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In Reply to: RE: Mastersound (MQA) on Tidal streaming posted by TubeDriver on January 05, 2017 at 15:52:44
Meridian has tons of money and has a new toy for us. You get better sound and they get more money....nothing wrong with that....win/win. Trouble is they have to remaster every title and then you can only play the ones remastered for the "benefit". What if you could make any file/title at any sample rate sound way, way better? Well folks, it already exists. It is called HQPlayer. Please research this little known audio player and find out why those who listen to it upsampling to DSD512 are ecstatic. According to many who have compared, this player software can completely transform your entire collection. The player needs lots of computing horsepower so you must have a high powered Windows 10 computer to run this software and along with it most like to run Roon as it is more ergonomic in function (they run together perfectly....you use Roon to file and select the songs and then Roon sends the info to HQplayer to play). The higher you upsample the better the sound. Many say going from DSD256 to DSD512 upampling is a bigger jump then DSD128 to DSD256. However, very few DACs can do DSD512 but more are coming. The incredible Gustard x20U pro that I am working up mods on will do DSD256 via usb but can do DSD512 via I2S. Singxer (another Chinese company) will have an updated digital converter that will pass DSD512 via I2S.....allowing all Gustard owners to hear the glory of DSD512 upsampling via HQplayer. There are other player software programs that upsample (including a soon to be updated Roon program)....but so far, everyone says that HQplayer sounds best. I personally have not heard this but am following it intensely because it may hold the real key to amazing sound. One fellow has kludged his Gustard to get DSD512 from his computer and says that his modded Gustard sounds overall better than his $20,000 turntable...super cartridge and phono stage playing the disc versus a 16/44 file upsampled to DSD512 with HQplayer. I believe him. I believe all the others that are saying things similar. Obviously, this is not super easy to attain (is anything worthwhile easy?.....well love is....just breath). You have to have a powerful Windows computer, a DSD512 DAC and tweak, tweak tweak......but from what I have read......this is Nirvana....all your files sounding like you have never hear them....outrageous.
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I use HQ Player and I'm not even a believer in DSD. ;-)
(Hint: It also up-samples to 24/192 PCM.)
Is there an HQ Player for Macs or is it only for PC's
Alan
System requirements, Mac OS X version:
OS X version 10.9 or later
Audio interface with CoreAudio or ASIO drivers
Display adapter with OpenGL support
Link below:
Thanks
Alan
up-sampling 44.1/16 files to DSD 512 and running to a Singxer SU-1 USB to I2S converter then to the new Gustard ES9028 DAC.
I think inmate 'Mikel' is doing that with HQPlayer and maybe a Lampizator DAC of some kind claiming sonic equivalence to the $40K Trinity R2R Ladder DAC with 16 PCM1704U-K's running in parallel, one per bit?
Maybe not? Just hearsay?
I going to get the Singxer for my main system anyway as the HDMI I2S has dip switches which allow matching to the Audio-GD HEMI I2S input.
The Gustard DAC is less that $1000 and I have a third location which is where a new computer will soon be located so...
Only expense is the Gustard DAC and perhaps more computer power for high rates of up-sampling that would otherwise be needed.
Must be able to do this with an Apple as the wife is being weaned off of Windows because I can no longer answer her Windows related questions.
Might do the Meridian thing while I'm waiting for Singxer to get the firmware update out for DSD 512 support. Not buying now and trying to figure out how to do a firmware update later as with the Audio-GD firmware thing that I missed out on.
Sounds interesting. I do things a little different because I don't like ESS chips. Over detailed. I am also not a fan of DSD. The two major improvements I have made to my Master & is The Singxer USB converter and the Intona Galvanic isolater.
Alan
The new ES9028/9038 may well be a completely new animal and, at least in theory, DSD may be a better, easier format to decode anyway, or not.
And Channel Classics have some of the best recordings in their catalog I have yet to hear, so there is that.
Having never heard DSD 256 let alone files up-sampled to DSD 512, who knows?
Not me.
Plus one bad sounding DAC in the house won't kill me, especially at only about $900 delivered.
Does that mean I have to buy one of these?
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