Sse2 Sounds waaay better than Foobar XA (recommended by JC) and Aplayer (Album Player) what means is GREAT.
Thanks SBGK.
i bet you didn't test xa on pkshan win7...
if you did use pkshan win7 and still think mqn is better all way, you should buy xs...
you can get a refund if you can define OS+bios setting + mqn that beats xs
tell you right now... xa + 7 > mqn + R2 with texture quality + mid + vocal refinement + earaches...
other things mqn better
I tested it on win8.1. XA sounds great and I like it's Foobar functionality.
In my opinion MQN>Album player (Aplayer)>Foobar Xa>Jplay
Think the XA's special Asio version sonds great. On Aplayer I like KS full memory option.
But... MQN is still unbeatable :)
PC: CPU Q8400, 8GB Ram, Windows 8.1 x64
DAC: HRT Music Streamer II+, Asus Xonar Essence ST (+ HiEnd DYI upgrades)
-copy the file to mqn folder where mqnplay.exe is... SQ change effective immediately
-delete the file if you don't like the sound
tested with 2.71x, 2.73x, SQ only better
tested with 5.07 AVX... texture more listenable. (AVX tends to be rich and texture lacking)
tested with 5.69 sse2.. reduces harshness of see2
bad things less. good things better. maybe too crispy/dry sounding... (but don't think this would be issue for people. since people has no problem the SQ effect with affinity tweak)
-copy the file to mqn folder where mqnplay.exe is... SQ change effective immediately
-delete the file if you don't like the sound
tested with 2.71x, 2.73x, SQ only better
tested with 5.07 AVX... texture more listenable. (AVX tends to be rich and texture lacking)
tested with 5.69 sse2.. reduces harshness of see2
bad things less. good things better. maybe too crispy/dry sounding... (but don't think this would be issue for people. since people has no problem the SQ effect with affinity tweak)
would like some feedbacks
Interesting how does this compare or affect the use of taggarts tasker
sd card player, modded soekris dac, class a lifepo4 amp or gb class a/b amp, diy open baffle speakers based on project audio mundorf trio 10's
uploaded 6.01, sounds pretty good, definitely a candidate according to my ears, uses 2 loops so no buffer pointer manipulation or calculation. tried it before and wasn't convinced, but this is better, 6.00 is the 1 loop version.
has anyone used aplay on linux with a wav file ? could tweak aplay etc in linux surely that's better than windows pain.
reading some of the lp12 upgrade threads on pfm talking about different bearings reducing bass bloom, so all is not perfect in the analogue world.
sbgk wrote:uploaded 6.01, sounds pretty good, definitely a candidate according to my ears, uses 2 loops so no buffer pointer manipulation or calculation. tried it before and wasn't convinced, but this is better, 6.00 is the 1 loop version.
has anyone used aplay on linux with a wav file ? could tweak aplay etc in linux surely that's better than windows pain.
reading some of the lp12 upgrade threads on pfm talking about different bearings reducing bass bloom, so all is not perfect in the analogue world.
Prob the best guy here for aplay Linux is frd1996 might be no harm to shoot him a pm
Linux opens lots of doors in regards leaving the complexity of the pc and we could use bbb rpi etc
Although there's much improvement needed for Linux
Don't think digital ever left the analog world
sd card player, modded soekris dac, class a lifepo4 amp or gb class a/b amp, diy open baffle speakers based on project audio mundorf trio 10's
ok thanks. have tweaked sbt extensively, but not touched the software, unlikely to get much help from linux guys as they all seem to be bits are bits types.
uploaded 6.02, 6.01 had a setting which was left over from a previous trial which affected the soundstage.
6.02 is equivalent to 6.00, but 2 loops instead of 1.
sbgk wrote:ok thanks. have tweaked sbt extensively, but not touched the software, unlikely to get much help from linux guys as they all seem to be bits are bits types.
try him
even if he thinks were full of shit doesn't necessarily mean he wont have a little input
uploaded 6.02, 6.01 had a setting which was left over from a previous trial which affected the soundstage.
6.02 is equivalent to 6.00, but 2 loops instead of 1.
very quick test 6.00 > 6.02 better subtleties
will need to test vs 5.98/5.97 later
sd card player, modded soekris dac, class a lifepo4 amp or gb class a/b amp, diy open baffle speakers based on project audio mundorf trio 10's
I am with Jesuschueng here the old hires versions of MQn have a certain sound that has not been bettered. Avx2 only means haswell punters so small body of testers