With trial, PCM output is also limited to bit instead of bit on full. When there's time If you don't need a long test file, you can also use the HQPlayer 4 Pro trial for digital domain conversions back and forth. Will at least let me know if it could just be the Oppo. What I can do I suppose is to try capturing that modulator noise floor test with another DAC and see if it's there.
Also, some of the differences between settings are, at least partially, masked by the modulator noise of your ADC. What would be interesting to find out here is where that "noise anomaly" comes from, the modulator itself or the DAC. The analogue captures are of course interesting in their own right, demonstrating how the playback device responds to different types of input.
Plus this allowed me to actually listen to the output along with run the measurements to compare with JRiver, etc Nice to also use the actual recorded analogue output to demonstrate the effect of the bit dithering for readers who may not have thought about these things.Ī virtual sound device driver that dumps the data to disk ought to do the trick. Not sure if there's a reasonably straight forward alternate way to do it? I have a vested interest to see how HQPlayer functions in "real life" with my computer and Oppo of course. JRiver & HQPlayer Tutorial - english versionĪdmittedly, I didn't spend much time on this so maybe could work out. I did look at the simple way of capturing the digital data via Audacity ASIO loopback but it looks like it's not letting me by insisting on exclusive control. Why didn't you do a digital capture of the output? No worries, take your time to digest! I started writing this piece by piece over the last 3 weeks gathering the data Clearly there's lots of stuff to take in and be familiar with in this program.