A few months ago I had a fanless pc assembled for me. It's a Skylake i5 ASUS H110T mono with SSD. I've been using Bug Head successfully. This new pc brought a very significant lift in SQ. I then purchased an HDPLEX linear PS and again another significant lift in SQ.
I tried Foobar over the weekend for background music and noticed the sound to be pretty good. Actually it's very comparable with Bug Head. I'm beginning to wonder whether the likes of Mqn, Bug Head and wtfplay sound better than the likes of Foobar on lesser hardware but a better spec of pc is less noisey allowing Foobar to close the SQ gap.
Anyone else reached a similar conclusion?
Build a dedicated Audio PC
Re: Build a dedicated Audio PC
yes better hardware narrows the gap
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