Roon Bridge vs. HQPlayer?

[fdreed]

Here, I believe, is the relevant post:

HQPlayer and the Directstream. Settings?

There are two types of upsampling in the DS: PCM is upsampled to 352.8k or 384k and 352.8k PCM, 384k PCM and DSD are upsampled to 56.448MHz. No work is saved by pre-upsampling, the upsamplers are always running. FPGA’s just don’t work like the processors people are used to. Everything is running all of the time and you just choose the answers you want… And a general purpose processor isn’t more powerful (at upsampling) than the FPGA. But ignoring the theoretical, upsampling to 352.8k exter…

I think Ted is saying that although upsampling or converting prior to the DAC changes the DAC processing, it doesn’t change the workload. It also doesn’t make much sense to upsample PCM only part of the way.