Bye, bye HQPlayer - Roon's Sample Rate Conversion is here!

[Christoph]

In my experience so far, HQPlayer sounds MUCH better than roon 1.3s own upsampling.
It’s a pity because with roon alone, it would have been much easier.
But for me, HQPlayer offers so much better soundquality, that I’m willing to put up with the increased level of attention HQPlayer demands from the user.

[R1200CL]

You may find this thread interesting

Control of HQ Player within Roon

This is part of a somewhat bigger project to support additional “playback controls”. Several Roon Ready partners also want this for switching filters/phase at the DAC, doing channel trimming controls, and other stuff like that. HQPlayer is one of about 10 partners that would benefit from this sort of integration. In addition, we would make the same capabilities available via the Roon API so people could attach extra controls of their own (or integrate with other things). I think we’ll add suppo…

I think we just have to be patient.
We may get the HQPlayer’s best parts (filters, upsamling, algorithm) to be controlled by Roon on a Linux installation before 2020

I think MQA, Rock, and fine tuning of 1.3 has top priority now.

Soon there will be powerful fanless HW available I hope.
I think we understand more let’s say in 2 or 3 months after ROCK is released.

And maybe SonicOrbiter will decide to do something as well…

[Christoph]

I wasn’t whining, I wanted to know if other users have made the same experience regarding Soundquality between roon 1.3 upsampling and HQaplayer upsampling.
In my experience the difference is not subtle.
No wonder, after all, HQPlayer is very well regarded and not really cheap, compared to the free addition in roon 1.3
The OP said he doesn’t hear a difference and for me it’s rather substancial