This is of course the "original" version since the PC release came first and only recently ported over to OS X. JRiver Media Center for Windows - I previously looked at this player for Mac. Furthermore, I installed the SACD Decoder plug-in for DSD playback - works great (remember to run the ASIOProxy plugin, configure the ASIO settings, and go to Tools -> SACD to make sure it's not transcoding to PCM).Ģ. Tested with the ASIO driver and WASAPI (event style). For this test, I ran version 1.2.6 with ASIO plugin version 2.1.2. It makes no pretensions about sounding "better" than anything else - just bit-perfect - nothing more, nothing less. In terms of sound "quality", foobar intends to "just work". ABX comparator is great for controlled evaluation of sound quality. I generally use the ASIO plugin for most of my DAC's to ensure bit-perfect data transfer. The dynamic range (DR) plug-in comes in very useful to check for severity of dynamic range compression among different "pressings". foobar2000 - Free, highly configurable, fully functional, a myriad of plug-ins including support for all major file formats, this is my daily workhorse for playback on my Windows machines. Here then are the candidates for the test:ġ. This week, I turned my attention over to the Windows platform. Since my hardware was already set-up with the Mac, I did the software measurements with that platform first ( results here). The fact is, there is so much going on the in the hardware level such as OS and USB buffering, DAC buffering, driver-interface interactions that are just beyond the "reach" of the player software that it really makes no sense IMO for any software developer to make such claims! ![]() ![]() Note that already there have been tests questioning these claims (here's a nice one from Mitch over on the Computer Audiophile between JPLAY vs. Close to a month back, after publishing my TEAC UD-501 results, someone E-mailed me about the use of JPLAY with this DAC.Īlthough I had not tried the program yet, it begs the question, how's it possible that JPLAY could sound any different? JPLAY is described as a bit-perfect player openly discussed in the FAQ but if you look at items 5 & 6, they seem to imply that "timing is everything" and somehow, an optimized software player can make a difference.
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