I am curious about how the T10 handles upsampling. I understand that DDCs are generally used to improve sound quality through jitter reduction and upsampling—how does the T10 perform upsampling? Can I assume that DDC functionality is built directly into the T10?
The upsampling in the T10 is for PCM only, not DSD. One of the reasons for the upgraded octacore and extra RAM of the T10 was to enable this live upsampling for any audio stream be it local files or from streaming services. It is not really a DDC function, most DDCs do not perform any change in sample rate, usually just extra galvanic isolation and reclocking, with ability to convert to different digital connection types.
Hi, by DDC, do you mean Digital-to-Digital Converters? They convert one digital signal into another, for example, I2S to optical Toslink, and so on. Some types of DACs generally perform oversampling/upsampling, such as delta-sigma DACs (typically those based on ESS or AKM chips), while others, such as many R2R DACs, offer it as an optional feature. The T-10 as a Digital Transport also offers optionally oversampling/upsampling. You can read more about it here: https://blog.eversolo.com/2026/06/system-wide-pcm-upsampling-comes-to-eversolo-t10/
The benefit of in the box upssampling/oversampling is to replicate what many audio nerds use software to do then run that into a DAC with NOS mode turned on,. I'm still undecided on which I prefer, but it's interesting to have the option.
i was playing arround last weekend, i have also a DAC i can switch to NOS (R30) and then i was switchign 16x on and off and comparing.
