ASIO/ JRiver versus Windows Media

I am using HP presario laptop customized 500 gig hard drive and there is no partition for ram its all used.And I use WAV not Lossless to rip sorry kinda new to this. And I have a musiland 02 which handles USB to spidf (coax)and up samples 24/192 then to my DAC which is a musiland SVDAC06 and it accepts 24/192 and outputs it aswell. And before everyone kicks my equipment I plan on upgrading but I wanted to see what all the excitment was over computer audio was.So for now this is what I have and this already sounds better than my sony DVP-S7700 with emperical mods.Much deeper and higher soundstage and the detail is amazing so I am not unhappy just trying to learn. My amps are 2 plus John Wright modded Meitner STR-50,s and a tube amp made custom by Ideal Innovations and its SET using 2 6B4G or 6A3 which is an octal 2A3 and can be run ultra linear with a KT-88 or A 6550 and I prefer original Genalex Gold lions or Tung-Sol 6550. And I use a Audio gd preamp now and it replaced a Diva Audio M-7 pre with the outboard tube rectified power supply so it is very underestimated IMO.Thanks for the input!

Hi Jay,
Since you are just sending PCM to your USB port, if you hear differences it is because one of the players is changing the "bitstream". I've never used WMP or tried to set it up for playback. J. River Media player can be configured to not alter the PCM bitsream.

There's nothing wrong with media players changing the sound (EQ, etc) if that's what sounds best to you. OTOH, some people just want the bits to go from the CD, to a file, then when played, be sent out to a DAC just as though the DAC was getting bits from a CD transport.

larry

Ok I have been working on this and finally I have my equpment and my gear synced up and NOW I hear a massive difference between wdm player and J River its night and day!!! Yes J river with ASIO and up sampled to 24/192 is definately the way to go! I agree now about windows being flat and haveing no dynamics.

Cool. Enjoy listening. I am actually pretty amazed at how good my PC sounds.

I agree! As I said before this already beats my sony DVP-S7700 with emperical mods and I didnt think that was possible for as little as I have invested in this setup!Very surprised!