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PC Media Players - significant SQ differences?

I have been trying some of the media players offered on the net like Media Monkey and Songbird. What I don't understand is why does VLC sound so much better? the other 2 players make the sound veiled. Is there a PC setting or program setting that needs to be adjusted on the other players or is VLC that much better, the difference is significant. FYI I am playing FLAC files from a laptop to a MyDac.
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audioengr
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This is a complex question. There are mixers,CODECs and DSP as well as floating-point math in the players. Any of these can have issues or bugs and they usually do. Offset, which is the number of leading nulls before the first bit of music starts also matters. Some players change this.

It is well-known that using itunes on a PC sounds a lot different than on a Mac for instance. Even different revisions of the same player can sound different, ala Amara and Pure Music.

I dont understand exactly why eqch player sounds different,but I have discovered over time which are the best sounding ones.

Steve N.
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