The HQPlayer thread

I looked into PGGB and tried it out. In short, I am very much turned off by their licensing model and they strike me as a sleezy “used car sales” type of group. $1,050 for what is basically a 1 year sub to the software is complete shit. A departure from the responsiveness and community engagement you get from the dev of HQPlayer for around $300. I am constantly seeing updates from HQPlayer and it is fully featured and delivers everything the dev says.

 

Maybe better here than in my profile post:

I want to play around with HQPlayer a bit more than I can with my current Meier DACCORD that only swallows 192 kHz PCM and no DSD.

I’ll probably buy a Holo Cyan 2 eventually, but that will have to wait until some money is coming in.

I thought I might try an SMSL D-6 meanwhile. What do you think? Does it make sense to try with such a cheap DAC or will the clock be too bad for HQPlayer to even matter? (Seems to measure quite good, though.) Note that this isn’t supposed to be my future main DAC, just for playing around a bit.

Has anyone heard it? Or do you have other suggestions?

 

Agreed 100% and more!!!

I am happy to try my best to convince people to pay for hqplayer. So far I managed to convince a few folks, not willing to pay for years and just using the trial version and finally decided to pay up…

For $300 with the license you get way more than just an upsampler app. Miska is super responsive and will provide support and answer any questions I threw at him even outside of hqplayer.

With the new output correction feature he managed to further improve on any Holo dacs and a few other, and the list is promised to grow and will be including denafrips and others. seriously he makes tweaks to "correct" your dac that even the manufacturer did not come up with

Miska created 1 software that takes care of your entire digital audio system front end. All you need is a computer and you don’t even need any steamers. (In my case, I paid for 1 desktop license and that takes care of all 4 of my systems in different rooms, incorporating audiolense settings for each room, connect me to jplay iOS upnp as a centralized control point…)

 

https://community.roonlabs.com/t/best-native-dsd-dacs-for-use-with-hqplayer/132298/71?page=4

not me personally but there are a few guys in this thread above that claims to be really good for the price. One person actually did a whole suite of measurements to confirm it performs very well. (But the same guy now got a cyan 2 and never looked back)

 

Perhaps another suggestion in the lower price tier for playing around with hqplayer dsd upsampling may be the new zen dac 3? I believe it has been updated to now support direct dsd to 512

 

Not available yet, it seems, but might be interesting, too, yes, thanks!

 

Found a used D-6 and ordered. Let’s see how good it is.

 

Been ages since I've been back on SBAF (and even longer away from Head-Fi). But I haven't been out of the hobby. Recently I've been quietly listening to PGGB DSD. BTW, it's not a one year sub. It's permanent. (the name of the product is literally 'perpetual'. I keep getting new updates, too, like the recent PGGB DSD upgrade which was free, and frankly, which was revelatory. Other than the free Foobar plugin there are $350 and $1050 options.

https://www.superbestaudiofriends.o...d-post-effin-ringing-and-shit-like-that.2627/

Go read the thread above started by @ultrabike. One way to solve for the latency of ultra-long filters is to do it offline- which is what PGGB does.