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SACD vs PCM vs FLAC, WAV, etc
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<blockquote data-quote="GoodEnoughGear" data-source="post: 941009" data-attributes="member: 18304"><p>Using something like HQPlayer gives you much more control over the digital aspects of the playback - essentially moving the up/oversampling and filter processing to the PC from the DAC so you can run whatever sampling rate and filters you want. You then feed that to the DAC at its highest/native rate where it doesn't do any of its own processing. There are people who swear they can hear improvement in doing this. For the geeky people out there it can be interesting to be able to mess with these parameters.</p><p></p><p>But again, you're looking at a 12 core/24 thread processor to be able to run HQPlayer with the 'better' configurations, so this is not for the casual listener IMO. Also HQPlayer leaves a lot to be desired as an audio front end, though you can plump it into Foobar2000 IIRC.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GoodEnoughGear, post: 941009, member: 18304"] Using something like HQPlayer gives you much more control over the digital aspects of the playback - essentially moving the up/oversampling and filter processing to the PC from the DAC so you can run whatever sampling rate and filters you want. You then feed that to the DAC at its highest/native rate where it doesn't do any of its own processing. There are people who swear they can hear improvement in doing this. For the geeky people out there it can be interesting to be able to mess with these parameters. But again, you're looking at a 12 core/24 thread processor to be able to run HQPlayer with the 'better' configurations, so this is not for the casual listener IMO. Also HQPlayer leaves a lot to be desired as an audio front end, though you can plump it into Foobar2000 IIRC. [/QUOTE]
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