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What software has good sound quality?

I recently configured a pc to play music (cd rips) and movies (blu ray mkv files) from my pc. It is a dell optiplex micro using windows 10 send via usb to a usb to s/pdif converter to my dac (a monarchy audio M24). I am looking for recommendations for software for the best possible sound quality for music and movies. I have tried jriver (sounds warm), mpc hc (sounds punchier with more bass) and foobar (sounds more detailed - and only for music). Any thoughts would be very welcome and appreciated. Thank you.   

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Guarandamteed streaming software can and may well in fact sound different. No two programs are exactly the same.

Add Roon to the list. Last time I compared a couple years back it was way better than Plex, even playing “vanilla” with no dsp. Add the right built in Roon dsp filters to season to personal taste.

Well executed DSP is a requirement for me now with any streaming. Roon does it very well.

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