I have very basic computer skills, little time, and attention deficit which prevents me from reading volumes of instructions as to how to do this.
$50 to paypal for anyone that can help me get this going
Thanks
PS: its me not HQ player or Roon (im trying to stave off any potential scorn coming my way)
USE NAS to store my music files.
Nucleus plus to NAS via network
Not sure what type of HQ player…didn’t know there’s more than one
Roon gets some flack for its sound quality (last I was reading was on PS Audio community boards.)
The folks that pan it all were saying using the HQ player really improves sound quality.
I’d like to get the most out of every aspect of my system. Using HQ player is just part of that
Thanks for your response
Is offering $$ for a service/help really a bounty?
HQP needs something to run on… Nucleus will not support anything else running on it.
What DAC do you use? If it’s network attached also might not work with HQP (PS Audio direct stream cant run NAA AFAIK) but USB connection to the HQP machine will maybe be ok - perhaps not ideal though.
you need to give much much more info and I doubt $50 would cut it for most support types to invest time on this. Just sayin’, but with enough information you might get what you need from the good folks who help out here.
No but even though I have Audirvana Ive never compared.
At same time read fait number of folks online saying it doesnt have very good sound quality.
Everyone Lauds Roon for how it organizes music but less so on sound quality.
If there was something easy that could perhaps make it sound better I walked go for it…same way I would for any pieces in my system
Hi, I’m no expert, but always happy to help! If your setup is similar to mine, you have one pc running Roon Server and another pc running HQPlayer? All pc’s are Windows? What are you using as NAA connected to your DAC? I recommend RopieeeXL. Or do you have Roon Server, and HQPlayer both running on the same PC? Can Roon play directly to the DAC?
Haha! Well, the goal is to get the best possible sound from your system and to that end, imho, HQPlayer can’t be beat! It’s a really noticeable difference from playing directly from Roon!
If you’re starting out and have not invested in any PC hardware, maybe the simplest thing is to run both Roon Server and HQPlayer on the same PC. And then once you have that working well, you can tinker to improve the sounds further. In that setup, you just attach you USB DAC to the PC and install any drivers that come with the DAC so it’s recognized by the PC. At that point, HQPlayer should be able to play to it.
Thanks
I’ve spent bout a year building my system from ground up.
I need a bit of time from spending $$$$.
Given I’m using a nucleus it doesn’t seem doable unless I buy something else
Perhaps one day down the road