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57 minutes ago, tedwoods said:

It's the same: min -60.0 db max 00.0 db ...

This volume control did not work for me in version 4.02. I changed it to 0/0, others use -3 / -3. These settings work. I adjust the volume via my amplifier.

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2 hours ago, StreamFidelity said:

This volume control did not work for me in version 4.02. I changed it to 0/0, others use -3 / -3. These settings work. I adjust the volume via my amplifier.

 

Note that 0/0 practically means triggering limiter regularly. Keep eye on the "Limited" counter in main window/client, it should stay at 0 at all times.

 

Signalyst - Developer of HQPlayer

Pulse & Fidelity - Software Defined Amplifiers

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On 5/8/2019 at 2:31 AM, Miska said:
On 5/7/2019 at 9:33 PM, lucretius said:

 

Yes, I have the Virtual Audio Cable selected as the input device.  I installed 4.0.2 and this still does not work.  ??

 

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Are you getting same errors in the log? Now it even supports WASAPI shared mode as fallback if everything else fails... Maybe that virtual driver is broken is some other way...

 

Maybe they didn't want to bother creating DLL/DPLL to generate proper virtual sample clock for the audio and thus don't support event driven WASAPI mode at all. But it should still work in shared mode from Windows audio engine which runs it's own clock like CoreAudio on macOS...

 

Here is the log:

 

