter is a whole other problem. Either go for a DAC that reliably rejects all incoming jitter or use reclockers and try various fancy cables until you think you have a half reasonable working solution.
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