I even took pics of my HQPlayer setup parameters so he could dupe them. In fact a fellow audiophile buddy heard it and duplicated the setup excepting the dac as he used his existing gear (gotta reign it in somewhere :). Two weeks spent tuning the filter and I had a glorious sound coming from my digital rig (Mac mini with Uptone Audio linear power board and analog fan-kit internally replacing the nasty cheap stock smps along with the JS2 outboard linear supply, iFi iUSB 3, (2) iFi Gemini 3 usb cables, an iFi iPurifier3 and (2) iSilencers (1 is a “+” the other is the first gen) all feeding my AMR DP 777se. Team that with the fact that Roon, could divert its audio stream directly to HQPlayer and it was game over. After installing, tuning and finagling with the HQPlayer software I found it to be the best sounding audio engine I had yet to experience. I do recall that the sonics for PM would change from version to version and I recall reverting several times to previous versions because I was unhappy with changes I perceived in the sonics of subsequent versions.Įnter HQPlayer. I haven’t tried the latest version of PM so I have no clue how it sounds at this point in time. I didn’t buy into Roon at first because for all it’s slick features and convenience, it’s core audio engine simply couldn’t compete with PureMusic (which I much preferred over Amarra and Audirvana). The shear flexibility and fact that I no longer had to bother with maintaining an iTunes library that PureMusic “wrapped” was, well, music to my ears. So I have been a Roon user since about 2017 having purchased the lifetime license which was then $500.00, glad I did.

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