* 2019/05/09 20:09:31 Starting...
  2019/05/09 20:09:31 Signalyst HQPlayer 4 Desktop v4.0.2
  2019/05/09 20:09:31 Engine selected:
  2019/05/09 20:09:36 Restore GUI state
  2019/05/09 20:09:36 libDSP version 20.7.3
  2019/05/09 20:09:36 HQPlayer Engine version 4.14.0
  2019/05/09 20:09:36 CUDA offload requested
  2019/05/09 20:09:36 Number of processor cores: 6
  2019/05/09 20:09:36 DSP thread pools enabled (3)
  2019/05/09 20:09:36 Pipelined DSP enabled
  2019/05/09 20:09:36 Audio engine: asio
  2019/05/09 20:09:36 Input set channels: 2 (2)
  2019/05/09 20:09:36 ASIO output drivers: 3
  2019/05/09 20:09:36 ASIO output found drivers:
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     'ASIO4ALL v2' (0)
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     'FL Studio ASIO' (1)
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     'Mytek USB Audio' (2)
  2019/05/09 20:09:36 ASIO output period time set
  2019/05/09 20:09:36 Loaded ASIO driver: Mytek USB Audio
  2019/05/09 20:09:36 ASIO output device supports DSD
  2019/05/09 20:09:36 ASIO output device supports PCM
  2019/05/09 20:09:36 ASIO output default format is PCM
  2019/05/09 20:09:36 ASIO output rates available:
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     44100
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     48000
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     88200
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     96000
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     176400
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     192000
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     352800
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     384000
  2019/05/09 20:09:36 ASIO output channels: 4 in / 2 out
  2019/05/09 20:09:36 ASIO output channel map:
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     0: Output L
  2019/05/09 20:09:36 ASIO output SampleFormat 18, 32-bit
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     1: Output R
  2019/05/09 20:09:36 Input set channels: 2 (2)
  2019/05/09 20:09:36 Volume max: 0
  2019/05/09 20:09:36 Volume min: -60
  2019/05/09 20:09:36 Set volume: -60
  2019/05/09 20:09:36 Automatic rate family disabled
  2019/05/09 20:09:36 DirectSDM disabled
  2019/05/09 20:09:36 SDM conversion parameters (0, 0)
  2019/05/09 20:09:36 DSD 6 dB gain disabled
  2019/05/09 20:09:36 Initial parallel threads: 12
  2019/05/09 20:09:36 Number of logical cores: 12
  2019/05/09 20:09:36 Control active volume range: -60 - 0 dB
  2019/05/09 20:09:36 Audio transport: rate=0 channels=2 format=auto buffer=0
  2019/05/09 20:09:36 Output set channels: 2 (2)
  2019/05/09 20:09:36 OutputSDM packing: 1
  2019/05/09 20:09:36 WASAPI input found endpoints:
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     'Mic 1 (Virtual Audio Cable)' (0)
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     'Line 1 (Virtual Audio Cable)' (1)
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     'Line (Brooklyn DAC+)' (2)
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     'S/PDIF 1 (Virtual Audio Cable)' (3)
  2019/05/09 20:09:36 WASAPI input open audio endpoint GUID: {0.0.1.00000000}.{c3f83b48-1944-45cb-8f5d-efbd41421348}
  2019/05/09 20:09:36 WASAPI input currently using: 'Line 1 (Virtual Audio Cable)'
  2019/05/09 20:09:36 WASAPI input type: Line
  2019/05/09 20:09:36 WASAPI input engine initialized
  2019/05/09 20:09:36 WASAPI input discover rates for 2 channels
  2019/05/09 20:09:36 WASAPI input formats available:
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     44100/22 (32)
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     48000/22 (32)
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     64000/22 (32)
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     88200/22 (32)
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     96000/22 (32)
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     128000/22 (32)
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     176400/22 (32)
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     192000/22 (32)
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     44100/20 (32)
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     48000/20 (32)
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     64000/20 (32)
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     88200/20 (32)
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     96000/20 (32)
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     128000/20 (32)
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     176400/20 (32)
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  2019/05/09 20:09:36     44100/18 (32)
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  2019/05/09 20:09:36     192000/18 (32)
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     44100/22 (24)
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     48000/22 (24)
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     64000/22 (24)
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  2019/05/09 20:09:36     176400/16 (16)
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     192000/16 (16)
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     44100/16 (32)
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     48000/16 (32)
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     64000/16 (32)
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     88200/16 (32)
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     96000/16 (32)
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     128000/16 (32)
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     176400/16 (32)
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     192000/16 (32)
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     44100/16 (24)
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     48000/16 (24)
