Winamp will work - that's good news. Are you using that last .exe that they did?
Best Sounding Computer Audio Player For PC
I have been using Foobar2000 to play computer audio through my DAC. It is simple and straight forward. But I am wondering if there is a better sounding players out there. I tried JRiver and thought the sound was slightly better. But JRiver is designed for not only music but video and well as photos. There is a lot of overhead that I really don't need or want.
So what other audio players have better sound than Foobar2000?
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mwelbourne Winamp will work - that's good news. Are you using that last .exe that they did?No, I'm using v5.666 Build 3516. It's very stable and useful. |
@mwelbourne, If you've never heard music sound better than from an mp3, you need to get out of the house more or just invest in something better. Storage is getting pretty cheap, no reason not to store larger better sounding file formats. Ripped redbook CDs from your local library will be a big improvement. Good high rez files usually even more so. @lostbears So what have done since 2016 on the topics discussed? Cheers, Spencer |
XXHE is the endgame for music players if SQ is top priority. Firstly, the base player itself is superb in terms of resolution. I do find it sounds oddly veiled sometimes but its the complete opposite to other players that all have some degree of glare/harshness. so it can feel lacking in clarity or crispness but actual detail and timbre is the best youll get. There are tons of settings to mess with, it can be very confusing but isnt something to worry about, once you get more comfortable you can start experimenting and get some further slight improvements to SQ. Now thats the just the player, XXHE comes with a plethora of features that tweak your PC to sound better. memory tweaks, CPU tweaks, disabling services automatically , dramatically reducing background OS tasks, completely shutting down GUI during playing. It is already a great player compared to most but when you utilize all these features it is on a whole other level to other software. The UI is pretty horrible looking but not too difficult to used to, I actually find HQPlayer to be less ergonomic and fluid to control even though it looks better but dont expect anything as comfortable or customization as jriver or foobar. A huge drawback compared to other players is no native DSD support (but you can actually encode DSD as DoP in a PCM package and it will play) A benefit over HQplayer is lossy file playback it has a free trial so Id highly recommend trying it out, the full version has most of the extreme SQ tweaks though. |
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