Memory Player vs Dedicated PC-TopUSB Conv and DAC

Well I just setup my fist PC for AUDIO, the system consists of Intel Board, Core 2 Duo 2.0Ghz and EM-U 1212m soundcard, streaming music to the digital input of my Audio Aero Prestige.

The results have great;
1) The first piece of software that I tried was foobar with ASIO drives @ 44.1 in slave mode (The WORD clock used was of the Audio Aero) with this software I heard the imaging being slightly more stable and a fuller body, when comparing the sound to the transport of the player on the fly, we came to the conclusion the sound was slight more natural on the AA rather than the computer being used as a transport.

Next I tried this new player called XXHighend, installed it on my XP choose engine #1 and hit play......It bettered the AA transport!!! the sound has the ease the natural feel of the AA plus added more resolution, the image was far more stable, also the TONE was right not like in foobar where something felt a miss. From what I understand after reading about this player is that doesn't care about ASIO OR KS..... its proprietary to the way the playback takes place very similar to the Memory player.

First the WAV is read and send to the RAM and from the RAM the stream is sent out of the sound card!

Everyone must give this player a listen, I'm quite certain you will be pleased with what you hear.

Best Regards,

Satyam Bachani.

Hello,

I started the PC Audio Transport project for one reason only that is for the convenience of cataloging my entire Music collection. All I wanted to achieve was the same SQ of the Audio Aero Prestige player with a external PC transport but now this bettering the current setup this looks very promising, surely I believe now that PC will be the preferred way to play digital audio very soon in the audiophile industry also it has the convince of playing one's full music collection on the fly.

It wont be long before one would have STATE-OF-THE-ART digital playback for a fraction of the price one pays today!!!

Best Regards,

Satyam Bachani.

I too would love to hear from others a comparison of the Memory Player (Transport) V/S a well tweaked computer, at the moment I think Winamp with ASIO plugin + the sound card set at a latency of 2ms is as good or better than XXHighEnd player and most certainly ahead of the TRANSPORT of the AA. This is great as its free.

This project is the most exciting thing in the four years I have been in this hobby.

Best Regards,

Satyam Bachani.