How do i set up a hqplayer windows 10#
How do i set up a hqplayer pro#

HQPlayer is processing-hungry and I included the nVidia GTX 1080 GPUВ above since this is significant as HQPlayer allows one to offload much of the DSD conversion to the GPU which I activated for these tests. Remember I used various off-line PCM-to-DSD conversion tools and realtime JRiver 24 in that previous post, so feel free to compare.

How do i set up a hqplayer windows 10#

Notice the setup is the same as the recent Oppo UDP-205 DSD playback postВ - using my Intel i7-3770K computer at stock 3.5GHz base speed up to 3.9GHz Turbo, 16GB DDR3 RAM Windows 10 PC.

How do i set up a hqplayer pro#

Intel i7-3770K CPU + nVidia GTX 1080 GPU Windows 10 computer -> 16' generic USB -> Oppo UDP-205 as DAC -> generic 6' XLR -> RME ADI-2 Pro FS ADC -> generic USB -> Win 10 i5 measurement laptop

For the tests today here is the general hardware set-up: The demo will run for 30 days, but 30 minutes at a time - enough time to try out, listen and run samples through the audio analyzer to get an idea of what it's doing. The tests today are done with a recent version of HQPlayer - 3.25.2 available as a demoВ (I see that there is now a 3.25.3 build available at the time of publication). Well, after all these years, and now with the requisite pieces of hardware at my disposal for a more thorough evaluation (reasonably fast CPU/GPU system, ADC capable of >192kHz, DAC capable of DSD512), it's time to have a peek 'under the hood' at what it does. In fact, back in early 2017 when I wrote about Roon 1.2, I mentioned installing HQPlayer but never got around to actually writing about it. It has certainly been on my list of items to look into. In this way, HQPlayer has been a bit of a mystery and I know some folks have had difficulty getting it running over the years. While admittedly I don't follow HQPlayer chatter closely, I don't recall reading about specific settings and what they do other than opinions about the sound quality. There has been a good amount of talk about the sound quality of the upsampling algorithms and some swear by the sonic differences the program makes.

While there is a GUI for playback as well as a sophisticated network transport architecture, it's the upsampling and PCM-to-DSD features that are the program's claim to fame. Over the years, no doubt many computer audio users have heard or perhaps tried using HQPlayer Desktop from Signalyst for music playback.