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You are asking this lazy person???
Seriously, I will give it a try if someone can post for me the typical options people use.
Seriously, I will give it a try if someone can post for me the typical options people use.
Leave it, that's what we are about, honestly and integritySorry guys have to retract the above post.
I started out with a Dell laptop feeding the firewire lead to the TC Impact Twin. I was using a Lenovo with the Forte. After the first test I swapped places with the computers. I was checking other software for playback and upsampling. I swapped as that software was already on the Lenovo. There are some differences, but very, very minor. I ran the initial 48 khz natively in Foobar and it was also clean with low noise a second time on the Lenovo. Somehow the Dell firewire port is causing high jitter and a higher noise floor in the TC Impact Twin. With the Lenovo it is clean. Let people not complain about asynch USB.
So should I simply delete that post or leave it as a cautionary example?
Leave it, that's what we are about, honestly and integrity
Always questioning
People tend to use an iFi Dac for that. I don't remember which model does DSD512, but it's easy to look it up.My DAC supports rates up to DSD 256. Is there a low cost DSD 512 that people advocate for use here?
In HQPlayer you can do convolution and Mch speaker management in both PCM and DSD natively. For ex. you do not need to down-convert from DSD to PCM to apply DSP....
I do not mean also to bring up the whole DSD vs. PCM thing, which has been overblown. I would rather not convert format, up or downsample anything, if possible. Some rave about HQPlayer converting RBCD to hiX DSD. I have not tried it since I am convinced that DSP Room EQ is much more sonically significant than DSD vs. PCM or extreme sampling rates. Also, other DSP features are crucial to me like bass management crossovers and Mch speaker distance correction.
So, my most usual listening mode is DSD64, 128 or 256 playback converted to PCM176 on-the-fly by my faithful JRiver library/player utilizing the Dirac Live plugin. HQPlayer claims to offer some DSP natively in DSD, but I am doubting it can support all my needs and the documentation seems elusive. I am also skeptical that, used just as a player and not uprezzer or DSD converter, it offers any sonic advantage, but it definitely has convenience disadvantages. I also do not think any bias controlled listening tests of HQP have ever been published.
But, any further insights would be welcome.
Thanks. I went ahead and ordered it.People tend to use an iFi Dac for that. I don't remember which model does DSD512, but it's easy to look it up.
EDIT: I believe it's ifi Micro iDSD
Thanks. I was aware of that, but not the Mch support. But, I will stand pat with JRiver/Dirac Live for now.In HQPlayer you can do convolution and Mch speaker management in both PCM and DSD natively. For ex. you do not need to down-convert from DSD to PCM to apply DSP.
In your case you would need to make new FIR filters (e.g. with free applications like DRC or REW) to convolve the signal because, unfortunately, Dirac filters are not exportable.