HQPlayer

[petrik]

I wish I could hear it - I guess my ears/setup just isn't up to it but try as I might I can barely detect any improvement/change with upsampling - HQPlayer or Roon.

I had been running Roon at max pcm and max x2 for a couple weeks each and thought there was a slight edge but having disabled it I just couldn't say I'm missing anything. I felt the same when i tried HQPlayer - although not tried it since the pro upgrade.

To be honest I'm really enjoying the simplification of the setup with AIR. it's been so long I thought it would never happen. Now I've got it I'm kind of glad I'm off the 'chasing a bit of extra SQ road'.

That's good for you. I wish I wouldn't hear any difference but I have tried it many times and every time I have preferred upsampling to 24/192 in HQPlayer.

Please enjoy from your setup. I really like sound of the PMCs 

What filter and noiseshape have you settled on in HQPlayer?

Do you always run 192kHz or do you use a filter that only run multiples of the frequency? 44.1 -> 176.4 or 48 -> 192

I run PCM  Poly-Sinc-Ext and NS9 right now.

Yes, I am upsampling to 192khz always. That sounds good to me (compared with the original files which are most typically 44.1khz). I have also tried DSD64 and 176.4khz some time ago but I think I slightly preferred 192khz.

Currently I'm running "poly-sinc" & NS9 and really happy with that. I would like to try Ext and Xtr versions at some point because so many people are saying that those are the best ones. "Poly-sinc" already sounds so nice that I am not in a hurry to change that.

I am also running convolution in Roon (FIR filters created by Acourate). I would like to try running convolution in HQPlayer at some point but that would require me to create new filters since it's not compatible with the same filters that I'm using in Roon.