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Tried Lekt Player too but no luck so gave up.
Tried all kinds of versions and buffer settings but the best I got out of it was a click on loading a track, maybe it is better suited to on-board sound cards at the moment, maybe it needs some windows services enabled that I do not run.

Running MQN 2.71 1024 as my current best player along side JPlay Mini 5.1 and while MQN 2.71 1024 now sounds better than the infamous "Lister" I still am finding it difficult to hear much of a difference against JPlay Mini on my system.
Going to get some more ears to have a listen this week to see if either I have suddenly gone deaf or if hardware improvements have reduced the gap:-)
I think the Paul Pang USB card on my audio PC has really come in to its own in the past 2 weeks!
Cheers, Pearse.

Sligolad wrote:Tried Lekt Player too but no luck so gave up.
Tried all kinds of versions and buffer settings but the best I got out of it was a click on loading a track, maybe it is better suited to on-board sound cards at the moment, maybe it needs some windows services enabled that I do not run.

Running MQN 2.71 1024 as my current best player along side JPlay Mini 5.1 and while MQN 2.71 1024 now sounds better than the infamous "Lister" I still am finding it difficult to hear much of a difference against JPlay Mini on my system.
Going to get some more ears to have a listen this week to see if either I have suddenly gone deaf or if hardware improvements have reduced the gap:-)
I think the Paul Pang USB card on my audio PC has really come in to its own in the past 2 weeks!
Cheers, Pearse.

Hi Pearse - I think 2.71 1024, whilst very musical, is a step below the sonic pinnacle of several other MQn versions. 2.71 V2 for instance is rather "better", and I notice there is another version of the 1024 branch which may be a step up from JPlay Mini also.

The margins are quite tight though, we're not talking "huge" differences and JPlay Mini was never average either.

What do you feel the Paul Pang USB card brings? I have yet to convince myself that it would be value for money. I don't use USB power for anything (except the moue/keyboard receiver).

Regards

Mark

I feel 2.71 1024 is very listenable. My immediate reaction was that it's a little mellow but this is why it's listenable and could stand the test of time. Maybe we need a ballsy detailed version to accompany it so we can chose the setup for our mood.

Clive wrote:I feel 2.71 1024 is very listenable. My immediate reaction was that it's a little mellow but this is why it's listenable and could stand the test of time. Maybe we need a ballsy detailed version to accompany it so we can chose the setup for our mood.

now my ciunas convertor has burnt in 2.71 1024 raw background sounds almost buttery in it's smoothness. Too smooth ? don't know, but certainly a nice problem to have for a change. Shall put up another 3 variations and see what people think, these ones have more air/atmospherics, but are just variations on the transfer mechanism.

LowOrbit wrote: What do you feel the Paul Pang USB card brings? I have yet to convince myself that it would be value for money. I don't use USB power for anything (except the moue/keyboard receiver).

Regards

Mark

Hi Mark, I will reserve comment for a few days until I get a few more ears to hear my current setup this week, I have made a lot of changes recently so I need some other ears to let me know if I have gone off the rails or if the sound is as good as I think it is. I believe it has helped along with some other PPA parts to bring a startling reality to some of the music I have been listening to lately.
Lets just say I have never heard instruments sound as real as they do currently from my single audio PC, it sounds so good I have given up on what I thought was a very good streaming setup.
Will let you know whether I get a thumbs up or thumbs down this week!
Cheers, Pearse.

sbgk wrote:

Clive wrote:I feel 2.71 1024 is very listenable. My immediate reaction was that it's a little mellow but this is why it's listenable and could stand the test of time. Maybe we need a ballsy detailed version to accompany it so we can chose the setup for our mood.

now my ciunas convertor has burnt in 2.71 1024 raw background sounds almost buttery in it's smoothness. Too smooth ? don't know, but certainly a nice problem to have for a change. Shall put up another 3 variations and see what people think, these ones have more air/atmospherics, but are just variations on the transfer mechanism.

I can't believe 1024 is not butter!
The most analogue version yet? As in LP12.

Presently running WS2012 R2 in GUI Mode.
Grateful for advice as to whether SQ improvement with Minimal Server interface is worth the potential hassle? I run a dedicated audio PC so don't need anything else.
The only question I had was the loss of Windows Explorer in Minimal Server. How does one display folders of Music and select them for MQn to play?

Thanks
Jonathan

jrling wrote:Presently running WS2012 R2 in GUI Mode.
Grateful for advice as to whether SQ improvement with Minimal Server interface is worth the potential hassle? I run a dedicated audio PC so don't need anything else.
The only question I had was the loss of Windows Explorer in Minimal Server. How does one display folders of Music and select them for MQn to play?

Thanks
Jonathan

Be great if we could get folks to rate the improvements they hear with changes to their PC setup - I've tried a lot of different things and most of the time the 'improvements' do not justify the hassle. So far the biggest contributors to sound quality in my setup have also been the easiest to implement: the audio program (duh), W8 upgrade, Win32 Separation priority in registry, underclocking cpu and memory, shutting down basic unnecessary services, changing clock rate.

All the Server Enterprise, custom optimized OS downloads, crazy registry tweaks, EMI paper, SotM - if all that is necessary and someone STILL feels like more could be done then I think a wrong turn was made somewhere. So many of these latter tweaks to my ears qualified as only maybe a +.5 improvement at best and often required recalibrating settings or just plain made things worse.

uploaded the different versions sd = v2 and sb is probably the one with most air/detail

Hello everyone, i need help..how can i play flac files on Mqn???
ive tried all.. installed sox, flac etc but i receive the message:
Could Not Find C:\musicplayer\Files.txt
Could Not Find C:\musicplauer\*.wav
C:\Program Files <x86>\sox-14-4-1\sox.exe FAIL formats: no handler for detected file type `flac´
File Not Found
File Not Found

I´m on windows 8.1 with an audiophilleo spdif converter...
i can only play wave files...