Volume from digital sources
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Re: Volume from digital sources
Digital volume control does seem to mess music up. I avoid it - Raspberry Pi Dac cards which don't have the feature or, if they have the feature, turn it off. JRiver I haven't used for serious listening for some time now but I know I used asio output and I bypassed all the processing on the soundcard and I think I ended up bypassing the volume as well.
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Re: Volume from digital sources
Foobar2000?Fretless wrote:Good free music players for Windows include:
Apollo 37zz - simple, excellent quality audio (my favourite).
JetAudio Basic - good all-round media player
VLC - good simple video player, does music as well.
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Re: Volume from digital sources
Yes Foobar, very powerful and flexible with loads of add-on components. Can be a pain to set up though, for the less-experienced user.
Also terrific SQ.
Also terrific SQ.
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Re: Volume from digital sources
I use Foobar and just needed to set the volume levelling feature off - couldn't hear a bloody difference but it makes me feel better
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Re: Volume from digital sources
I go with the Doc here - Raspberry Pi is a bit of a dead end, when you can take the output of a tablet or laptop and feed it into a pukka external DAC, even the ancient twin-supply QED I bought for initially a giggle - adding the second supply soon wiped the smug grin from my face!terrybooth wrote:Digital volume control does seem to mess music up. I avoid it - Raspberry Pi Dac cards which don't have the feature or, if they have the feature, turn it off. JRiver I haven't used for serious listening for some time now but I know I used asio output and I bypassed all the processing on the soundcard and I think I ended up bypassing the volume as well.
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Re: Volume from digital sources
I seriously can't believe the quality coming off my laptop, it is better than the TFS, but most of that is because DAC I am using is miles better than the one in the TFS. A TFS run into my DAC maybe would be better again.
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Re: Volume from digital sources
As long as the digital stream is clean for the Sony to deal with - and it obviously is - I wouldn't think about it again...
My Digit Opto has a Positron supply on the main unit and a Caiman supply for the audio output (with a Squeezebox add-on filter from Mark Grant which did help a little). Positrons now go used with Digits and are fetching stupid money now, considering some supply cheap and nasty caps inside the Positron need replacing (mine were leaking)
My Digit Opto has a Positron supply on the main unit and a Caiman supply for the audio output (with a Squeezebox add-on filter from Mark Grant which did help a little). Positrons now go used with Digits and are fetching stupid money now, considering some supply cheap and nasty caps inside the Positron need replacing (mine were leaking)
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