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     64000/16 (24)
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     88200/16 (24)
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     96000/16 (24)
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     128000/16 (24)
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     176400/16 (24)
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     192000/16 (24)
  2019/05/09 20:09:36 WASAPI input engine uninitialized
  2019/05/09 20:09:36 WASAPI input format discovery complete
  2019/05/09 20:09:36 WASAPI input set sampling rate: 0 (0)
  2019/05/09 20:09:36 Audio transport: rate=0 channels=2 format=auto buffer=0
  2019/05/09 20:09:36 Output set channels: 2 (2)
  2019/05/09 20:09:36 OutputSDM packing: 1
  2019/05/09 20:09:36 WASAPI input found endpoints:
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     'Mic 1 (Virtual Audio Cable)' (0)
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     'Line 1 (Virtual Audio Cable)' (1)
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     'Line (Brooklyn DAC+)' (2)
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     'S/PDIF 1 (Virtual Audio Cable)' (3)
  2019/05/09 20:09:36 WASAPI input open audio endpoint GUID: {0.0.1.00000000}.{c3f83b48-1944-45cb-8f5d-efbd41421348}
  2019/05/09 20:09:36 WASAPI input currently using: 'Line 1 (Virtual Audio Cable)'
  2019/05/09 20:09:36 WASAPI input type: Line
  2019/05/09 20:09:36 WASAPI input engine initialized
  2019/05/09 20:09:36 WASAPI input discover rates for 2 channels
  2019/05/09 20:09:36 WASAPI input formats available:
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     44100/22 (32)
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     48000/22 (32)
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     64000/22 (32)
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     88200/22 (32)
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     96000/22 (32)
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     128000/22 (32)
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     176400/22 (32)
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     192000/22 (32)
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     44100/20 (32)
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     48000/20 (32)
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     64000/20 (32)
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     88200/20 (32)
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     96000/20 (32)
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     128000/20 (32)
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     176400/20 (32)
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     192000/20 (32)
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  2019/05/09 20:09:36     96000/18 (32)
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     128000/18 (32)
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     176400/18 (32)
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     192000/18 (32)
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     44100/22 (24)
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     48000/22 (24)
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  2019/05/09 20:09:36     96000/22 (24)
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  2019/05/09 20:09:36     44100/16 (16)
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     48000/16 (16)
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  2019/05/09 20:09:36     88200/16 (16)
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     96000/16 (16)
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     128000/16 (16)
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     176400/16 (16)
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     192000/16 (16)
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     44100/16 (32)
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     48000/16 (32)
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     64000/16 (32)
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     88200/16 (32)
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     96000/16 (32)
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     128000/16 (32)
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     176400/16 (32)
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     192000/16 (32)
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     44100/16 (24)
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     48000/16 (24)
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     64000/16 (24)
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     88200/16 (24)
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     96000/16 (24)
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     128000/16 (24)
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     176400/16 (24)
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     192000/16 (24)
  2019/05/09 20:09:36 WASAPI input engine uninitialized
  2019/05/09 20:09:36 WASAPI input format discovery complete
  2019/05/09 20:09:36 WASAPI input set sampling rate: 0 (0)
  2019/05/09 20:09:36 Set filter: 9 / 9
  2019/05/09 20:09:36 Set oversampling: 9 / 9
  2019/05/09 20:09:36 Set dither: 5
  2019/05/09 20:09:36 Set modulator: 6
  2019/05/09 20:09:36 AutoSDM disabled
  2019/05/09 20:09:36 Audio engine is normal
  2019/05/09 20:09:36 ASIO output failed to change format to DSD
  2019/05/09 20:09:36 ASIO output DSD buffer size is in bits
  2019/05/09 20:09:36 ASIO output rates available:
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     44100
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     48000
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     88200
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     96000
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     176400
