I understand what this option is, but I don't think I properly understand the ups and downs of using it, or not using it.
What do people think?
What do people think?
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Welcome to HT Guide and Club Integra! I guess I don't need to try putting together a detailed explanation of upsampling, but you might find a letter exchange about it in Stereophile interesting: http://www.stereophile.com/showarchives.cgi?282:4
As for ups and downs of using it, especially as implemented in the RDC-7, I guess that some Purists would say that modifying the data bitstream with this technique is an unjustifed tampering of the original. Some self-styled Objectivists could also argue that since there cannot be any more information than was already recorded, the technique has no objective merit -- that recordings have to start out being recorded at a higher bit rate to garner any of the benefits ascribed to using the higher rates. Self-styled Subjectivists, on the other hand could argue that here is more going on in human hearing than we can measure or fully explain with mathematics, and therefore, "something" is going on using the process that can have a positive impact on our appreciation of the recording.
Since use of the feature in the RDC-7 is user-selectable (not hard wired in) it is something we can experiment with and decide for ourselves. I happen to like it. Cymbals, for instance, seem to have more snap when the feature is turned on, and brass instruments have more bite. Even instruments such as bassoon and oboe sound more life-like. So I leave it on.
But to someone elses ear, it may not sound that way. So my overall blanket recommendation is to try it, and if you like it, if it "opens up" the sound for you in a more life-like way, use it. If you think it degrades the sound, keep it turned off.
Burke
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