Since last year, Roon users start to adopt HQPlayer and use its powerful DSD upsampling algorithm. There’s also cheaper solutions from other software that offers DSD upsampling too so audiophiles can get the feel of what DSD is like if played from their favorite tracks.

In this year, some big companies are starting to adopt DSD upsampling into their flagship products too. The most recent I’ve heard is Emm Labs releasing DA2 with DSD1024 upsampling and Audirvana promises to bring DSD upsampling into next updates as well.

I also was a an upsampling lover and have a few runs with DSD upsampling from Esoteric and dCS gears. While I loved the smoothness of vinyl-like transients from upsampling, I also felt I missed something from originals at the same time too. That didn’t happen with original SACD playback though.

There used to be a fad about DSD upsampling in last decade. Will DSD upsaming become popular again in this year? Will it encourage producers to bring more DSD files into the market?