music_man
Headphoneus Supremus
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i don't mean to be a jerk but i am finding out the "best" "player" is something like an aurender. I am tired of all the issues of a pc. apple is not much better really. no war please. i hooked up my aurender and feel the sq is better than jriver. plus do not need all that stupid stuff to clean the usb. true, the aurender has a $10 smps but the data lines are clean which is what is important. i just like seeing the "big picture" on 32" displays but the aurender ultimately does a better job imo. plus i can completely control it 2-way with my urc. jriver does not play very nice with the urc. really meant for jremote.
anyways i found upsampling worse and i do not think you can even do it with the aurender. you plug it into the dac and let it play. granted, this is a high end system to begin with but i am very pleased with the digital sound. i really do not feel like taking out an lp other than to rip it now. i know others will go crazy to get an analog sound viia usb but i am perfectly happy. things move on. like cars today are much different than cars from the 60's. so i think messing with usb to great extent is fruitless. just my opinion. ymmv. with a pc i would use a regen or whatever(and was) with a lps and an aq jb but that is it for me. now i am using nothing but a good cable with the aurender. i just got tired of this. crashes etc. sure, nuc is not very powerful but i certainly do not want fans in here. not going to have a big i7 machine.
i am happy with it. i thank you guys for showing me that upsapling or increasing bit depth in software probably sounds worse.
if anyone has the means i would skip software at this point. so, thats the best software! none! that of course is imo and ymmv.
anyways i found upsampling worse and i do not think you can even do it with the aurender. you plug it into the dac and let it play. granted, this is a high end system to begin with but i am very pleased with the digital sound. i really do not feel like taking out an lp other than to rip it now. i know others will go crazy to get an analog sound viia usb but i am perfectly happy. things move on. like cars today are much different than cars from the 60's. so i think messing with usb to great extent is fruitless. just my opinion. ymmv. with a pc i would use a regen or whatever(and was) with a lps and an aq jb but that is it for me. now i am using nothing but a good cable with the aurender. i just got tired of this. crashes etc. sure, nuc is not very powerful but i certainly do not want fans in here. not going to have a big i7 machine.
i am happy with it. i thank you guys for showing me that upsapling or increasing bit depth in software probably sounds worse.
if anyone has the means i would skip software at this point. so, thats the best software! none! that of course is imo and ymmv.