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     192000
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     352800
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     384000
  2019/05/09 20:09:36 ASIO output channels: 4 in / 2 out
  2019/05/09 20:09:36 ASIO output channel map:
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     0: Output L
  2019/05/09 20:09:36 ASIO output SampleFormat 18, 32-bit
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     1: Output R
  2019/05/09 20:09:36 SDM conversion parameters (0, 0)
  2019/05/09 20:09:36 DSD 6 dB gain disabled
  2019/05/09 20:09:36 Audio engine PCM mode enabled
  2019/05/09 20:09:36 Requested output rate: 384000
  2019/05/09 20:09:36 ASIO output set sampling rate: 384000 (384000)
  2019/05/09 20:09:36 ASIO output channels: 4 in / 2 out
  2019/05/09 20:09:36 ASIO output channel map:
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     0: Output L
  2019/05/09 20:09:36 ASIO output SampleFormat 18, 32-bit
  2019/05/09 20:09:36     1: Output R
  2019/05/09 20:09:36 Set volume: -2
* 2019/05/09 20:09:36 Control server allow remote control
& 2019/05/09 20:09:52 Playlist save: C:\Users\Michael\AppData\Local\HQPlayer\current.m3u8
  2019/05/09 20:09:52  found endpoints:
  2019/05/09 20:09:52     'Mic 1 (Virtual Audio Cable)' (0)
  2019/05/09 20:09:52     'Line 1 (Virtual Audio Cable)' (1)
  2019/05/09 20:09:52     'Line (Brooklyn DAC+)' (2)
  2019/05/09 20:09:52     'S/PDIF 1 (Virtual Audio Cable)' (3)
  2019/05/09 20:09:52  engine uninitialized
  2019/05/09 20:09:52  drivers: 3
  2019/05/09 20:09:52  found drivers:
  2019/05/09 20:09:52     'ASIO4ALL v2' (0)
  2019/05/09 20:09:52     'FL Studio ASIO' (1)
  2019/05/09 20:09:52     'Mytek USB Audio' (2)
  2019/05/09 20:10:00 libDSP version 20.7.3
  2019/05/09 20:10:00 HQPlayer Engine version 4.14.0
  2019/05/09 20:10:00 CUDA offload requested
  2019/05/09 20:10:00 Number of processor cores: 6
  2019/05/09 20:10:00 DSP thread pools enabled (3)
  2019/05/09 20:10:00 Pipelined DSP enabled
  2019/05/09 20:10:00 Audio engine: asio
  2019/05/09 20:10:00 Output set channels: 2 (2)
  2019/05/09 20:10:00 ASIO output drivers: 3
  2019/05/09 20:10:00 ASIO output found drivers:
  2019/05/09 20:10:00     'ASIO4ALL v2' (0)
  2019/05/09 20:10:00     'FL Studio ASIO' (1)
  2019/05/09 20:10:00     'Mytek USB Audio' (2)
  2019/05/09 20:10:00 ASIO output period time set
  2019/05/09 20:10:00 Loaded ASIO driver: Mytek USB Audio
  2019/05/09 20:10:00 ASIO output device supports DSD
  2019/05/09 20:10:00 ASIO output device supports PCM
  2019/05/09 20:10:00 ASIO output default format is PCM
  2019/05/09 20:10:00 ASIO output rates available:
  2019/05/09 20:10:00     44100
  2019/05/09 20:10:00     48000
  2019/05/09 20:10:00     88200
  2019/05/09 20:10:00     96000
  2019/05/09 20:10:00     176400
  2019/05/09 20:10:00     192000
  2019/05/09 20:10:00     352800
  2019/05/09 20:10:00     384000
  2019/05/09 20:10:00 ASIO output channels: 4 in / 2 out
  2019/05/09 20:10:00 ASIO output channel map:
  2019/05/09 20:10:00     0: Output L
  2019/05/09 20:10:00 ASIO output SampleFormat 18, 32-bit
  2019/05/09 20:10:00     1: Output R
  2019/05/09 20:10:00 Output set channels: 2 (2)
  2019/05/09 20:10:00 Volume max: 0
  2019/05/09 20:10:00 Volume min: -60
  2019/05/09 20:10:00 Set volume: -60
  2019/05/09 20:10:00 Automatic rate family disabled
  2019/05/09 20:10:00 DirectSDM disabled
  2019/05/09 20:10:00 SDM conversion parameters (0, 0)
  2019/05/09 20:10:00 DSD 6 dB gain disabled
  2019/05/09 20:10:00 Initial parallel threads: 12
  2019/05/09 20:10:00 Number of logical cores: 12
  2019/05/09 20:10:00 Control active volume range: -60 - 0 dB
  2019/05/09 20:10:00 Audio transport: rate=0 channels=2 format=auto buffer=0
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  2019/05/09 20:10:00     'Line (Brooklyn DAC+)' (2)
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  2019/05/09 20:10:00 WASAPI input engine initialized
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  2019/05/09 20:10:00 Set filter: 9 / 9
  2019/05/09 20:10:00 Set oversampling: 9 / 9
  2019/05/09 20:10:00 Set dither: 5
  2019/05/09 20:10:00 Set modulator: 6
  2019/05/09 20:10:00 AutoSDM disabled
  2019/05/09 20:10:00 Audio engine is normal
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  2019/05/09 20:10:00 ASIO output DSD buffer size is in bits
  2019/05/09 20:10:00 ASIO output rates available:
  2019/05/09 20:10:00     44100
  2019/05/09 20:10:00     48000
  2019/05/09 20:10:00     88200
  2019/05/09 20:10:00     96000
  2019/05/09 20:10:00     176400
  2019/05/09 20:10:00     192000
  2019/05/09 20:10:00     352800
  2019/05/09 20:10:00     384000
  2019/05/09 20:10:00 ASIO output channels: 4 in / 2 out
  2019/05/09 20:10:00 ASIO output channel map:
  2019/05/09 20:10:00     0: Output L
  2019/05/09 20:10:00 ASIO output SampleFormat 18, 32-bit
  2019/05/09 20:10:00     1: Output R
  2019/05/09 20:10:00 SDM conversion parameters (0, 0)
  2019/05/09 20:10:00 DSD 6 dB gain disabled
  2019/05/09 20:10:00 Audio engine PCM mode enabled
  2019/05/09 20:10:00 Requested output rate: 384000
  2019/05/09 20:10:00 ASIO output set sampling rate: 384000 (384000)
  2019/05/09 20:10:00 ASIO output channels: 4 in / 2 out
  2019/05/09 20:10:00 ASIO output channel map:
  2019/05/09 20:10:00     0: Output L
  2019/05/09 20:10:00 ASIO output SampleFormat 18, 32-bit
  2019/05/09 20:10:00     1: Output R
  2019/05/09 20:10:00 Set volume: -2
  2019/05/09 20:12:03 Set convolution: 1
  2019/05/09 20:12:03 Set volume: -2
& 2019/05/09 20:12:03 Play
# 2019/05/09 20:12:03 clMainWindow::startPlay(): clHQPlayerEngine::Play(): Transport == NULL
* 2019/05/09 20:12:08 Control server allow local control
  2019/05/09 20:13:00 Store GUI state
& 2019/05/09 20:13:00 Playlist save: C:\Users\Michael\AppData\Local\HQPlayer\current.m3u8
  2019/05/09 20:13:00 Shutting down...
* 2019/05/09 20:13:00 Exit

