Do I need to resample?

[adrichardson81]

Hi all

I've just upgraded to a Burson Play Audio v5 from a Sound Blaseter ZXR. Windows is set for 24bit 384kHz, but most of my music is 16bit 44.1kHz FLAC. I was using Resampler-V in Foobar to resample to 384kHz, but am I better off leaving the resampling to the DAC now?

Perceptually, my ZXR sounded better with Foobar handling the resampling, but so far the Burson seems to sound better if Foobar isn't resampling (but that could just be new toy syndrome).

Thanks

 

[Rroff]

IIRC ES9018 DAC in the Burson I think does resampling internally and is better left to its own devices.

(In my experience with the ES series they are highly engineered and best off left to do their thing - almost anything else seems to decrease the quality).

 

[adrichardson81]

Thanks! In that case I'll just leave it to its own devices. Really can't go over how much of an upgrade it is from a pcie sound card...