Monarchy Audio DIP/Upsampler Combo

Based on my experiences with Monarchy DIPs (including non-upsampling ones), as well as reviews/discussion forums, I think it is the re-clocking and jitter reduction that these units do that is responsible for most of the improvements. Hence, improvement is often not noticeable with DACs that have very good jitter rerection, like the Benchmark mentioned above.

Agree with Arni and, as for the benefit of the upsampling, if your dac does upsample, you probably would not experience the benefit I did, but, I'm not sure if it makes a difference to your dac accepting a 44.1k signal and than upsampling or accepting a 96k signal.

Again, with the Monarchy, my Berkley receives a 96k signal, and that was a hugh improvement compared to the dac w/o the Monarchy.

Ozzy, I was just at the Chord website. Are you sure your dac upsamples, or does it just accept higher sample rate signals? (big difference).

Cerrot, You typed Chord, instead of Cary Audio.
Yes, my Cary 306 SACD Pro can upsample to 768.

I doubt if the Monarchy would be an improvement, but I would like to at least try it.

Sorry, Ozzy. Thought you had the Chord. $400 bucks for the Combo and maybe 30 day trial so easy enough to try. Love to hear your findings. Happy Listening.