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Upsampling shifts energy to higher frequency ?

Hi,
Not wanting to dive into digital sampling theory.. I listened to a very nice set-up, probably $100K worth of equipment if not more, from source to speakers. The upsampling digital set-up was the dCS.

Anyway, my feeling was that the upsampling shifts the energy around, so there were more apparent high-frequency content, lot's of air, and the 'chin, chin-ness' was very cool. But underlying it, I felt that the guts and the vocal are less powerful. My over all feeling is that the upsampling seemed to be moving some 'energy' from midrange to the high-range. Then trading off some midrange robustness and power.

The extreme would be a Naim CD setup, where the midrange is strongly emphasized at the expense of high-frequency.

Comment ?


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Topic - Upsampling shifts energy to higher frequency ? - Busybusy 20:19:28 02/21/01 (62)
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