HQ Player and Lampi DSD DAC

[Jabs1542]

I just received my Lampi DSD DAC today and am trying to get it configured to work with HQPlayer. Note that I tested the DAC and it works fine playing DSD from JRiver (drivers downloaded etc). This question is for Lampi owners running HQPlayer - how do you have the player configured?

 

Here is what I have:

File>DSDIFF/DSD Settings

- DirectSDM: not checked

- 6 dB Gain: not checked

- Conversion type: ploy-short-mp

- Noise Filter: standard

- Integrator: IIR

 

File>Settings

- Backend: ASIO

- Device: Combo384 ASIO 1.03

- Channels: 2

- Channel Offset: 0

- SDM Pack: DoP (I also tried "none")

- Buffer time: Default

- DAC bits: Default

skipping a PCM defaults since I am only playing DSD

SDM Defaults

- Oversampling: ploy-sinc-shrt-2s

- Modulator: DSD5v2

- Bit rate (/limit): 2822400

 

Any clues out there? Thanks - Jay

[Jabs1542]

Got it! Funny, after typing the message I saw some relationships and needed to try a combination of things. This works, all above with the following exceptions:

File>DSDIFF/DSD Settings

- DirectSDM: checked

File>Settings

- SDM Pack: none

under SDM Defaults

- Bit Rate (/limit): 5644800

 

Now to enjoy some music while this thing breaks in

[Miska]

- SDM Pack: DoP (I also tried "none")

 

Set this one to "none"...

 

- Bit rate (/limit): 2822400

 

Lampi should be capable of DSD128 (5.6 MHz), so I would propose selecting that here... Maybe 6.1 MHz is supported too?

[4est]

Let us know what you think of it. I'd love to hear one!

Got it! Funny, after typing the message I saw some relationships and needed to try a combination of things. This works, all above with the following exceptions:

File>DSDIFF/DSD Settings

- DirectSDM: checked

File>Settings

- SDM Pack: none

under SDM Defaults

- Bit Rate (/limit): 5644800

 

Now to enjoy some music while this thing breaks in

[Jabs1542]

Currently (having been played a whopping 2 hours) it's a little gritty in the upper mids and a little flabby in the bass. But then this was to be expected after reading what others had posted. I read that 100 hours of break in is minimal and 200 hours is about right, so I'll leave it on streaming DSD for 24 by approximately 8 or 9 days before I start to get serious.

 

However, I have already heard some sounds I had never heard before. Example, Squirrel Nut Zippers' Hell, right when he sings "I can hear the old man stompin his feet" it plays a subterranean bass rumble - inaudible but shook the hell out of the room - clearly the old man was stompin his feet! BTW, this was RBCD through the HQPlayer.

 

I have been rediscovering my CD collection thanks to Miska

[petepugli]

I recently bought a Lampi DSD as well. HQplayer sounds the best on my system and I have followed the settings you mentioned above except I am running off a Mac so I use DOP. However, I can't get MP3 files to go into the library. All other files play. Any advice. Thanks

[Jabs1542]

I recently bought a Lampi DSD as well. HQplayer sounds the best on my system and I have followed the settings you mentioned above except I am running off a Mac so I use DOP. However, I can't get MP3 files to go into the library. All other files play. Any advice. Thanks

 

Sorry I can't help with the MP3 files, I revised my library and settled on FLAC and DSF. However, what settings did you use to get HQPlayer to stream to the Lampi using DoP? I never could get DoP to work (I miss the remote volume control).

[AnotherSpin]

However, I can't get MP3 files to go into the library. All other files play. Any advice. Thanks

Ape is not recognisable by HQP either... If I want to play these formats in HQP I convert files before each play with free XLD converter and trash thereafter.

[petepugli]

Thanks for the info. It really is amazing the player just wish it could play mp3. Still have so many files in mp3 and I play mostly playlists mixed with everything from DSD to really small files downloaded from the internet in the 90s of bootleg shows. Maybe this will be something HQplayer adds in the future.

[petepugli]

Hey Jabs1542 - I used the following settings but since I am on a MAC I needed to select core audio in backend and then click on DoP. Its the only way I can get it to work with the MAC.

[Miska]

Thanks for the info. It really is amazing the player just wish it could play mp3. Still have so many files in mp3 and I play mostly playlists mixed with everything from DSD to really small files downloaded from the internet in the 90s of bootleg shows. Maybe this will be something HQplayer adds in the future.

 

License for MP3 decoder would multiply the player license price at current sales volumes.

[Jabs1542]

Update: I just received a SOtM SMS-100 (with the matching battery power supply) and now have it working with HQP and my Lampi DSD. Instructions for this were rather vague or nonexistent, so here are a few tips.

 

Once the SMS-100 is up and running you can launch HQP and go to File | Settings, in that dialog box you will change your selection for Backend (currently it is probably pointed to your DAC's ASIO driver). The drop down listbox now offers NetworkAudioAdapter as an option - select this. If you are lucky then the next box below (Device) will have an option for your DAC's ASIO driver (it may be he same for WASAPI).

 

I was was not that lucky but figured it out. The SMS-100 likes to send its DSD data as DoP. Once I selected the DoP option in the SDM Pack drop down listbox my Device input box populated properly.

 

An SMS-100 issue to deal with as well. Before you do all of this, right after you get the SMS-100 to boot and you can hit the device's webpage with a browser you will want to go to Apps | Audio App Switcher. By default the DLNA/MPD service will be running, you want to turn that off and turn on HQPlayer NAA. Once this is done your SMS-100 is setup ready to receive data from HQP NAA via Ethernet.

 

Final note: The user manual for the SMS-100 on the Sonore website is old. HQPlayer is now one of the main options on the device and is in the App Switcher list, it is now easy peasy to setup the SMS-100 for HQP NAA.