Streaming resolution

Any higher sample rates require harsher filters, and that has a negative impact on the ‘natural sound’ my system can produce in abundance. 

not necessarily... just better filters that more suited to the chosen sample rate... 

@tpt 

@seymour-krelborn 

My understanding is that as the sampling rate goes up, the less steep (less harsh) the filtering needs to be, to avoid aliasing.

yes that is understanding that leads to the whole the idea of oversampling the digital signal prior to conversion

Hardly anybody has mentioned Direct Stream Digital (DSD) which as a minimum samples 64 times more frequently than CD, at about 2.8-MHz.  It requires the gentlest of low pass filters to get rid of MHz noise.

My Reavon universal disk player (closely related to the Oppos but with different dacs) converted DSD to CD quality when using its internal dacs.  The sound quality was so bad, I thought there was a fault but it was a poor design using Burr-Brown dacs that could not natively process DSD.

@richardbrand 

goid to know.  Do you have any experience with Magnetar players?