Looking For Your Opinion

[Petri (Petri K.)]

@Kenneth_Price

Not trying to start a fight here, but upsampling just does not make sense as a means to improve quality. If it is not there in the original, it can’t be magically restored.

Perhaps following posts will give you some new ideas why people like using the HQPlayer:

What do most people use HQ player for?

I think most people use HQPlayer with Roon for its up-sampling and sigma-delta modulation (“PCM->DSD Conversion”) capabilities. There’s a 99% chance that your DAC is performing some sort of over-sampling internally–this is pretty much the case unless you went out of your way to buy a NOS (No Over Sampling) DAC. There is also a very high likelihood that at some point during the source material->analog process, your signal is being digitally transformed from PCM (pulse code modulation at a low …

What do most people use HQ player for?

Just to explain some major differences between how typical DAC chips work vs how HQPlayer processes signal… When RedBook content is played, typical DAC chip processing path looks like this: [2x 63-tap FIR] -> [2x 31-tap FIR] -> [2x 15-tap FIR] -> [16x sample&hold] -> [3rd order sigma-delta modulator] So after first stage rate is 88.2k, after second stage 176.4k and after third stage 352.8k. After that point, every sample is repeated 16 times (sample&hold aka zero-order-hold) reaching 5.6 MHz …