solderdude
Grand Contributor
It's a bogus story. It only means that during the upsampling process only the intermediate calculated values are 'invented' and the actual sample values are the ones used from the actual data. So a 4x oversampled 44.1 (let's face it, the majority of folks have mostly 44.1) only has 1 out of every 4 samples 'bit perfect' (that's what they mean with bit perfect) the following 3 are calculated.
This is sent to the DAC chip(s) and the output is sample and hold.
This means that 'bit-perfect' sample value is held 5.6us where in reality the original sample, when taken, was of a much, much shorter duration.
Then, these 'stairsteps' are followed by low-pass filter (to get rid of the stairsteps) which turns it more into a smoother signal.
At a specific point in time the actual output voltage will be exactly the same as the sample value suggests and the rest of the time it is not.
Compare that to any other DAC and these DAC's analog output too will have the exact same output voltage as the sample value dictates at a specific point in time.
So... the megaburritocombo filter story is just blabla where a lot of folks value the schiit story as 'relevant' and accept that 'explanation' as the reason why they subjectively prefer Schiit MB.
That and believing the Schiit filter is 'more accurate' and more 'musical' as all other resampling algorithms.
Something like freedom of religion exists so if one buys into advertising talk one is free to do so.
This is sent to the DAC chip(s) and the output is sample and hold.
This means that 'bit-perfect' sample value is held 5.6us where in reality the original sample, when taken, was of a much, much shorter duration.
Then, these 'stairsteps' are followed by low-pass filter (to get rid of the stairsteps) which turns it more into a smoother signal.
At a specific point in time the actual output voltage will be exactly the same as the sample value suggests and the rest of the time it is not.
Compare that to any other DAC and these DAC's analog output too will have the exact same output voltage as the sample value dictates at a specific point in time.
So... the megaburritocombo filter story is just blabla where a lot of folks value the schiit story as 'relevant' and accept that 'explanation' as the reason why they subjectively prefer Schiit MB.
That and believing the Schiit filter is 'more accurate' and more 'musical' as all other resampling algorithms.
Something like freedom of religion exists so if one buys into advertising talk one is free to do so.