ASIO/ JRiver versus Windows Media

I am using HP presario laptop customized 500 gig hard drive and there is no partition for ram its all used.And I use WAV not Lossless to rip sorry kinda new to this. And I have a musiland 02 which handles USB to spidf (coax)and up samples 24/192 then to my DAC which is a musiland SVDAC06 and it accepts 24/192 and outputs it aswell. And before everyone kicks my equipment I plan on upgrading but I wanted to see what all the excitment was over computer audio was.So for now this is what I have and this already sounds better than my sony DVP-S7700 with emperical mods.Much deeper and higher soundstage and the detail is amazing so I am not unhappy just trying to learn. My amps are 2 plus John Wright modded Meitner STR-50,s and a tube amp made custom by Ideal Innovations and its SET using 2 6B4G or 6A3 which is an octal 2A3 and can be run ultra linear with a KT-88 or A 6550 and I prefer original Genalex Gold lions or Tung-Sol 6550. And I use a Audio gd preamp now and it replaced a Diva Audio M-7 pre with the outboard tube rectified power supply so it is very underestimated IMO.Thanks for the input!

Ok I have been working on this and finally I have my equpment and my gear synced up and NOW I hear a massive difference between wdm player and J River its night and day!!! Yes J river with ASIO and up sampled to 24/192 is definately the way to go! I agree now about windows being flat and haveing no dynamics.

I agree! As I said before this already beats my sony DVP-S7700 with emperical mods and I didnt think that was possible for as little as I have invested in this setup!Very surprised!

Actually it really does matter and many test have been done by independent companies on this and hp was #1 and dell was dead last. Its just like any other electronics bad grounds and cheap parts equal cheap sound.

no the test were to measure noise, signal fallout, drop signals, and noise on battery vs pluged in you know. The test had nothing to do with sound quality but those things add up to equal better sound.

they werent playing music just measuring which had the most extra measurable sound levels from internal components like fans screens hard drives and all the other noisy parts of a computer that could be measured through the usb along with all the 1 and 0,s. dell was the noisiest according to their test.