HQplayer 4 and Mac-mini M1

[Bushikai]

Hello,

 

Anyone try Hqplayer 4 with the new Mac mini M1, DSD256?

 

Thank you.

[Miska]

4 hours ago, Bushikai said:

Anyone try Hqplayer 4 with the new Mac mini M1, DSD256?

 

Yes, works fine from RedBook to DSD256 with poly-sinc-ext2 and ASDM7EC. And from higher rates with -2s filters and ASDM7EC. See the HQPlayer thread for more details.

 

[Bushikai]

Hello, What is RedBook?

 

[ericuco]

19 minutes ago, Bushikai said:

Hello, What is RedBook?

 

 
Redbook = CD Quality (16/44.1)

[bibo01]

20 minutes ago, Bushikai said:

Hello, What is RedBook?

 

It is the distribution standard for music CDs, that is PCM 16bit / 44.1 kHz.

[Bushikai]

Thank you.

 

[Bushikai]

On 12/16/2020 at 5:20 PM, Miska said:

 

Yes, works fine from RedBook to DSD256 with poly-sinc-ext2 and ASDM7EC. And from higher rates with -2s filters and ASDM7EC. See the HQPlayer thread for more details.

 

Any update son the Mac mini? will it work without problems on DSD256?

[Miska]

13 minutes ago, Bushikai said:

Any update son the Mac mini? will it work without problems on DSD256?

 

My earlier statement still applies the same.

 

[Bushikai]

Hello, Anyone else try Hqplayer 4 with the new Mac mini M1, DSD256.

 

Mac mini M1 or Mac mini I7 ????

[pis99]

M1 does the 7EC 256DSD without any problem! Make sure you have NAA to to work with OSX.

[Bushikai]

I'm waiting for my I7. What is NAA?

 

[jkenton]

Jussi / Miska,

I presently have a I7 2012 MacMini which has served me well. I see the benefit of the new MacMini M1 with increased processing horsepower. Problem is, there is no aftermarket outboard power supply / fan controller (ie. MMK from UpTone Audio) that I know of. 
Is the fan noise objectionable?

Is the internal power supply polluting the sound quality?

[Miska]

1 minute ago, jkenton said:

Is the fan noise objectionable?

 

Not in my opinion if the machine is not very close to your listening position. If you go about 50 cm behind the Mac Mini you can hear the fan. Two meters front of Mac Mini you would need a very quiet room to hear it. At least my unit (you never know if every fan they install is the same (ie. what kind of manufacturing tolerances the fans have).

 

4 minutes ago, jkenton said:

Is the internal power supply polluting the sound quality?

 

I don't know yet, I have not measured any DACs directly connected to it. At my office I have Mac Mini on the office desk while in the device rack 2 meters front of the desk has NAA and Holo Spring DAC. So I've been just playing to the NAA. In which case the PSU cannot pollute the sound.

 

[jkenton]

Unfortunately I do not have NAA, rather have two 5 bay Drobo units - one is directly connected via Thunderbolt, second connected via USB.

[giordy60]

a question
is there any user who with a mac mini M1 (+ NAA) and a dac holo audio or denefrips has tried the upsampling in pcm 1.411-1.536 mhz?
thank you

[Miska]

On 2/7/2021 at 3:14 PM, giordy60 said:

is there any user who with a mac mini M1 (+ NAA) and a dac holo audio or denefrips has tried the upsampling in pcm 1.411-1.536 mhz?

 

Yes...

[giordy60]

so it works, has no micro-interruptions?

 

[Miska]

20 minutes ago, giordy60 said:

so it works, has no micro-interruptions?

 

 

Yes it should work fine, of course depending on filters etc.

 

[giordy60]

thanks Jussi 👍

[anhton82]

Hi I am going to buy a Mac mini M1 to run HQPlayer and Roon core and Sotm Sms 200 for NNA ! Pls recommend which model 16Gb Ram or 8Ram is enough for HQPlayer ? Thanks a lot.

[Miska]

For HQPlayer 8 GB should be enough, but I've heard rumors that 8 GB models tend to wear out the flash storage fairly quickly due to extensive swapping.

 

[SwissBear]

On 3/18/2021 at 4:25 PM, Miska said:

For HQPlayer 8 GB should be enough, but I've heard rumors that 8 GB models tend to wear out the flash storage fairly quickly due to extensive swapping.

 

 

As shown here, in case the usage is limited to HQPlayer, there does not seem much memory swap involved, even with 8Gb RAM.

 

[fishflower]

On 1/26/2021 at 8:20 PM, pis99 said:

M1 does the 7EC 256DSD without any problem! Make sure you have NAA to to work with OSX.

All filters? Does this include 7ec-xtr?7ec-sin_L?

[Bob Stern]

On 3/18/2021 at 8:25 AM, Miska said:

For HQPlayer 8 GB should be enough, but I've heard rumors that 8 GB models tend to wear out the flash storage fairly quickly due to extensive swapping.

 

Like you, I've read reports of peculiarly heavy use of swap storage on a 8 GB M1 Mini when the programs running didn’t seem to be using anywhere near that much RAM.  So 16 GB seems safest.

[pis99]

On 4/1/2021 at 10:33 PM, fishflower said:

All filters? Does this include 7ec-xtr?7ec-sin_L?

Yes, 7ec-sin_L does work in M1 as I listen to mostly original DSD files. If you want to do 44.1 to 7ec-sin-L, you can achieve this with another upsampling of 44.1 to 64 DSD(eg. Roon) before feeding HQplayer.