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    HateDis650 (oh God the dark side please don’t)

    Thanks. The ones I mentioned do need a decent amp. R70x should work fine with any amp that pairs well with hd650, asking from my friends. Srh940...
    Post by: dietwater, May 11, 2021 in forum: Headphones
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    HateDis650 (oh God the dark side please don’t)

    Well to me shure srh940 sounds better than hd6x0 on any index I can think of. At a similar or lower price. There are people who prefer cd900 to...
    Post by: dietwater, May 11, 2021 in forum: Headphones
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    HateDis650 (oh God the dark side please don’t)

    I feel hd6x0 hype is overblown having heard it multiple times on different gear 1. Scalability. Almost any decent dynamic driver (including my...
    Post by: dietwater, May 11, 2021 in forum: Headphones
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    Computer Audio Players

    Been tweaking the SFS settings in xxhighend. Buffer at 4096, xq1 at 8 so it feeds 32768 samples to the 32768 sample buffer on my dac. X1 is at 20,...
    Post by: dietwater, May 6, 2021 in forum: Computer Audiophile: Software, Configs, Tools
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    XXHighend?!

    I tried it recently. It's a pain to set up but sounds fantastic. Made my write up in the computer player softwares thread....
    Post by: dietwater, Mar 25, 2021 in forum: Computer Audiophile: Software, Configs, Tools
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    Computer Audio Players

    I finally got around to trying XXhighend (version 2.1.0) yesterday, and I feel I should have done this months ago - it sounds absolutely...
    Post by: dietwater, Mar 20, 2021 in forum: Computer Audiophile: Software, Configs, Tools
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    Computer Audio Players

    There are members for both school of thoughts. It depends a lot on the chain, system, and software. If you had read the last 3-4 pages you'll...
    Post by: dietwater, Feb 15, 2021 in forum: Computer Audiophile: Software, Configs, Tools
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    Computer Audio Players

    Did a few more experiments. I first tried xxhighend but couldn't get it to work properly in my system. Since music playback generally improved...
    Post by: dietwater, Dec 21, 2020 in forum: Computer Audiophile: Software, Configs, Tools
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    Computer Audio Players

    I actually set my music files to read only after making all basic tagging. I haven't really touched ratings settings yet though.
    Post by: dietwater, Nov 1, 2020 in forum: Computer Audiophile: Software, Configs, Tools
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    Computer Audio Players

    Update: also I can hear noise band whenever I have content around 8khz when using PlayPCMwin, I think this also affects the low end a little,...
    Post by: dietwater, Sep 19, 2020 in forum: Computer Audiophile: Software, Configs, Tools
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    Computer Audio Players

    Well I guess I was a little quick to conclude PlayPCMwin lacks impact, it was actually the secondary system, mainly the dac I used that was...
    Post by: dietwater, Sep 19, 2020 in forum: Computer Audiophile: Software, Configs, Tools
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    Computer Audio Players

    Thanks I'll check them. I'm planning to code my own headless player in Linux for my Allo sparky, with certain features I'm interested to...
    Post by: dietwater, Sep 18, 2020 in forum: Computer Audiophile: Software, Configs, Tools
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    Computer Audio Players

    I have finally got around to trying PlayPCMWin, Smallplayer, Ulilith and JetAudio. There is a change to my system during this analysis. Earlier I...
    Post by: dietwater, Sep 18, 2020 in forum: Computer Audiophile: Software, Configs, Tools
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    XXHighend?!

    Without the oversampling, hqplayer sounds very much like any other bass library based player - musicbee, winyl etc. It's mainly glare from windows...
    Post by: dietwater, Sep 16, 2020 in forum: Computer Audiophile: Software, Configs, Tools
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    XXHighend?!

    Where did you get the free demo for it? I'm interested to try. I've tried hq player and wtfplay. Both had different pros and cons, I liked the...
    Post by: dietwater, Sep 16, 2020 in forum: Computer Audiophile: Software, Configs, Tools