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PGGB V9 — Precision Optimized Engine and New Capabilities

PGGB V9 introduces the Precision Optimized Upsampling Engine as the new default (the previous Nyquist-Shannon engine remains available for offline ...

PGGB V9 — The Biggest Change Since PGGB Began

PGGB has always been about one core idea: take the heavy lifting of high-accuracy reconstruction out of the DAC and do it better, earlier, with fa...

OPTO•DX on Batteries - A Testimonial

My OPTO•DX customers will often ask for a power-supply recommendation. OPTO•DX requires nominal DC 12V (11V - 15V acceptable) at ~ 200mA so most au...

PGGB•IT! + Azure Testimonial

Thanks to Ruud L., Amsterdam for this Testimonial I was always finetuning and looking to get the best out of my audio chain hardware. So...

PGGB V8: A Monumental Leap Forward!

PGGB’s continuing evolution in uncovering every hidden detail in your audio recordings has just taken a massive leap with Version 8 (V8).Ā Since la...

WaveTheory Discusses PGGB vs HQP

YouTube audio podcaster WaveTheory just completed a four-part series discussing software upsampling; specifically comparing PGGB and HQP. I applaud...

PGGB•IT! Azure Integration for (Legal) High Power Upsampling

The upcoming (March) release of PGGB•IT! adds version-wide support for offloading PGGB processing to Azure compute instances. This lets you leverag...

OPTO•DX Customer adds SRC-DX to M-Scaler BNC Input

Thanks to Daniel G., USA for his Testimonial My journey with AudioWise has been an exercise in discovering additional depth and layers of sou...

Consider the Astell & Kern SP3000M for your SecondaryPrimary Sound System

Many audiophiles have multiple sound systems, each in its own listening space. The primary system is for critical listening, typically loudspeaker-...

2026 — The Year DSD2048 Finally Drops!

With the recent launch of the Gustard U26 DDC, playback of DSD2048 is now possible to high quality DACs. As I have mentioned in previous blogs, ...

Why DSD-to-Analog Playback Can Provide the Best Sound

Digital audio production uses PCM for unsurpassed quality and flexibility for recording and editing. 32-bit floating point PCM at 192kHz sampling o...

DSD vs PCM vs Cyan2 vs Mojo2

For several years, now, I have been presenting at trade shows using Chord product and PCM content. I've been a Chord fanboy since before Dave was l...
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