Peter Stockwell wrote:cvrle59 wrote:I do have MC19 too, and Naim DAC-V1/Nap100/Harbeth P3ESR's. To me the difference is obvious, and I'm not even thinking to go back and listen JRiver, but I do use GUI to locate music in it.
Are you using Memory playback in JRiver MC 19 ?
Yes I do, and I almost do not hear the difference comparing to streaming it. Even JRiver is stating the same, there is no SQ difference.
MQn changes the game, that even my wife who's not that picky, doesn't want to listen JRiver any more. The reason why I had to implement HotKey thing, to call MQn.bat, was actually her.
Everything becomes more open, more details, especially the background instrument, more air between the instruments, more texture on base, but voices... sometimes I think they are singing live in my leaving room. A few nights ago we were listening an old Elvis's album and we just looked into each other, wow. The other big difference is the low volume presentation. For the first time I can say that computer (including CD player - I used owe Naim CDS, one of the most "analog" CD players) playback doesn't feel "digital".
When I started with MQa, I was running a few tracks around to test different versions of MQn. Recently, I listen different music, and I find so much new coming from every album that I just can't believe. Naim+Harbeth has a lot to do it too. I used owe 3-4 time more expensive equipment (I already wrote about it), but this little system with MQn just kills it. Naim just nailed it with this DAC-V1 and NAP100, amazing little combo (SBGK may not like Naim, so what, I do...lol). P3ESR's are well know as very precise and accurate speakers. There are some low notes missing out of small bookshelf speakers, but whatever comes out of them is worth million bucks. My plan is to replace them with 30.1 some day, and that would be it.
USB cable is AudioQuest Cinnamon, nothing too fancy.
I just use my ordinary Dell LapTop with Win8, and I made only one optimization so far. SBGK explained it on CA thread, but I will post it again.
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Multimedia\SystemProfile\Tasks\P ro Audio]
"Scheduling Category"="High"
"GPU Priority"=dword:00000008
"Affinity"=dword:00000000
"Clock Rate"=dword:0000b568
"SFIO Priority"="Normal"
"Priority"=dword:00000008
"Background Only"="False"