Mapman
"If it works, who cares how it did it?"
That's true - but understanding helps to narrow search. Sounds of upsampling, oversampling and non-oversampling DACs are different. Many people don't like sound of upsampling converters (Muralman - are you there?) while I praise clarity and transparency of Benchmark DAC1 and would look for similar one in future. Understanding what jitter is and how to prevent it helps as well.
There is nothing wrong in understanding!
"If it works, who cares how it did it?"
That's true - but understanding helps to narrow search. Sounds of upsampling, oversampling and non-oversampling DACs are different. Many people don't like sound of upsampling converters (Muralman - are you there?) while I praise clarity and transparency of Benchmark DAC1 and would look for similar one in future. Understanding what jitter is and how to prevent it helps as well.
There is nothing wrong in understanding!