HQPLAYER is much more than upsampling. It is transcoding and it uses filters and modulators to extract information buried deep in the recordings to add inner detail, enhance dimensionality, and increase dynamics. It also has features for convolution and with its pipeline architecture you can customize it to get results that meet your needs. The use of HQPLAYER is far better than accepting what you are served and then complaining that you don’t like it; HQPLAYER is the tool to do something about it.
Can digital get to vinyl sound and at what price?
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HQPLAYER is much more than upsampling. It is transcoding and it uses filters and modulators to extract information buried deep in the recordings to add inner detail, enhance dimensionality, and increase dynamics. It also has features for convolution and with its pipeline architecture you can customize it to get results that meet your needs. The use of HQPLAYER is far better than accepting what you are served and then complaining that you don’t like it; HQPLAYER is the tool to do something about it.
It is all explained in the AccurateRip pages. You are systematically using small details and semantics to perpetuate the discussion, I am not interested in going on sideways. CD players read exactly the bits that were written in the CD, Accuraterip shows all CDs of the same recording have the same bit content - all your objections to CD bit content were addressed, nothing to add.
And be sure that I never hesitated to ask help to other knowledgeable members in this forum in this particular subject with success, but see no reason to ask yours considering your CD bits are not trusty.
I agree , I have listened to some dsp and all of them were worse to consider, Romy also confirm digital processing change the sound in wrong direction.
I do not know the reason but maybe digital processing (even at high frequency) increase the quantization noise .
the problem is many audio systems does not show the negative effect of digital processing.
The key is having a high performance audio system before any judgment
I am distributor of Weiss Products in Iran and I have listened to all of DSP filters in Weiss DAC502 .
All digital filters or any kind of digital processing change the sound and if you have high quality AAD CD albums and a high performance Audioplayback then you can see how digital filters change the sound.
I used a laptop with better power supply(modified linn dirac), foobar in ram disk mode 64 GB for 10 years. ripping software included on the same level as eac in paranoid mode. I've tried a number of solutions and have come to the conclusion that I will not change it anymore. If I want to change the sound, I change the dac 6-7 pieces available.
I understood, you can not answer.It is all explained in the AccurateRip pages. You are systematically using small details and semantics to perpetuate the discussion, I am not interested in going on sideways. CD players read exactly the bits that were written in the CD, Accuraterip shows all CDs of the same recording have the same bit content - all your objections to CD bit content were addressed, nothing to add.
And be sure that I never hesitated to ask help to other knowledgeable members in this forum in this particular subject with success, but see no reason to ask yours considering your CD bits are not trusty.
HQPLAYER needs a few parameters. Do you use any objective criteria to determine their values or do you simply set them subjectively according to your preference?
100% tailor the parameters to my preferences as I’m only interested in playback for myself.
I believe this is correct. I would also say, based on my own recording experience, that a DSD recording of an acoustical event gets the closest for digital recording.
It’s possible in the near future that Robert Watts’ ADC may solve many of the issues.
That is how the test was conducted. The same feed sent to all three recording devices at the same time.
Yes, as well as any sound reproduction system.
Yes, this information is not needed to stereo sound reproduction.
Let us forget about the implementation problems for a moment - would you say the same if, for example, the DXD process was carried with ideal ADCs and DACs?
Pressings made directly from the feed with zero editing sound the most natural. Once a tin-eared engineer is placed at the controls, the feed becomes skewed.
so you are saying that the stereo format isn't capable of high fidelity?
All 1-bit processes are lacking in fine resolution (inner detail and harmonic structure).
You are not addressing any of my points. BTW this is WhatsBestForum we mostly think about the work of gold-eared engineers, not about tin-eared engineers. We can't learn any thing from them!
No, I am saying high-fidelity just needs the proper samples.
Ok, your subjective opinion. No one can debate such a dogmatic approach, we can stop here.
I theorized such a design in the last stages of digitals finalization.
I am glad that someone else thought of it.
No ADC can "solve" the quantization error or the sampling rate - it is intrinsic to digital. However designers can minimize the subjective effects of these digital characteristics. Many of us believe that we have reached a point where the performance of ADCs and DACs is not any more an obstacle to SOTA stereo sound reproduction, at the level of top analog (tape).
Direct recording of a stereo microphone feed is extremely limited and misleading in terms of test for sound stereo sound reproduction - listening tests in the past have shown that some listeners preferred the tape feed to the direct microphone feed.
I am not sure it's quite at magnetic tape simply due to the incredible density of information in tape and also my comparisons of tape v. digital. It's certainly gotten a lot closer the past couple of years.
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