In Reply to: What is an "NOS DAC"? posted by Mike K on November 16, 2023 at 07:34:07:
Many (most?) current DACs oversample (upsample) automatically. You feed it a 16/44.1 from a CD or CD quality streaming service and the DAC converts it, internally and automatically, to something higher, such as 16/88.2. Some DAC upsample all the way to DSD.Even less expensive DACs using cheap DAC chips do this.
Very few current DACs do not over sample the data stream.
Edits: 11/16/23
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- NOS = Non-Oversampling in DAC speak - creativepart 09:05:34 11/16/23 (1)
- Many (most?) current DACs oversample - Roseval 10:36:02 11/16/23 (0)