 

 

I don't know if the virtual driver is broken in some other way but I find that it works with other software and it works in WASAPI exclusive mode.

 

Maybe this helps:

https://grzelewski.net/docs/VAC/WhatisVirtualAudioCable.html

 

Thanks.

mQa is dead!

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12 hours ago, StreamFidelity said:

Thanks

I am using pure audio PC with 6 core CPU in turbo mode (3 GHz), Windows 10 Pro, Audiophile Optimizer and Fidelizer Pro. I got a very good suport from Miska, since at first it only went well with DSD 256. DSD 512 requires cores at a high speed.

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Really, really nice setup! Question for you: Can you do DSD 512 with high res pcm source files? I find that cpu load goes up considerably when FLAC source is 24 / 96 or 24 / 192 versus Redbook 16 / 44.1 kHz. Is that inevitable or is there a way to mitigate it with settings? Jussi, please weigh in if possible. Appreciated!

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43 minutes ago, LoryWiv said:

Really, really nice setup! Question for you: Can you do DSD 512 with high res pcm source files? I find that cpu load goes up considerably when FLAC source is 24 / 96 or 24 / 192 versus Redbook 16 / 44.1 kHz. Is that inevitable or is there a way to mitigate it with settings? Jussi, please weigh in if possible. Appreciated!

Thanks

 

It's true that the CPU load increases with high-resolution source material. About Qobuz I like to stream PCM 96/24 and convert it to DSD 512. This increases my CPU load by about 10% to around 70%. Fortunately, I can continue to drive low latencies in USB buffer. LatencyMon tool indicates that my system can provide low latencies for real-time audio. Until then it was a long way.

 

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In combination with Roon it's my best audio setup so far.

 

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I've updated to 4.0.2 and suddenly there was no sound. DAC showed that it locked onto signal correctly, but there was silence. 

It seems that Jussi has fixed some bug with the volume control (or introduced new one ;)). Because it was working fine for me with the 60\0 volume in settings. But the volume did not work anyway for the DSD512 conversion.

Thanks to @StreamFidelity post, I've fixed the silence by setting min\max volume to 0\0. 

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19 minutes ago, fred_com said:

I've updated to 4.0.2 and suddenly there was no sound. DAC showed that it locked onto signal correctly, but there was silence. 

It seems that Jussi has fixed some bug with the volume control (or introduced new one ;)). Because it was working fine for me with the 60\0 volume in settings. But the volume did not work anyway for the DSD512 conversion.

Thanks to @StreamFidelity post, I've fixed the silence by setting min\max volume to 0\0. 

 

No issues with sound after update to 4.02. Setting is -62/-3. Did you check volume knob is not in the far left position?)

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10 hours ago, battlecry said:

Jussi, are there changes to the hqp-control commands for HQPlayer Desktop 4?  I use php commands to change the filters, noise shaping, skip, pause, play etc. in version 3 and I'd like to continue to do so with version 4.  

