brckmrphy
New Head-Fier
I second that mickey. Onkyo HF player is good.
Yaay, the legend is back in a place he has no business. To save us from our own delusions!! Thank you warrior for fighting against the evils of snake oil and protecting us and our wallets (from free upgrades like tweaking music player softwares).Just your friendly reminder that the concept of magnitude does exist. And so does the notion of hearing threshold. Manuel doesn't seem to care as he digs deeper and deeper into what starts to look like audio paranoia, but the readers might.
Is it a weakness of the raal or of the jot r? Of course price is a serious consideration, but you can try other more powerful amps and see if things go better. I've seen a lot of dynamics breathe new life with better amps.The main weakness with the Raals is the lack of headroom the driver has in the low end before it clips.
I hope you're using hqplayer convolver or some DAW in high precision for doing the eq. A normal player wouldn't cut it , and would truncate too much.I have found that by turning the baffle compensation off and then using EQ to bump up the bass in a more gentle manner(less boost + sub 30hz roll off) gives you back a great deal of headroom and I can listen to most any song at satisfyingly loud levels.
I'm using an RME adi-2 pro as my DAC currently and it has an incredibly nice USB implementation. I have a schiit wyrd, which I know is not supposed to be in the same league as a lot of the nice usb reclockers, but with the RME it doesn't seem to improve anything. I'm wondering if the improvements I might get from using a streamer/endpoint would only come from them being lower noise, since the RME seems to do such a good job of reclocking the signal and rejecting jitter on it's own.
Is it a weakness of the raal or of the jot r? Of course price is a serious consideration, but you can try other more powerful amps and see if things go better. I've seen a lot of dynamics breathe new life with better amps.
I hope you're using hqplayer convolver or some DAW in high precision for doing the eq. A normal player wouldn't cut it , and would truncate too much.
you should try WASAPI in uLilith
I agree Foobar is not very good for fidelity. Even Winamp does a better job. Here is my current top music players downloadable for free and the first one does a spectacular job!
1. JetAudio
2. Winamp/Zoom player
3. MHC player
And then you have many including Foobar indeed. Not going to bother at this point.
Go at oldversion.com and download the popular version of JetAudio. Give me some feedback what you think. By the way I have asio/wasapi uninstalled.
Try "Russian Album Player" or "PlayPCMWin"
I like winyl and ulilith.
I'm unsure how you came to that conclusion. No filter is right because we have chopped off the information anyway, and Nyquist condition is a limit tending to infinity condition. Reality is we window it and different windows are technically different. But chances are, the dac you have also has a sinc oversampler, and often likely to be less precise than the ones generated through hqplayer. Also hqplayer does not have just one sinc filter, there is flexibility to choose a lot of filters depending upon your preferences.HQplayer would push human sound in front of you and then eliminate all the other background sounds. That's the most failure problem, Sinc filter not always right. you can not just digitalize all the recorded audio samples, and then treat them to Fourier. At least, Foobar 2000 gives you the most authentic enjoyment