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RE: player for windows computer

bertucciandy@yahoo.com:
I think as you can tell from the responses, it really depends. There is no universally agreed upon "best sounding player" for Windows (or Mac for that matter). In fact, some like myself fail to see how programs make any difference at all so long as they're functioning without buffer issues when used with proper drivers like ASIO, WASAPI, or Kernel Streaming. That is of course, if you're just interested in straight forward bit-perfect output and not aiming for DSP upsampling, etc.

I do of course have preferences based on esthetics and features. I mostly use foobar for basic playback and for the flexibility of plug-ins like DTS decoding, reading CUE sheets, even the occasional DSD decoding.

JRiver works well for other things like DSD playback either natively with ASIO or DoP, PCM to DSD "upsampling", and the Gizmo app for Android works fast for music selection.

I just wouldn't say either JRiver or foobar sound better when playing back with the same driver (like ASIO) though...

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