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Hi, all.
Had ripped all my CDs using Apple many years ago and recently decided to make a switch and re-rip all my CDs in FLAC uncompressed format using dwPoweramp.
My music player currently is Sony Music Center, as I recently purchased a Sony ZX300 Walkman portable player.
I thought I would use the Sony Music Player for listening on the computer, also, via a PS Audio headamp and an incoming PS Audio DAC but I've noticed that the Sony Music Center sometimes skips or chirps or makes a distortion-like sound. I initially thought the rip was bad but when I take the track in question back a few seconds the sonic mishap won't happen, which leads me to believe something with the Sony isn't quite working as it should.
Which got me to thinking...
Is there such a thing as an "audiophile" music player for windows? I saw Media Monkey and something Bee mentioned but am unsure if any one is better than another.
If you know of a quality player, please let me know.
Thanks,
Mamoru
"Man, that mouse is Awesome." - Kaemon (referring to Jerry, of Tom and Jerry fame)
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I use Foobar2000 with a WASAPI component set to "push" mode. This sounds fine. I know it's "bit-perfect" since my DAC picks up DoP streams as DSD; any change to the stream along the way and DoP fails.
Depends on the quality of your system, but if you are using USB, I have found Amarra to be best compared to Audirvana, Jriver and Foobar.
Using Ethernet I have found Linn Kinsky/Minimserver/BubbleUPnP to sound better than Jriver, Roon and Twonky. Lumin might be a contender.
By better I mean more detailed, more live, better blackness, more 3D. More enjoyable to listen to.
have you tried hysolid?
https://www.hysolid.com/
it sounded better to me than the upnp stuff. Its the timing really and the blackness.
Cutting razor sounding violins
If you have the right driver for your sound device, or can use the WASAPI or similar options.
Many like JRiver because you can also use JRemote on an ipad or other device as a remote control.
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Cutting razor sounding violins
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I'll take a look into your suggestions.
Cheers,
Mamoru
"Man, that mouse is Awesome." - Kaemon (referring to Jerry, of Tom and Jerry fame)
Plus a few others. Depends on your wants and needs.
Many "audiophiles" use J River. MediaMonkey is very good too and the free version may be all you need.
I think Jplay is also a Win product. There are many.
There is Audirvana+ for windows 10. I use the Mac version and it is really good. I use it mostly for streaming from Qobuz and Tidal, but also have some hi-res DXD on my hard drive. It works with it all. Read the details in the link.I should mention that it isn't free. I bought it after I tried it as well as Roon. I found Roon too fussy for my taste.
Edits: 03/30/19
I had a similar post to yous a few weeks ago and had some good responses, but nothing I hear compelled be to change from Foobar.
For me, the principal Foobar drawback is its inability to handle two or more separate libraries, (i.e. one for Classical, one for Jazz, etc.).
Also, Foobar doesn't do metadata retrieval for tagging which some players claim to do. In my case as mainly Classical listener, metadata databases' information is so highly incomplete or inconsistent that there is no tagging solution that doesn't require a lot of work.
I love the music of Dmitri Shostakovich ...
I also use Foobar2000.While it doesn't offer different libraries, you can create selective views of the library and give each of those views its own tab.
In my case I have one tab for '[Popular] Music', one for 'Classical', and one for 'Lectures'.
Edits: 05/09/19
FWIW, I use Foobar 2000 with ASIO.
ASIO, KS, DS, and WASAPI can all output bit-perfect streams, but at least for me, ASIO has proved by far the most reliable when listening to media of different bitrates.
Some of the others wouldn't reliably get the hardware to auto-switch, and I'd have to go into the driver config tool and manually indicate the current bitrate. ASIO works 100%.
IIRC, this was more of a factor with the E-MU 0404, but it also doesn't hurt with the Meridian Explorer.
nt
I love the music of Dmitri Shostakovich ...
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