I just want to put this out there. I'm not an audio flog with fancy acronyms and technical knowledge of how sine waves work and all the different elements that go into a DAC.
What I do want to say though is I play a ton of Nintendo Switch games and I watch a lot of Netflix. I listen to s***** quality music because band camp only outputs compressed stuff.
I had a Qutest DAC and wanted to just tell everyone, the m-scaler is worth it in my setup. It has a passthrough button so I can turn it from max up-scalling to zero upscaling and the conclusions after 6 months of use are, it makes games sound better, low quality music sound better, podcasts, you name it, it upscales it into something that sounds like it was an original master file.
What I see here in this really long thread is a bunch of audio file nerds throwing master music files at this thing, thinking that they're going to make them sound better. The hint is in the name. It's an upscaler.
Peace.