But since each filter is different they will have a unique effect in what a person will hear. Some folks use different filters with different kinds of music (classical, rock, etc.) Others use the same filter regardless of music. There are a lot of filters available to use. So from the objective point of view, Roon and HQP will sound different as a result of the filters. Those filters affect how the music will sound. Yet, even if you are using the same DSP correction filters and upsampling mode on both products, HQP also utilizes filters developed by HQP that are not available in Roon. They also allow you to use customer-developed DSP like room correction. Thanks in advance for the insight.I am not sure that you can easily do an apple to apple comparison between the two.īoth Roon and HQP allow you to do upsampling. Curious to know if HQ Player will improve sound quality in this configuration or only if upsampling or DSP is involved.
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I use Roon by itself currently and do not do any upsampling as my DAC does this as part of its processing. Please discuss the sonic differences experienced by adding HQ Player to Roon. This signal is feed out of the server to the DAC and the T+A also uses a completely different signal path for DSD, which was developed in house.
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Also I would have preferred to use Roon completely by itself.īy the way, all digital files get up-sampled to DSD512/48 which is 24.6 Mhz.
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I actually was hoping that I could no longer hear a difference because HQPlayer is more demanding on my hardware so I was hoping to be able to stop using it. They are close but it became apparent quickly that HQPlayer was a bit fuller, a bit more detailed all in all a bit more musical and more enjoyable. With Roon 1.8 they made it much easier to switch zones back and forth and therefore it was fairly easy to compare Roon to Roon with HQPlayer.
HQPLAYER PLAY AT ACTUAL RATE DRIVERS
Of course within the HQPlayer software you setup the DAC drivers to use and what filters you like, etc. I setup HQPlayer as a zone (or whatever they currently call it in Roon). I use Roon controller on my Microsoft Surface.
HQPLAYER PLAY AT ACTUAL RATE PC
I use HQPlayer and Roon Core on my PC server.