RE: Using JRiver 19 to convert standard 44.1/16 wav to DSD

Posted by JBen (A) on July 14, 2014 at 01:22:28

In Reply to: Using JRiver 19 to convert standard 44.1/16 wav to DSD posted by Mag4Life on July 12, 2014 at 17:51:06:

By this time, Alan will have gathered much more good experience. I tried it when I was evaluating a Schiit Loki. The unit was about to be returned to Schiit by a friend; I had just 3 days, enough to cover some basics.

Because I use a highly optimized PC, little things become more obvious than on the average good audio PS. The overhead of upsampling on the fly is always present and can be heard. JRiver makes it worse but it can be largely adjusted for, it seems. Worst case would not be "really bad" with most decently set up PCs. So, while I remain "not" a fan of JRiver for playback of classical music, it does work fine overall. (Besides, PCM gets "smoothed out" a nice little bit...hard to describe...and it may have been the Loki.) In any event, they are selling far more expensive but worse sounding PC-based playback out there.

Thus, I would encourage you to try it.

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Topic - Using JRiver 19 to convert standard 44.1/16 wav to DSD - Mag4Life 17:51:06 07/12/14 (18)

I use JRiver MC19 to take everything to double DSD not DOP. - Norm 11:58:08 07/28/14 (0)

RE: Using JRiver 19 to convert standard 44.1/16 wav to DSD - driguy 15:10:40 07/21/14 (4)

RE: Using JRiver 19 to convert standard 44.1/16 wav to DSD - Ed Hsu 22:34:14 07/24/14 (3)

RE: Using JRiver 19 to convert standard 44.1/16 wav to DSD - Tony Lauck 07:32:39 07/25/14 (2)

RE: Using JRiver 19 to convert standard 44.1/16 wav to DSD - Ed Hsu 22:27:56 07/26/14 (1)

RE: Using JRiver 19 to convert standard 44.1/16 wav to DSD - Tony Lauck 07:20:15 07/27/14 (0)

You might want to try HQPlayer - Tony Lauck 08:02:27 07/14/14 (0)

RE: Using JRiver 19 to convert standard 44.1/16 wav to DSD - JBen 01:22:28 07/14/14 (0)

Simply try it - JeffH 17:59:24 07/13/14 (0)

RE: Using JRiver 19 to convert standard 44.1/16 wav to DSD - ahendler 19:16:17 07/12/14 (6)

RE: Using JRiver 19 to convert standard 44.1/16 wav to DSD - Scottson 14:38:30 07/30/14 (5)

RE: Using JRiver 19 to convert standard 44.1/16 wav to DSD - Adriel 15:41:49 10/03/14 (1)

Teac and Loki off topic - jfer 19:52:07 10/03/14 (0)

RE: Using JRiver 19 to convert standard 44.1/16 wav to DSD - kas49 15:32:54 08/02/14 (2)

Interesting ... - Scottson 16:31:45 08/03/14 (1)

RE: Interesting ... - Satie 23:12:55 10/25/14 (0)

Not sure where you're going with this... - StephenJK 18:13:33 07/12/14 (1)

RE: Not sure where you're going with this... - ahendler 19:21:18 07/12/14 (0)

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RE: Using JRiver 19 to convert standard 44.1/16 wav to DSD - JBen 01:22:28 07/14/14 (0)

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