Botty is simply telling the truth. He's a valued, long term member of AK with 29,000+ posts. You are a recent addition with views that you like to ram down everyone's throats (MQA for example?). Views that are often polarizing and lack technical substance.
There is no value in up-sampling existing 16/44, 24/96 etc unless you have poor quality LPFs in your digital gear. The most you can get is the same performance, often it is worse. There is no more information created and depending on the SRC, information can be lost.
If you have a huge mix of digital content in various sample rates, then there can be some justification to up-sample it all if the LPFs in your D/As are optimized more for the higher Fs. That can result in lower sampling rate content not receiving the correct LP filtering it should, but again, that is only in inexpensive or poorly designed digital gear.
I see botrytis statements as outright thread crapping and usual trolling.
My opinion of MQA is from first hand listening experience. I feel MQA is the future; But unfortunately MQA's a hard pill for critics to swallow. Many audio enthusiast, equipment manufacturers, and large record companies apparently recognize the benifits of MQA by supporting or endorsing the newfound technology. I find MQA to be very pleasing to the ear and therefore openly voice my honest opinion. I feel there's an outright suppression of speech in many of these “audiophile” forums when it comes to that topic, and I’m not one to be suppressed.
Digital upsampling does do something for video and audio in my experience. The OP may only want to cost effectively enhance his audio quality and feels digital upsampling is the ticket. Not everyone listens with a slide rule and calculator and some of us may have “inexpensive or poorly designed” digital gear that may require digital upsampling to better our listening experience; Which doesn't make us any less of an audio enthusiast.
I don’t mean to offend you or any long term AK members, but by you accusing me of “ramming MQA down people’s throats” was offensive to me. I try to counteract all the unjustified negative publicity TIDAL along with MQA receives by openly voicing my opinion and enjoyment of the newly owned streaming service and the emerging technology MQA. To some readers my somewhat aggressive post may appear as crusading, advertising, or spamming, but promise you it is not. I have been attacked since day one for embracing TIDAL with MQA; Thus triggering my instinctual fight or flight responses, and my flying privileges have long been revoked.
Isn’t AK a place where people come to learn, share their audio experiences, express their joy of high fidelity music, and encourage would be audiophiles? Or is AK a place for people with condescending attitudes and/or ridiculously overpriced priced equipment to discourage those, with new ideas or that happen to be on a budget with less expensive entry level equipment, from pursuing high fidelity audio reproduction?
For this hobby and the high fidelity business to thrive we must all come together and stop the needless bickering over formats and equipment. We should enjoy any beneficial technological breakthrough that science brings us; Rather than being overly defensive and making unjust paranoid like claims towards things we may fail to fully understand.
