Want to purchase HQPlayer, but about it's more robust features?

[firedog]

I think you are making it too complicated. Just try some of the filters/modulators and see if you like the sound. That's really all there is to it. If you like it and think you will use it, buy it.

[firedog]

29 minutes ago, vvcv said:

Thanks Solstice. Geez, this really explains things for me. So, in a sense, or rather a very real actuality, any DAC that does not support NOS should not be used with HQP due to the DACs filters defeating the work the HQP filters do? If this is the case, someone mentioned that I would not need new hardware to use HQP --more accurately, to use HQP with its filters. It sounds like having a NOS DAC is what I need to hear the real benefits of HQP.

 

As a side question to this, do DACs that claim to support Native DSD put a filter in the signals path?

 

The Lampizator DAC looks interesting, which model do you have and how do you like it?

Not exactly as  you are describing it. Any DAC outputting analog is going to have some kind of filter. 

Some DACs have a native DSD mode and don't alter DSD sent at that mode; some  DACs will take a file and only do the amount of upsampling necessary: so if you feed them their "native" upsampling rate, they won't do more upsampling. 

In short, you don't need a NOS DAC to benefit from HQP. HQP takes some of the computing load off the DAC, and many think it's moduators/filters are superior to those found in most DACs. If you agree and use it, you get this benefit. 

[firedog]

It depends on the design of the DAC chip and also how the DAC maker implements it. You can have 2 DACs based on the same chip that handle it differently. In any case, the DAC doesn't necessarily  erase all of the benefit of using HQP.