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I'm no kind of expert on DAC design or even on measurable performance comparisons between models, but Benchmark DACs have been the reference DAC of Stereophile's John Atkinson for years. So, it's unfortunate that he and perhaps other DAC reviewers never happened upon this article, or presumably never found its assertions especially significant if they did
https://benchmarkmedia.com/blogs/application_notes/intersample-overs-in-cd-recordings?_pos=1&_sid=0eeb1f150&_ss=r , at least after the Loudness Wars began.
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war

Assuming intersample overs distortion is only presently in CD recordings, I don't presently stream high res music nor do I own many SACDs, but even at stores that do sell 24-bit downloads by major artists their catalogs are hardly complete. https://www.hdtracks.com/#/artist/The%20Beatles
https://www.hdtracks.com/#/album/6008a730f08b3e5a17bf3918 , either because of legal or technical quality issues of whatever analog or digital masters exist, or because they tragically may not be available at all for re-digitizing. https://www.hdtracks.com/#/artist/Sergio%20Mendes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Universal_Studios_fire

But DAC owners and those shopping for new ones, who likely have sizable CD collections, should know that industry engineers have concurred that intersample overs distortion is audible. https://gearspace.com/board/mastering-forum/1401406-intersample-clipping-audible.html

On the hardware side, for all any knows this may be the only DAC which actually does reduce IS distortion.
https://www.stereophile.com/content/benchmark-dac3-hgc-da-preamplifier-headphone-amplifier

That's because at least as of 2017, as "arve" laments here, IS distortion reduction has yet to be included among Stereophile's DAC performance measurements.  https://www.stereophile.com/content/benchmark-dac3-hgc-da-preamplifier-headphone-amplifier

On the software side, VLC, Roon, HQ and other free or pay players may or may not have filters which can satisfactorily reduce IS distortion in commercially issued music CD recordings.

Thus, you may knowingly or not be able to get better sound out of your CDs, depending on what DAC and/or player you use that can reduce IS distortion.
 
But can JRiver do this? If not, then I strongly request that its developers insure that it can in the very next version.

 

 

[mattkhan]

this has been handled by MC for a long time - https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,82025.0.html

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this has been handled by MC for a long time - https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,82025.0.html

Thanks.