Upsampling in Roon 1.3

[petrik]

I have a win10 desktop computer which is running Roon Server, HQPlayer and AIR. Everything works fine up to 192khz and sound quality is great

Great! Have you tried using HQPlayer to upsample 44.1kHz to DSD?

Guillaume

Yep, I tried HQPlayer's upsampling to DSD64 today. I didn't do any critical listening yet, but generally speaking it sounds great.

I haven't been particularly impressed by Roon's upsampling features. I think the sound quality is slightly better when Roon's upsampling is set off. This is not the case with HQPlayer. HQPlayer definitely does a better job in upsampling.

Functionally the only problem that I have noticed when upsampling to DSD64 is that there seems to come a soft click/crackle sound from a left channel always when a new track begins. I think it's just because AIR 3 isn't yet officially supporting DSD64. At least this is how I understood Sébastien's message below:

Sébastien Faure December 08, 2016 16:18
Dear all,

RC 3.0.2 for windows and RC 3.0.1 for MacOs have been published.

Please post here your feedback.

Theses RCs are focussed on the white noise and sounds delivery, all others aspects are not covered yet (DSD, Screen size, etc..) but are still in progress from our side. As soon as the CORE functions are close and delivered as expected we will dive into other aspects pending.

This is the final stage before issuing the final release.

Cheers, 

Seb