I have been struggling to find the answer to this question.
I grew up on windows and have spent a lot of time trying to achieve quality music reproduction with the way windows used to screw up the audio stack and resample 44.1 to 48khz. That used to sound terrible and I was glad when i discovered wasapi and they finally introduced exclusive mode.
I recently picked up a nvidia shield pro and was testing this out using plex and kodi and even a trial version of roon.
I found that it was upsampling everything from 44.1 to 48.
I did some more testing and found
flac 2 channel 24/96 plays and the receiver shows it playing at 96kHz
flac 2 channel 24/192 plays and the receiver shows it playing at 192
flac 5.1 channel 24/96 plays and the receiver shows 5.1 96Khz
flac 2 channel 16/44.1 plays but the receiver up samples this to 48Khz
So my question is. Is upsampling bad if done correctly? if that is even possible and any thoughts on how to check?
I grew up on windows and have spent a lot of time trying to achieve quality music reproduction with the way windows used to screw up the audio stack and resample 44.1 to 48khz. That used to sound terrible and I was glad when i discovered wasapi and they finally introduced exclusive mode.
I recently picked up a nvidia shield pro and was testing this out using plex and kodi and even a trial version of roon.
I found that it was upsampling everything from 44.1 to 48.
I did some more testing and found
flac 2 channel 24/96 plays and the receiver shows it playing at 96kHz
flac 2 channel 24/192 plays and the receiver shows it playing at 192
flac 5.1 channel 24/96 plays and the receiver shows 5.1 96Khz
flac 2 channel 16/44.1 plays but the receiver up samples this to 48Khz
So my question is. Is upsampling bad if done correctly? if that is even possible and any thoughts on how to check?