![]() There is a much more airy stereo image and more refinement and fluidity audible in the soundstage. The step from WMP to Foobar is a big one. ![]() FoobarĪnd fortunately… Foobar does deliver! We used the ASIO plugin as well as the RAM buffer plugin to give the playback a bit of a boost. Actually, we are inclined to shut this media player down so we can move quickly to the other software. It sounds rough, edgy and flat.The music seems boxed and undone of liveliness. ![]() Windows Media Player frankly doesn’t make us very happy. Front speakers are set to full-range in the driver. We start with Windows Media Player in standard settings. The other two did not know so it is a blind test. One (Jaap) switched the applications and thus knew what was playing. But that will not soon happen at home, since it is unlikely that you both run ROON Bridge and JRiver and Audirvana and Foobar.įor this test, we just close the software over and over again, but you will see we still have to fix some issues every now and then during the stream. That gives occasional issues because sometimes the driver is not available. We use the Sonnet ASIO drivers to connect the Pasithea to the software. But the Titan is not in use, as the ASR is battery-powered. The Isotek Aquarius delivers clean power to the Sonnet. This amplifier drives our TAD Evolution Two speakers.Ĭabling is – as you may be used to by now – a mix of YETI power cables with Driade Reference Flow speaker cable and Grimm TPM interlinks. This Shuttle mini-PC runs a single USB cable to our Sonnet Pasithea d/a converter which then goes to an ASR Emitter 1 amplifier. Therefore, we set up a simple Shuttle mini-PC running Windows 10 on which we will install the software. We want to change as little as possible in this test. Also, at the end of the livestream we will do some experimentation with a Macbook and a regular PC. This is a summary of the nearly four-hour livestream. There we go into more detail about the differences and the software itself. Were there differences? Well… read on!įor those of your who want to experience the entire discussion, we refer to the livestream. Finally, we also hooked up a Macbook Pro so we could compare it to the PC we used in the test. The latter application is free, the other three are not. As a baseline, we used Windows Media Player and consequently listened to Audirvana, ROON, JRiver and Foobar. 23, we hosted a livestream in our Alpha Audio listening room.
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