Pentagonal
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Hi everyone,
I recently download HQPlayer 4 and am completely blown away by the sound quality of the Closed-form-16M (16 million taps) filter when upscaling PCM to DSD256. It's like time slows down and the edge is taken off the music. I can hear so much more with ease.
So far I've been using my Chord Mojo and a Macbook Pro. My computer isn't powerful enough to handle the 16M filter at DSD256 and I'm now looking at a dedicated audio PC.
I can buy a Dell Precision with a multi-Xeon CPU and CUDA-enabled GPU on Craigslist for under $500. I'm concerned it still won't be powerful to handle HQPlayer running at max (with Roon streaming Tidal into it, unless there's a cheaper way).
Then for a DAC, there are many options like a R2R Holo Spring 2 that can do DSD1024 or a $100 used iFi Nano that will do DSD512. Not sure where to spend the money, or whether to look into a USB-I2S interface or other tweaks.
And then I need to buy headphones
Has anyone gone down a path like this already?
Thank you!
I recently download HQPlayer 4 and am completely blown away by the sound quality of the Closed-form-16M (16 million taps) filter when upscaling PCM to DSD256. It's like time slows down and the edge is taken off the music. I can hear so much more with ease.
So far I've been using my Chord Mojo and a Macbook Pro. My computer isn't powerful enough to handle the 16M filter at DSD256 and I'm now looking at a dedicated audio PC.
I can buy a Dell Precision with a multi-Xeon CPU and CUDA-enabled GPU on Craigslist for under $500. I'm concerned it still won't be powerful to handle HQPlayer running at max (with Roon streaming Tidal into it, unless there's a cheaper way).
Then for a DAC, there are many options like a R2R Holo Spring 2 that can do DSD1024 or a $100 used iFi Nano that will do DSD512. Not sure where to spend the money, or whether to look into a USB-I2S interface or other tweaks.
And then I need to buy headphones

Has anyone gone down a path like this already?
Thank you!
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