You can vary these via the pull-downs (before playing the track) and I do from time-to-time to suit specific recordings etc. The good stuff in this interface is that middle bar that in this case, shows my current favorite settings (from right-to-left) everything is being output as SDM(DSD), the bit rate is 5644800 (SDM5.6/DSD128), modulator is DSD7 and the oversampling filter is poly-sinc-short.
I don’t bother with this anymore as I pretty much listen to digital the way I listen to vinyl and Miska’s approach is just fine, now that I’ve gotten used to it. When I was un-comfortable with the interface, I’d even use Jriver to get at my music, and then drop it into HQPlayer – clunky but the same end result out of my speakers. The thing to remember is that the lower ‘window’ is the ‘player’ with tree selection of music above and you can drag-and-drop albums, individual tracks, m3u/m3u8 formatted playlists, even Internet flac stream urls (which I haven’t tried) into that box and it will play. I’m an ‘album’ player too but do jump all over the place track-to-track at times and have gotten reasonably comfortable with the interface doing both. The end game interface (as shown above) is pretty sparse and is really designed by a guy who plays ‘albums’, not individual tracks, playlists, mixes, shuffles, etc. This extensive HQPlayer thread covers a lot and has lots of input & troubleshooting from the designer (Jussi/Miska)
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HQPlayer is running on an old AMD Phenom II X4 3.2GHz quad-core/8GBram/64GBssd Windows7 PC (outside audio room).All my digital files (PCM 16/44.1 on up to 24/192 in flac and wav, DSD64 & DSD128 in dsf) live on an unRaid server.Most of the dirty (and boring ? ) details of my digital journey that eventually included HQplayer are covered in another thread but my current state is this great, start another thread and leave this one to those who are interested.
I’m going to ramble on about the DSD side of this player but I should note that most of my digital listening is actually PCM source (all converted to DSD128 on-the-fly) and this player does have extensive PCM upscaling capabilities too – it’s just not something I use so I have little experience with it.Īnd please if you have a problem with this approach, feel it doesn’t matter, it’s all 1s and 0s, nothing matters beyond 16/44.1, etc. I mention this as it happened to me teething problems had me shelving it but a second try with more perseverance has me enjoying digital like I never thought possible and I believe that is mostly down to HQplayer and in my case, what it does with a good DSD capable DAC.
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There is a free trial available for this (draw your own conclusions!) but I’d suggest digging a little into what is needed from a system and setup perspective to get it working first – it’s only a 1 month trial and it’s easy to get frustrated and give up on it before you hear what it can do. There certainly are some negatives which might quickly rule it out for many (and it’s not free) but if musical playback performance is your number-1 priority, it may be worth working through the ‘challenges’ and hopefully, this thread can help in those areas. From a usability, convenience and pretty GUI perspective however, some feel it leaves a lot to be desired. HQPlayer is the work of Jussi Laako and in my opinion, might just be the best player software available from a purely sonic perspective – it really is something special in this regard. There has been a lot of conversation here about this upsampling audio player for Windows, Linux and OS X (Apple), and since I’ve been a very happy user for a while now, I thought I’d start a dedicated thread for it.
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