BITPERFECT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS FULL
I've used this program to easily play DSD64 and DSD128 to the TEAC DAC with DoP including DST decoding and have since registered the full version. This is of course the "original" version since the PC release came first and only recently ported over to OS X. JRiver Media Center for Windows - I previously looked at this player for Mac. Furthermore, I installed the SACD Decoder plug-in for DSD playback - works great (remember to run the ASIOProxy plugin, configure the ASIO settings, and go to Tools -> SACD to make sure it's not transcoding to PCM).Ģ.
BITPERFECT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS DRIVER
Tested with the ASIO driver and WASAPI (event style). For this test, I ran version 1.2.6 with ASIO plugin version 2.1.2. It makes no pretensions about sounding "better" than anything else - just bit-perfect - nothing more, nothing less. In terms of sound "quality", foobar intends to "just work". ABX comparator is great for controlled evaluation of sound quality.
I generally use the ASIO plugin for most of my DAC's to ensure bit-perfect data transfer. The dynamic range (DR) plug-in comes in very useful to check for severity of dynamic range compression among different "pressings". foobar2000 - Free, highly configurable, fully functional, a myriad of plug-ins including support for all major file formats, this is my daily workhorse for playback on my Windows machines. Here then are the candidates for the test:ġ. This week, I turned my attention over to the Windows platform. Since my hardware was already set-up with the Mac, I did the software measurements with that platform first ( results here). The fact is, there is so much going on the in the hardware level such as OS and USB buffering, DAC buffering, driver-interface interactions that are just beyond the "reach" of the player software that it really makes no sense IMO for any software developer to make such claims! Note that already there have been tests questioning these claims (here's a nice one from Mitch over on the Computer Audiophile between JPLAY vs. Close to a month back, after publishing my TEAC UD-501 results, someone E-mailed me about the use of JPLAY with this DAC.Īlthough I had not tried the program yet, it begs the question, how's it possible that JPLAY could sound any different? JPLAY is described as a bit-perfect player openly discussed in the FAQ but if you look at items 5 & 6, they seem to imply that "timing is everything" and somehow, an optimized software player can make a difference.
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