Is the Monarchy DIP effective?

Bradz,

Ozzy needs to qualify his answer as he did not do the job correctly: What Ozzy bought & tried out in his system was the Monarchy DIP 48/96 Upsampler unit. This unit's main job is async rate conversion with jitter reduction I would say as a #2 job.
Monarchy used to make another unit called the DIP 24/96, whose main job was jitter reduction. it did NOT upsample. IMHO & being a DIP 24/96 owner, I would say that the DIP 24/96 is much better at jitter reduction.
In fact, Monarchy used to recommend that people use BOTH the DIP 24/96 AND the DIP 48/96 in that order between the transport & the DAC for best results in jitter reduction. The fact that the DIP 24/96 was put 1st in line indicated its ability to deal w/ jitter better than the DIP 48/96 Upsampler. Unfortunately, the DIP 24/96 has been discontinued.
However, all is not lost: go to Monarchy Audio's website:
http://www.monarchyaudio.com/
On the left side, click on "DIP".
Scroll down & take a look at the "DIP CLassic" - you can read its specs. This little unit's main job is jitter reduction & it will accept all sampling freq between 32KHz & 96KHz so your Sony DVD7700 playing redbook CD should work just fine. I don't think that it decodes DVDs - Monarchy says that.

Ozzy: if you want to give it another shot, try the Monarch DIP Classic. It might work better. You probably will get the most bang for your buck by buying both the DIP CLassic & the DIP 48/96 & putting the DIP 48/96 after the DIP Classic. OTOH, the jitter of the SB Touch might already be good enough, as I wrote in the other thread a couple days back.

Bombaywalla, to add another box plus digital cables and power cables is too much to spend for a maybe, iffy improvement.

12-17-10: Ozzy
Bombaywalla, to add another box plus digital cables and power cables is too much to spend for a maybe, iffy improvement.

understand....

Actually it kind of depends. I had posted in another thread that my SB3 into Benchmark dac was not improved with the DIP 48/96 upsampler. I figured the Benchmark upsampled itself and the extra step not necessary (and cost, and cables, though I had one sitting around so no real investment). When I upgraded the Benchmark to the Berkeley, I tried the DIP 48/96 again and it was an obvious improvement. Soundstage became wider and deeper, more, much more, resolution. (it truly was night and day). I figured the Berkeley didn't upsample and the readout on the berkeley went from 44.1 to 96, not a bad thing as it was now being fed a 96k signal. I liked it so much that I upgraded the SB3 to the Touch, and then, a month later, the DIP to the Combo. Again, an improvement, probably due to the clock in the Combo. I think any improvement the DIP may afford is dependent on the dac it is going into; if the dac upsamples, the upsampler should probbaly not make an improvement, though I would be interested to see what Ozzy's experience may have been with the Combo.

though I would be interested to see what Ozzy's experience may have been with the Combo

Cerrot, that's exactly what I was recommending to Ozzy - either buying the DIP Classic & the DIP 48/98 Upsampler OR, as you suggested, the DIP Combo. I believe that the Combo is the Classic & 48/96 all rolled into one unit.