Upsampling Is Awsome

Every since I moved to CD’s and then to MP3’s I’ve just not enjoyed music as much as I did in previous years. Being an Electrical Engineer I learned all about sampling and DSP theory and so I took the CD quality “perfect reproduction pitch" at face value and just wrote it off to getting older. But then one day I started doing research on exactly how many A/D’s work and also how MP3 compression works, this starting casting doubts in my mind about the digital audio systems we all jumped on on the 1990’s. Long story short, I think with each compromise along the way (i.e 16 bit sampling verses 24 bit verses 32 bit and 44.Khz verses 96Khz etc) a little more is lost. Neil Young’s Pono project on Kickstarter made me realize I’m not the only one who thinks this… Anyway while digitally recording the original analog sources at maximum rates can’t be replaced, up-sampling and dithering is next best thing. If you have good equipment and a good ear, you will hear a difference. I would compare it to how good image editors offer more than just Brightness and Contrast (volume and basic EQ) they also offer things like highlights, shadows and black point controls in order to help compensate for compression loss. Up-sampling with dithering helps to flatten the audio “image” and presents a better analog signal to your amplifier. Ok enough ramble - works great - do recommend it!

Badroy1 about BitPerfect