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In Reply to: RE: HQPlayer posted by AbeCollins on January 27, 2016 at 06:46:31
Abe:
Thanks, bought a very nice DAC that I intend to stick with.
Small inconvenience to cross the threshold to very good performance.
Larry
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If you are not adverse to using a Win PC, you can purchase a powerful PC for much less than a comparable MAC.
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Bob:
Thanks.
I am looking at a Windows machine now because of costs.
If any one is following this thread Jussi Laako thought i5 2.6GHz was about the minimum for transcoding PCM to DSD 128 and that 8GB of RAM was sufficient. Sometimes I forget to go to the source, helps a lot.
Larry
I can confirm Jussi's requirements, having a dual core i5 some years old. It will transcode PCM to DSD128, which is as fast as my DAC goes. It will even do some digital room correction and it will do all of this without stutter. However, when doing DRC and upsampling to DSD128 the computer has to be 100% dedicated to audio to ensure there is no stutter. This computer runs out of capability if one tries to perform DRC on DSD64 and upsample the result to DSD128.
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
You don't need much RAM to play HQPlayer. It uses only about 100 MB of RAM when converting 16/44.1k PCM to 5.6M DSD128 on Windows. So you can be happy with 8GB of RAM. Processor performance is much more important. Take the 2.6 GHz i5 as minimum for 44.1k to DSD128.
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