 

Yes, some of the output has changed and some other changes have been made. So now the new version is called hqp-control2 both to avoid conflict on installations where both v3 and v4 are installed, and also to avoid script breakage due to the changes.

 

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31 minutes ago, fred_com said:

I've updated to 4.0.2 and suddenly there was no sound. DAC showed that it locked onto signal correctly, but there was silence. 

It seems that Jussi has fixed some bug with the volume control (or introduced new one ;)). Because it was working fine for me with the 60\0 volume in settings. But the volume did not work anyway for the DSD512 conversion.

Thanks to @StreamFidelity post, I've fixed the silence by setting min\max volume to 0\0. 

 

Please do not set it to 0/0. That will cause heavy limiting with most RedBook material! You need to leave about 3 dB of headroom for inter-sample overs!

 

I use -6/0 setting so -3 position is volume knob pointing up, allowing easy adjustment of few dB's up or down if needed. (for some material -3 dB is not enough)

 

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1 hour ago, LoryWiv said:

Really, really nice setup! Question for you: Can you do DSD 512 with high res pcm source files? I find that cpu load goes up considerably when FLAC source is 24 / 96 or 24 / 192 versus Redbook 16 / 44.1 kHz. Is that inevitable or is there a way to mitigate it with settings? Jussi, please weigh in if possible. Appreciated!

 

Load increases mostly due to conversion from 48k-base rate family to 44.1k-base rate family. But you can also deal with this by selecting different filter for 1x rates and Nx rates (>= 50 kHz).

 

Signalyst - Developer of HQPlayer

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3 hours ago, chriss0212 said:

Hi Miska

 

For playing Loopback wit higher sample rates I changed all sample rate in the system and it works. But a bit strange: to play for e.g. 88.2 I need to choose 44.1 in the drop down... 

 

Is this normal?

 

Greetings

 

Christian

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It is not normal, but log could tell why it happens...

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8 hours ago, lucretius said:

& 2019/05/09 20:12:03 Play
# 2019/05/09 20:12:03 clMainWindow::startPlay(): clHQPlayerEngine::Play(): Transport == NULL

 

Please do not post long logs as copy-paste here, because it makes the forum really hard to read...

 

When you select input from the list, hit enter after so the URI gets loaded to the playlist below... Now the transport was empty....

 

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2 hours ago, Miska said:

 

Please do not set it to 0/0. That will cause heavy limiting with most RedBook material! You need to leave about 3 dB of headroom for inter-sample overs!

 

I use -6/0 setting so -3 position is volume knob pointing up, allowing easy adjustment of few dB's up or down if needed. (for some material -3 dB is not enough)

 

But I thought volume didn't work for the case of converting PCM to DSD? It doesn't work for me anyway :) 

 

Update: Nevermind that - I've had the DirectSDM checked in DSD Source settings. Now volume works correctly.

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5 hours ago, chriss0212 said:

Hi Miska

 

For playing Loopback wit higher sample rates I changed all sample rate in the system and it works. But a bit strange: to play for e.g. 88.2 I need to choose 44.1 in the drop down.  Is this normal?

 

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Your screenshot shows 88.2 in the playlist, which is the only part that matters.  You must have selected 88.2 in the dropdown at some point, which caused it to appear in the playlist.  Apparently, you subsequently selected 44.1 in the dropdown, but HQP ignored the second selection.  Sometimes HQP ignores the dropdown selection unless you subsequently press the Return key.

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2 hours ago, Miska said:

When you select input from the list, hit enter after so the URI gets loaded to the playlist below... Now the transport was empty.

 

"URI gets loaded to the playlist below" is illustrated in the screenshot I copied in my immediately preceding post from post #14159:

https://audiophilestyle.com/forums/topic/19715-hq-player/?do=findComment&comment=956274

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On 5/8/2019 at 11:08 AM, AnotherSpin said:

Also, it seem the sound changed in 402 in comparison with 401. Back to 3?) @Le Concombre Masqué ?

I trashed 4.01 and won’t bother compare .01 & .02 but dare say I think they belong.

