@John_Culver Hi! I think there are no problems at all using Roon just for managing your music and let HQP do the magic, I just use the headphone algorithm but, honestly, I want to try not using it, in order to see the difference
Pardon my ignorance here, but I seem to recall reading Roon opened up the platform for 3rd party plug-in DSP options. If this is so, any future where HPQ is sold in a Roon plug-in version? It would make things much easier.
I’m using Roon with HQPlayer through a microRendu to a PSAudio DirectStream DAC. After hours of figuring out how to get it working and what settings to use I am very pleased with the results.
I never looked at Roon DSP until I read through this thread. When I did look at the Roon DSP settings I found that overall DSP was on but each part of it was disabled. I was listening at that moment and disabled DSP entirely. There was a brief pause and then a clear improvement in SQ.
Thinking of buying HQPLAYER but just can’t seem to hear that much of a difference and can’t justify paying for something that if there were a difference it’s to small to pay for? True?
Those of you that has the SonicTransporter, should purchase HQPlayer from SmallGreenComputer.
The price is a bit (quite) more reasonable.
The license is HW attached, so it’s looked to your SonicTransporter 4ever. But of cause within reason, like a HD crash will SMG help you recover the license. ( So you won’t need to purchase again).
This service should not be expected if one purchase from the official site.