Monarchy Audio DIP/Upsampler Combo

Upsampling and I have also found the clock in the combo really helps the Touch.

Cerrot, So in your opinion, if my Cary Pro Dac section has upsampling then the Monarchy would not be a benefit ?

Based on my experiences with Monarchy DIPs (including non-upsampling ones), as well as reviews/discussion forums, I think it is the re-clocking and jitter reduction that these units do that is responsible for most of the improvements. Hence, improvement is often not noticeable with DACs that have very good jitter rerection, like the Benchmark mentioned above.

Agree with Arni and, as for the benefit of the upsampling, if your dac does upsample, you probably would not experience the benefit I did, but, I'm not sure if it makes a difference to your dac accepting a 44.1k signal and than upsampling or accepting a 96k signal.

Again, with the Monarchy, my Berkley receives a 96k signal, and that was a hugh improvement compared to the dac w/o the Monarchy.

Ozzy, I was just at the Chord website. Are you sure your dac upsamples, or does it just accept higher sample rate signals? (big difference).