
Many AVRs also resample internally to 48, 96 or 192 kHz, with the HQPlayer, these can be fed at the native rate. Higher quality oversampling and delta-sigma modulation can be done by utilizing vast mount of processing power available in modern PCs. HQPlayer also features several selectable high quality upsampling and downsampling algorithms as well as selectable dither, noise shaping and modulator algorithms.Īll modern DACs employ oversampling and delta-sigma modulation, however the hardware implementations are more or less resource constrained.

HQPlayer is a high quality audio player for Windows, Linux and macOS. Light weight desktop-GUI to lower graphics noise "Dual wire" channel bonding support to reach 2x rates, PCM and DoP (DSD) Smooth level limiter for clipped material Support for ID3v2 tags on AIFF, DSF and WAV files (versions 2.2, 2.3 and 2.4) Network endpoint support with Signalyst Asynchronous Network Audio Adapters Matrix processing for routing, filtering and mixing channels with gain, for PCM/DSD contentīypasses operating system software mixer and sample rate conversion Speaker configuration for multichannel playback (delay and level) for PCM and SDM (DSD) Playback of stereo, 2.1, 3.0, quadrophonic, 3.1, 5.0, 5.1 and 7.1 channel material Native/direct playback of DSF/DSDIFF files (ASIO DSD, DoP v1.1 with both 0x05/0xFA and 0x06/0xF9 markers) Selectable algoritm and noise filters for DSF/DSDIFF PCM playback (11 / 8 options)

Playback of DSF/DSDIFF files through any supported audio interface (PCM conversion and DSD rate conversion) Software-based digital volume control for PCM and SDM (DSD) Optional high-frequency expansion for the convolution engine Selectable convolution algorithm (FIR) for equalization, such as digital room correction (2 options), for PCM/DSD content Selectable dithering / noise shaping algorithm (9 options) Software upsampling / downsampling with selectable algorithm up to 32-bit 1.536 MHz or down to 8-bit 32 kHz PCM (28 options, most "apodizing")ĭelta-Sigma modulators for upsampling PCM/DSD content up to 98.304 MHz 1-bit SDM (11 modulators, 30 PCM oversampling options and 2 DSD rate converters)

HQPlayer 4 Desktop - upsampling multichannel audio player for Windows.
