Chord Hugo M-Scaler Upsampler Review (Video)

[amirm]

Video follow up of my review of Chord M-scaler:

It mostly mirrors the text review although I talk more about the underlying concepts and some questions that came up post review.

 

[AdamG247]

That piggy bank is either completely empty or you have stocked it with cookies that are too large to squeeze out the top slot!

 

[testp]

Rob Watts should hit Like for this video, cause there is things to learn here..

 

[Nango]

Derailing the signal by that much even in pass-thru mode? Unacceptable amazing poor performance, this IS certainly a case for the F.B.I.

 

[Nango]

4.000$ these Dan Stealth headphones!!! Teardown, teardown!!!

 

[Nango]

Maybe M-Scaler does need an special burn-in?? Put it into the microwave and circle it for 3 mins at 1000W, think this will help the 5.000$ to perform.

 

[the_brunx]

 

[voodooless]

Here is a nice post detailing why Gaussian dither is worse:

Dither explained, by Nika

Dither explained, by Nika

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But the actual argument was not about it being technically better, but that it sounds better. So question is: can people hear the difference? Probably not.. there will be some research about it.

 

[Ra1zel]

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US Navy?

 

[Diable]

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Especially when you can do high res scaling for free on Linux with MPD and the SOX resampler. But it does have a pretty case.

 

[Hapo]

 

[voodooless]

Been there, done that:

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