- Dacs that are better than hqplayer install#
- Dacs that are better than hqplayer pro#
- Dacs that are better than hqplayer software#
- Dacs that are better than hqplayer license#
Dacs that are better than hqplayer pro#
The AMR, big brother to the iDSD PRO costs more than twice its little brother but I was still a little surprised the DP777se edged it out when playing converted DSD as the PRO playing native DSD sounds awesome. The Roon guys must have been listening because I found through many back and forths, including the Lp and 45’s in cases where I also own the vinyl, that the sound quality has gone up tremendously! My dac does not play DSD but with HQPlayer I can convert my DSD files to 176.4khz and it would outperform my iFi iDSD PRO (which is a stellar do everything dac) playing them back natively. I thought, well, yes I have installed several upgrades to Roon lately maybe I should do a comparison of Roon’s native engine to HQPlayer. It mentioned the improved sonics in areas where I thought Roon’s core audio engine lacked, namely being a bit thin and sterile sounding hence my use of HQPlayer as the audio engine. Just last eve as I was reading about the Fern & Roby Tredegar TT and thinking of getting into more audiophile trouble :) when I came upon an award announcement form 12/19 for Roon 1.7.
Dacs that are better than hqplayer software#
I presented the previous information to show that I am as thorough and demanding for my digital as I am for my analog such as aligning my cartridges with the SMARTractor and AnalogMagik software and far more than I’ll mention. The setup has produced some of the best digital music I’ve yet to encounter and yes, although I’m big into analog, tape and records, I have had digital only listening sessions on weekend nights which have lasted for six hours with zero bits of “digital-fatigue” that I so often read about as it relates to others experience with digital. I even took pics of my HQPlayer setup parameters so he could dupe them.
In fact a fellow audiophile buddy heard it and duplicated the setup excepting the dac as he used his existing gear (gotta reign it in somewhere :). Two weeks spent tuning the filter and I had a glorious sound coming from my digital rig (Mac mini with Uptone Audio linear power board and analog fan-kit internally replacing the nasty cheap stock smps along with the JS2 outboard linear supply, iFi iUSB 3, (2) iFi Gemini 3 usb cables, an iFi iPurifier3 and (2) iSilencers (1 is a “+” the other is the first gen) all feeding my AMR DP 777se. Team that with the fact that Roon, could divert its audio stream directly to HQPlayer and it was game over. After installing, tuning and finagling with the HQPlayer software I found it to be the best sounding audio engine I had yet to experience. I do recall that the sonics for PM would change from version to version and I recall reverting several times to previous versions because I was unhappy with changes I perceived in the sonics of subsequent versions.Įnter HQPlayer. I haven’t tried the latest version of PM so I have no clue how it sounds at this point in time. I didn’t buy into Roon at first because for all it’s slick features and convenience, it’s core audio engine simply couldn’t compete with PureMusic (which I much preferred over Amarra and Audirvana). The shear flexibility and fact that I no longer had to bother with maintaining an iTunes library that PureMusic “wrapped” was, well, music to my ears.
Dacs that are better than hqplayer license#
Instead of outputting DSD512 which the T+A DAC8 could process, we set the output to DSD256, the max format the Atlantic accommodates.So I have been a Roon user since about 2017 having purchased the lifetime license which was then $500.00, glad I did. Next we had to adjust the streamer's HQPlayer settings to match the capabilities of the LampizatOr. This whole operation took just a few minutes.
Dacs that are better than hqplayer install#
For Windows we had to unload the driver previously used for the T+A DAC8 and install the appropriate Amanero driver for the LampizatOr. Apple managed better and any DAC is automatically recognized and operational with no need to install a driver. As the SGM2015 server is Windows based, there is always a driver issue. Final destination of the music signal were the Arcadian Audio Pnoe hornspeaker augmented by dual Zu Submission subwoofers. The Atlantic's output went via Nanotec interconnects to an Audio First passive preamp and subsequently via Grimm Audio interconnects to our nCore 1200 power amps. To make the DAC even more comfortable, we used another Polish product, an Audiomica Pearl Consequence USB cable, to connect the DAC to at first the Sound Galleries SGM2015 streamer. We placed the Polish DAC on equally Polish Franc Audio Classic ceramic footers on top of an Acoustic System sandwich board itself sitting on four Solid Tech spring-loaded footers.
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