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I just got it working, so the jury's out on whether there are any sonic nasties, but I won't be able to do much critical listening until tonight. Voila, I have a JRMC front-end for HQPlayer. Using adaptive output rate, it seems to adapt to whatever rate I'm feeding it, even though I specify the input as audio: default/44100/2. In HQPlayer I simply configure the input in Settings to use WASAPI, listening to the output of the Virtual Cable. I can do any DSP I want in JRMC of course, and I do run a few VST plugins for EQ and such. It's pretty simple - I have a zone in JRMC which uses WASAPI to output to the input of the Virtual Cable. I'm using VB Cable:, but I know there are others. All of a sudden it occurred to me I might be able to use a virtual audio cable to pipe out of JRiver and into HQPlayer, and sure enough it works. I'm not sure where exactly this should go - maybe we need a HQPlayer thread.Īnyway, I've been looking at how one can use JRiver as a front-end for HQPlayer and there are some folks using batch files and such janky solutions. But it's like a 5-10% increase in quality and makes the Yggdrasil sound like a more expensive DAC - not just removing something that shouldn't be there, but actually changing the sound for the better. and possibly another round at mastering from 24/96 or similar to RedBook. I can't comment on bass as my system doesn't reproduce bass at the moment (waiting on subs). HQ Player (HQP) is generally considered the gold standard of music up sampling. Less body and density - some people might not like this.Less "grain" and a more liquid, organic sound.Every Roon Ready player is certified by Roon to guarantee the same stellar. They combine simple setup, daily reliability, and support for the highest level of digital audio performance in the industry. Top end is a lot more precise, hi-hats and ride cymbals have clearly delineated attacks rather than a fuzzy halo Roon Ready network players from our partners have Roon’s high-resolution streaming technology built right in.The difference it makes is really noticeable: With Yggrasil A2 I can upsample to at most 176.4kHz (4x).
#Alternative to hqplayer Offline#
I don't stream so it's incredibly easy to offline upsample entire folders of music. With the talk of HQPlayer I thought I'd give it another go, and the easiest way seemed to be using SOX. I'd tried it before a few years ago using SSRC and it seemed to make the sound worse so I thought no more of it.