CJH Posted September 7, 2023 Share Posted September 7, 2023 Dusk 9 hours ago, dusk said: so I just realized that the speakers I am currently outputting HQplayer > Chord Hugo2 to have their own DAC, even in analog mode genelec 8361a the on board dac is limited to 24/192kHz, so it doesn't make sense to send PCM > chord upsample to 768 to analog > genelec downsample to 192 digital > analog - the sound gets pretty muddy during high intensity pieces. They do not do DSD at all. I since took the chord out of the chain and hooked my holo red directly to the AES and the presentation is much cleaner (I had to boost each speaker output by 12db gain to get the slam I wanted) I know most people here use HQplayer to max out the frequency, but I'm finding it rather enjoyable with the dither compared to not using HQPlayer at all, there is def a huge difference to my ears. I don't see much if any talk about optimizing for 24/192 dacs, but what are optimal settings for my specific setup? I read through the manual and came up with the settings I think make the most sense for my use case: NS9 dither to take advantage of 4x rates (176.4/192) setting the output of HQplayer to 24/192 sinc-long most of the time (sounds the best to my ears from the ones I've tested) sinc-MGa (local FLAC) or poly-sinc gauss-hires-lp (tidal MQA) if I get crazy Apod numbers am I on the right track or missing something? (maybe down the road I'll upgrade to pmc mb2s xbd with pass labs amps and a T+A dac/streamer, but for now, I have to work with what I got, which is already pretty amazing :) thanks! While the Genelec accepts 24/192 digital input, it may downsample and do all its processing at 24/96. So, 24/96 may be the better choice. CJH dusk 1 Link to comment
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