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Originally Posted by bruno2009
I`ve played MQA tracks up to 192 kHz and can`t say that I dislike them at all (actually, I feel the higher the sampling rate is the closer it gets to what I`m used to from my analog/vinyl setup). Really trying to understand the technical backgrounds here - why is a higher sampling rate lossy over 44.1 kHz and why should it sound inferior?
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The higher the sample rate fed into your McIntosh, the less aggressive it's oversampling filters will be. Or at least that's the theory.
You might like the MQA upsampling filters applied in the Aries and or hi-res more for this very reason. Who knows what filtering McIntosh does, their support contacts are pretty much clueless when it comes to digital so asking them is pointless.
If you want to understand technical stuff behind MQA go to the Computer Audiophile forum. You will have to wade through the disdain, but the reverse engineered details can be found there. MQA details from any other source is just repeating the BS (Bob Stuart) marketing.