Well since you’ve decided to enter the conversation, maybe you would be kind enough to answer the many questions that I’ve asked that have not been answered. I would welcome your input. What exactly is the audible benefit of hqplayer. I know that it is a audio player with a multitude of conversion and upsampling features. Do those provide the audible benefit, or is it something else, or is there no audible benefit?Octave Music Don Grusin High Resolution Music Analysis (Video)
But then you are not staying in native 24-bit! :D It is not native 24-bit processing anymore! :facepalm: Windows audio pipeline uses shoggy 32-bit floating point just like macOS CoreAudio too. HQPlayer uses 64-bit, 80-bit, 128-bit or arbitrary precision math for PCM as necessary. If you...audiosciencereview.com
Oh yeah, and no DSD involved
Miska has posted measurements on a few forums over the past many years.
Like he said, you need to look around.
Even various threads on ASR.
Join those threads and ask questions and others with the time can answer.
Many measurements have been posted, I’m sure, but I have not found one objective test result. Point me to those.