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ASIO/ JRiver versus Windows Media

I have both and I think media player has a more forward sound more presence/midrange and ASIO/J River is more laid back in the midrange. I was wondering if you guys have any other observations that could be useful. I dont compress any audio I rip Lossless and I cant just use one or the other depending on the artist and I have found live albums sound better with windows so please leave your thoughts on this or a way around this. Thanks A-gon community!
jayb77

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cerrot
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Cool. Enjoy listening. I am actually pretty amazed at how good my PC sounds.
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On my rig, Gateway dual core, 4 gigs ram, windows 7 - windows media sounds flat, undeminsenional, pretty poor. I have firewire going into am M-audio solo spidf converter-into Monarchy DIP Upsampler, into XDAC V3with PSU into a Cayin A50T/B&M 685's. The J River with WASAPI sounds awesome. Transparent, detail, resolving, non-fatiguing, excellent instrumnet placement, deep and wide soundstage. I didn't get any of that with windows media. I am going by very good quality recordings.
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