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Yes, can do.I need pictures! Can’t someone please produce measurements of a single tone waveform analogue output comparing various inputs from redbook 16/44 then that same signal upsampled to various PCM and DSD rates? Personally I’d like this done in the DX7s as this I the DAC I have
But it is a waste of our time. 16 bit will impose some noise limitations with some of the gear. Otherwise, you'll get measurements that are identical effectively.
I happened to have this. Not exactly what you want. 1 khz tone. Done at 48 khz and upsampled the same file to 96 khz. Both were recorded over the same gear at 192 khz sample rate.
Lite blue(cyan) is 96 khz upsampled from 48 khz and magenta is 48 khz at native sample rate. Everything is the same except for one thing. The 48 khz file shows imaging artifacts at 47 khz and 49 khz. The highest being - 116 dbFS. Otherwise more identical than two peas in a pod. It might not look like it, but look close the 1 khz tone and harmonics are right on top of each other. The cyan graph is covering the magenta graph within a fraction of a decibel.
That is all I've seen doing such things. If you are using some odd "audiophile" filter with a reduced treble and slow roll-off allowing more imaging to occur at a higher level, then upsampling will get rid of imaging and restore treble response droops. Of course that is one of those situations where audiophile swears by filter allowing imaging artifacts and softened treble and swears twice as much about the benefits of upsampling which would get rid of those artifacts and flatten frequency response in the treble.