 

For better or worse 3 and 4.02 (referred to as 4 next) sound different. So much so that a favorite filter in 3 might become the worst or so in 4. I did my early comparison with my fav in 3, ext2, and I just can’t stand it anymore since 4 reveals it as smearing and blurring (IMO and configuration*, as all other statements).

 

I compared 3 and 4.02 with different filters and my preference varied based on content and filter. Short-lp and mqa-lp shone with 4, xtr-2s sounded better in 3 than in 4 on my test tracks.

 

Once I found out that I could be happy in a future with 4, provided I stay away from ex fav (ext2), I had the idea to test DSD sources to get rid of the filter influence factor. Jap SHM-SACD of Jarrett’s Standards Live was even more awful with 4 than with 3 but maybe it’s a wrong idea to pick an awful presentation to start with. I haven’t yet a clear definitive winner on other SACDs but often was struck by “a studio sound” repeated from SACD to SACD in 4 : both the wonder of a very pro/monitoring sound and the wondering of it being systematic or not.

 

I’ll quit back and forth testing and will now use 4 for my < to 30 min listening sessions and will find out my feeling, relief or frustration, at the end of the 30 days. Today I don’t feel like paying 200 for the upgrade, would probably out 100 just to stop thinking about it. I wish I had the money to sponsor 4 and back 100% those who do but, within my budget constraints, the priority to buy a new wetsuit etc,  I am thinking that I can wait till black Friday, whathaveyou, or a back in the game reseller's message advertising a discount.

 

* Configuration 

I think we need to be very thorough. Miska hasn’t answered my questions : “why do 3 and 4 sound different? and Am I preferring 3’s SQ for bad reasons?” but maybe will he share insightful opinions besides the fact that my OS is not supported (WS 2012 with PArkControl keeping the i7 3615 QM CPU @2.30  running @ 3+ with no parking of cores)…

 

I tried to respect default as much as I could (IIR/wide) but definitely promote the use of overlap-save, rather than add, when uspsampling DSD 64 to 128. I don’t know about higher rates but in the 64 to 128 case my convolution filters seem to “imprint “much better with Save. I don’t think it’s delirious : when creating filters in RePhase one can see the need for heavier work/iterations to get the job done, especially in the Low End. 

 

BTW: CPU/Memory charges are significantly heavier #35/50 (of 8GB) vs 25/32 in that case.

With PCM 192 it’s significantly higher too, up to 36/16 rather than 23/13. I see much higher charges published but if Miska thinks “a bad reason” could be computer driven too hard, I invite him to tell. To help cool things down a use a gamers’ board with mechanical fans.

 

Save is not as mandatory with PCM sources and might even be a debatable choice then. I.e. I’m perfectly happy with Add under Pipeline when playing 5.1 PCM content (as Stereo).

 

There has been a recent question about integrators, I definitely recommend the default IIR over CIC with 4. And am even back to it with 3 (in my system CIC is a “thickening” agent).

 

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14 hours ago, lucretius said:
On 5/8/2019 at 2:31 AM, Miska said:
On 5/7/2019 at 9:33 PM, lucretius said:

Yes, I have the Virtual Audio Cable selected as the input device.  I installed 4.0.2 and this still does not work.  ??

 

Are you getting same errors in the log? Now it even supports WASAPI shared mode as fallback if everything else fails... Maybe that virtual driver is broken is some other way...

 

Maybe they didn't want to bother creating DLL/DPLL to generate proper virtual sample clock for the audio and thus don't support event driven WASAPI mode at all. But it should still work in shared mode from Windows audio engine which runs it's own clock like CoreAudio on macOS...

 

5 hours ago, Miska said:
14 hours ago, lucretius said:

& 2019/05/09 20:12:03 Play
# 2019/05/09 20:12:03 clMainWindow::startPlay(): clHQPlayerEngine::Play(): Transport == NULL

 

When you select input from the list, hit enter after so the URI gets loaded to the playlist below... Now the transport was empty....

