![]() I have Foobar set to view by folder structure and it is fabulous. The real issue with these players, IMO, is their library management tools and speed of indexing. ![]() You just don’t need to worry about that stuff now. These DAC drivers eliminate the need for the older ASIO and other generic drivers. Again, the issue just passing bit-for-bit or whatever your source file is. As long as the player you use allows you to select your device’s driver, they will all sound the same.īy the way, the Benchmark driver, and I would assume any new quality DAC, passes different sampling rates and word lenths. When you fire up your player such as Foobar, you then go into Perferences and select the Benchmark driver. Benchmark has their own driver that passes bit-for-bit. let’s say you install a Benchmark DAC and connect it, as you should, to your computer USB port. (jitter should be mitigated by your DAC or through use of a jitter reducer like a Mutec or equivalent). Once you have bit-for-bit transfer, there can be no sound difference. The issue with a player is to avoid the Windows kernel sound mixer/processor. If you do hear a difference, you are not passing bit-for-bit in both or one of those players. ![]() I have no idea why either of these would effect sound quality if you are using a driver that passes bit-for-bit. I'm sure other software are good, but I haven't reviewed. This is just another element which shows JRiver is highly configurable to support any sort of environment or quirk. In this mode, the Oppo will play the 192 file just fine. In this mode, JRiver will decode the FLAC and send it down as strictly a WAV file. However, I can set the JRiver DLNA server "Audio Mode" to "Specified output format only when necessary". When it's reading the "original" file data, it skips. The Oppo "reads" the FLAC files over the network. I use JRiver 22 as a DLNA server for my FLAC files. When I am using JRiver to play this latest Diana Krall file locally on my DAC (attached to my computer), it does it just fine. When the Oppo reads the FLAC or DSD data, there appears to be an issue with timing because the audio constantly skips (like once per second). Both the 192 FLAC and DSD have had problems playing on Oppo 103/105 players. The latest Diana Krall hi-res album (Turn Up The Quiet) appears to have been engineered a little differently. Found some opinions on a broad Internet search, but not comparing the latest iterations of the software. Would also appreciate info on link to post here that covers this topic, or review/comparison elsewhere on the Internet. Has anybody done a thorough recent comparison of the two playback programs on a PC within the last year, and if so, what was your experience? I did a quick search on Agon forum, but did not turn up anything useful in terms of comparison. There could be other confounding issues, but I thought this result was interesting. Not dramatic or in your face differences, but reproducible. I recently did a rough AB comparison with a friend on his fairly resolving system with two computers running the same music files but using the different playback programs, and the JRiver version sounded better (more detail in the treble and midrange, better spatial information, more interesting and involving overall). I have since upgraded to latest version of JRiver (21.0.23) and have ceased using Foobar at all. ![]() Operation and features were also superior at the time. I have both programs installed on my office computer system and found that JRiver worked and sounded slightly better to me than similar vintage version of Foobar.
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