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Hi,
In his recent review of the Topping D70s DAC, amirm wrote :
"Since AKM DAC chips don't have a resampler like ESS DACs do, performance suffers a bit with synchronous digital inputs like Coax and Toslink"
Just would like to have a simple explanation about the "resampling" thing in ESS DAC's and the absence of that in AKM DAC's.
Does that mean that ESS "manipulate" the sound that it is fed with to make it "sound better" ?
I thought if you "upsample" or "downsample" or "resample" stuff, then you necessarily add/substract information from original signal... Thus the sound cannot be as it is meant to be.
Or, as this refers to "synchronous digital inputs" does that mean that the input signal coming in 44.1 is resampled to 48khz because that is what the DAC accepts (or the other way round) ?
But I admit total lack of knowledge here... and total lack of scientific background :-(
So if someone can care to try to explain in really simple words...
And if that question should be posted somewhere else, I'll gladly do so.
Regards... and merry christmas
In his recent review of the Topping D70s DAC, amirm wrote :
"Since AKM DAC chips don't have a resampler like ESS DACs do, performance suffers a bit with synchronous digital inputs like Coax and Toslink"
Just would like to have a simple explanation about the "resampling" thing in ESS DAC's and the absence of that in AKM DAC's.
Does that mean that ESS "manipulate" the sound that it is fed with to make it "sound better" ?
I thought if you "upsample" or "downsample" or "resample" stuff, then you necessarily add/substract information from original signal... Thus the sound cannot be as it is meant to be.
Or, as this refers to "synchronous digital inputs" does that mean that the input signal coming in 44.1 is resampled to 48khz because that is what the DAC accepts (or the other way round) ?
But I admit total lack of knowledge here... and total lack of scientific background :-(
So if someone can care to try to explain in really simple words...
And if that question should be posted somewhere else, I'll gladly do so.
Regards... and merry christmas