Torben_Rick
(Torben - A Dane living in Hamburg - Roon Lifer)
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I have been reading a lot about HQPlayer - seems interesting and I has thinking about giving it a try. If a standard setting would give me SQ improvements than I would consider buying a licens.
Can HQplayer improve the sound quality just with standard settings? I don’t want to spend a lot time on fileters etc.
Currently ROCK is installed on:
cirrus7 nimbini v3 - Intel® NUC Comet Lake i7-10710U - 16GB DDR4 SO-DIMM, SSD 970 EVO Plus 500GB, M.2, SSD 870 QVO 1TB, SATA
BUT: It would be nice to install and integrate HQPlayer on my ROCK NUC so that I don’t have to use two PC’s. If this is not possible than I am OUT. If not, I will stick with ROCK server as it is.
Do a trial. It is a nice type of trial. It lets you use HQP for 30 minutes. Than it stops and you have to manually restart the HQP app to get another 30 minutes and so on. Just enough to get an idea. When the 30 minutes start to get on your nerves it is time to decide.
I’m not that advanced so I cannot answer the comp stuff.
I do not remember very well, you have a Linn device connected via USB or via ethernet?
Traian
Torben_Rick
(Torben - A Dane living in Hamburg - Roon Lifer)
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And you have the cirrus on the same rack with Linn? HQP it will not work with RAAT. HQP uses NAA for network, so you have to check if the Linn has NAA or go USB
Unfortunately it isn’t possible … you cannot install anything on Rock but …
you can install Ubuntu (22.04 LTS), install on it Roon server and on the same pc HQPlayer (Desktop or Embedded) too.
Linn doesn’t have NAA therefore you have two chances:
connect the Cirrus to Linn with usb
get a NAA endpoint to be connected to Linn, the NAA endpoint must be connected on the same lan.
NAA capable endpoints could be the ones referenced in the screenshot
