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Good to hear that you agree, Tony. It is amazing what more Fryderyk can coax out of wtfplay.

If you have heard Jimi perform live, which I did, then you would never find anything to compare!

Fryderyk has again managed a sound quality improvement to wtfplay. On my gear, with 0.7.5 there is a noticeable and pleasing SQ bump up in many respects. More detail right across the board. Notable were instruments coming out of a black background, clear & delineated bass and vocals beautifully ...

I should have asked if you had found that frames and periods settings to change after using PRIORITY set to 5?

Even though I think the answer will be no.

You are correct that the answer, in my case, was 'No'.

I am using -f 2048 -n 3 -p 5 which is the current wtfsetup default. As it says in Wtfplay Manual Paragraph 4 - Why tweak the audio buffer, you may ask? Are the values not universal? Unfortunately, the answer is no. A particular hardware configuration may simply not support certain values. Furthermor...

In that case, I have gone soft in the head too! It is another useful step forward in SQ, as you say. Fryderck has modestly hidden his light under a bushel and has made one or two changes to the code and to an invisible boot parameter in 0.7.3 that have brought good gains. Difficult to believe that p...

5 it is.

The SQ on my rig is stunning.

Tony - in for a penny, in for a pound/euro, last night I tried listening tests on -p <35, fully expecting SQ to tail off. But No. The opposite was the case and it got better the lower the -p figure was. Not night & day better than -p 35, but noticeable in the way you described - (Detail and clar...

Thanks Tony. Good to hear that all three of us have reached the same conclusion on the PRIO setting. On my set-up the improvement on 35 was material compared with the default of 65 for 0.7.1. Ditto with disabling the internal sound card. It is definitely the best quality I have heard on my system. I...

Working away with it here Fryderck. Sounding great. I have changed out the amp so got improvement with that anyway but I will be very interested to see what the lads think about it when they do comparisons with the new preferred option of SD player. Hi Tony Wondered if that had been any feedback fr...

Thanks very much for the offer, Tony. I appreciate that it is difficult to get close to any apples and apples comparison as they work on completely different ways from each other and most are modded too; the best one could say is whether each acting purely as a transport is generally better than the...