![]() ![]() This is of academic interest to me, mostly due to being curious as to how much of dac, amp, tube or overall system “sound” (distortion, noise, harmonics, non-linearities etc.) is responsible for preference vs. some progressively more heavily processed re-masters. A lot of which is down to wanting to see how many people prefer the raw, unadulterated, originals vs. The former is mostly for my own benefit/amusement the latter as a potential pre-cursor to a couple of local listening sessions to see “who likes what” and map that back to the kinds of processing involved and how that gets received. Re-mastering (not mixing - I don’t have track-level masters of anything you’d likely recognize) a handful of well known, well regarded, and musically worthwhile pieces with a variety of processes and effects applied. This is the bit that makes it relevant to THIS thread! ![]() This has meant bringing a fair amount of interesting hardware, such as limiters, compressors, harmonics and saturation processors (much of which is tube-based or has tube-driven core processing) and so on, home.Ĭomparing the hardware software based versions of these boxes - where both are available (e.g. With pending, extensive, travel and little time to make music anymore, I decided to permanently tear down my studio. The extra software, cost, need for (much) more powerful hardware, and the fact that “different” doesn’t necessarily mean “better” or “preferable” means that it has become something I use when evaluating DACs rather than something that has become part of my listening chain. Though not necessarily more or less so than, say, other OS/filtering solutions, nor necessarily more or less preferable. And in that context I do find audible changes with some gear and settings, most notably true NOS DACs (the Holo Audio ones being the most obviously affected). In fact, I generally don’t use it for listening, either. native RAAT, unless down to the HQP/DAC interaction). enabling PEQ, but not applying a curve, remains bit-perfect end-to-end).Īs for HQPlayer … I don’t use it with Roon (no audible benefit vs. It’s provably transparent beyond the changes you deliberately apply (e.g. I will selectively use the Roon DSP features (mostly EQ and crossfeed) when I want EQ or an using a chain that has no native crossfeed capability for some material/mood/gear combinations. ![]()
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