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Default Can mp3 quality be improved?

"Chuck Finley" wrote in message
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I bought an Escient music server several years ago when hard drive space
was
still relatively expensive. Most of my music on there is encoded at 320
and
192.


Shouldn't be a problem.

Reviews of DACs typically discuss how they can improve the sound of CD
quality or hi-rez music,


Generally, false claims. Audiophile myths. Dreams, not actualities.
Blatantly false sales pitches. The results of sighted evaluations.

but I'm wondering what effect they would have on compressed music.


No less false.

Would some kind of up-sampling device have to be added to the DAC for
this?


Up sampling, other than that which happens implicitly in modern DACs in
order to facilitate digital filtering, is yet another audiophile myth.