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Upsampling, Can there be too much?

I've owned the Chord Mscaler for a year and loved it, but recently added two new components that have built in upsampling: The Aurender W20SE, and the Jay's Audio CDT3-MK3. I find the Mscaler works well with the Aurender's built in upsampling, but not the Jay's.

 

Conclusion: not upsampling the Jay's, and standard redbook 16-bit 44Khz to the Mscaler gives incredible 24-bit 705Khz to the Hugo TT2 DAC for finest sound.

 

With multiple upsamplers in a chain has anyone gotten static, popping, smearing, or any kind of distortion from too much upsampling?

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vonhelmholtz
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@brandonhifi 

O.T. Curious..On the Aurender site it suggest AES, or coax output is preferable to USB. Have you found this to be true?

kota1
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My experience is it depends on the track, and yes, there can be too much of a good thing. 

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brandonhifi OP
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@vonhelmholtz 
The Chord Mscaler only has 1 USB, 2 optical toslink, and 2 BNC inputs. The W20SE has usb bit perfect output only so no upsampling possible with USB output. I find the upsampling on the Aurender using my BNC Transparent XL cable far superior to USB. So I use both BNCs for the Aurender and Jay’s.

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