 

Thanks.  It works now.  But it's not intuitive to have to:

  1. Set the audio default (e.g. audio:default/44100/2) and hit enter to put it on the playlist; and
  2. Click on the item in the playlist so that it is loaded.

Also, regardless of the audio default (URI ?) chosen -- I tried both audio:default/44100/2 and audio:default/96000/2 (see below) -- when 44100/2 was set as default, the display above indicated Format: 44.1k/32/2 --> 11.2896M, regardless of the source stream sent to HQPlayer (I tried 44.1k, 96k, and 192k).  The result was similar when I set 96000/2 as the default: the display above indicated Format: 96k/32/2 --> 11.289M, regardless of the source stream sent.

 

 

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mQa is dead!

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2 hours ago, Le Concombre Masqué said:

I trashed 4.01 and won’t bother compare .01 & .02 but dare say I think they belong.

 

For better or worse 3 and 4.02 (referred to as 4 next) sound different. So much so that a favorite filter in 3 might become the worst or so in 4. I did my early comparison with my fav in 3, ext2, and I just can’t stand it anymore since 4 reveals it as smearing and blurring (IMO and configuration*, as all other statements).

 

I compared 3 and 4.02 with different filters and my preference varied based on content and filter. Short-lp and mqa-lp shone with 4, xtr-2s sounded better in 3 than in 4 on my test tracks.

 

Once I found out that I could be happy in a future with 4, provided I stay away from ex fav (ext2), I had the idea to test DSD sources to get rid of the filter influence factor. Jap SHM-SACD of Jarrett’s Standards Live was even more awful with 4 than with 3 but maybe it’s a wrong idea to pick an awful presentation to start with. I haven’t yet a clear definitive winner on other SACDs but often was struck by “a studio sound” repeated from SACD to SACD in 4 : both the wonder of a very pro/monitoring sound and the wondering of it being systematic or not.

 

I’ll quit back and forth testing and will now use 4 for my < to 30 min listening sessions and will find out my feeling, relief or frustration, at the end of the 30 days. Today I don’t feel like paying 200 for the upgrade, would probably out 100 just to stop thinking about it. I wish I had the money to sponsor 4 and back 100% those who do but, within my budget constraints, the priority to buy a new wetsuit etc,  I am thinking that I can wait till black Friday, whathaveyou, or a back in the game reseller's message advertising a discount.

 

* Configuration 

I think we need to be very thorough. Miska hasn’t answered my questions : “why do 3 and 4 sound different? and Am I preferring 3’s SQ for bad reasons?” but maybe will he share insightful opinions besides the fact that my OS is not supported (WS 2012 with PArkControl keeping the i7 3615 QM CPU @2.30  running @ 3+ with no parking of cores)…

 

I tried to respect default as much as I could (IIR/wide) but definitely promote the use of overlap-save, rather than add, when uspsampling DSD 64 to 128. I don’t know about higher rates but in the 64 to 128 case my convolution filters seem to “imprint “much better with Save. I don’t think it’s delirious : when creating filters in RePhase one can see the need for heavier work/iterations to get the job done, especially in the Low End. 

 

BTW: CPU/Memory charges are significantly heavier #35/50 (of 8GB) vs 25/32 in that case.

With PCM 192 it’s significantly higher too, up to 36/16 rather than 23/13. I see much higher charges published but if Miska thinks “a bad reason” could be computer driven too hard, I invite him to tell. To help cool things down a use a gamers’ board with mechanical fans.

 

Save is not as mandatory with PCM sources and might even be a debatable choice then. I.e. I’m perfectly happy with Add under Pipeline when playing 5.1 PCM content (as Stereo).

 

There has been a recent question about integrators, I definitely recommend the default IIR over CIC with 4. And am even back to it with 3 (in my system CIC is a “thickening” agent).

 

 

Very interesting! Please share your further findings.

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When I load the client, the library does not load automatically.  I have to highlight "localhost" (see below) and hit enter, then the library is loaded.  That is annoying.  The library should load automatically.

 

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Also, how do I change from this view:

 

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to this view (?):

 

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Thanks.

mQa is dead!

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