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I hope the following link will help you: https://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/WASAPI_Event_Style According to jriver, (PUSH) is just more compatible to older hardware and both (PUSH) and (EVENT) will basically sound to same. Cheers.

I didn't believe it before. I added one $200 power cable (just out of curiosity) few years ago for my DAC. I found it did make my system sound much better. Since then, I started spending money on cables. Now I am having about a dozen good quality cables, including 3 Cardas Clear/Clear Beyond for just my DAC, preamp, and poweramp. For those who don't believe in cables can make a difference (I was one of them before), they surely say I must be mad in spending such amount of money on power cables.

Hope update will come soon. Glad to know you like it. By the way, I am now doing the same boring thing ... reorganising my music folders. Seems a never-ending job. >_<

For same reason, I am still using foo_input_sacd 0.8.4, but together with the latest version ASIO Proxy 0.9.4.

Try to search for servers under the 'LAN' tab. See if your NAS server can be discovered. I can see my QNAP NAS and all folders inside without asking me to log in, but fail to open the share folders directly ... the app always hangs whenever trying to do so. You can try to see if you have a better luck than me. I hope this can be fixed in future. Meanwhile, I tried 2 temporary workarounds: 1. The app can access MinimServer installed on my NAS and play FLACs, WAVs, DFFs, DSFs without problem, but for some reason, the songs are sorted in alphabetcal order and not according to their track numbers. Also, I can't play SACD ISO because MinimServer can't stream ISO, and I think at present no software music server can do so. Most important, this forfeited my main purpose of using this app to play SACD ISOs to an exteranal DAC. 2. I formatted a 1T HDD in exFAT, which is of much bigger capacity than my 64G USB flash drive, and copied all my favorite albums including SACD-ISOs to it. I then connected the HDD and DAC to my Samsung phone through a OTG USB hub. In this way, I can play everything I want and all music files on HDD are sorted according to their track numbers.

I don't know why. Maybe someone here can have a better answer. I just accepted the permissions during installation without going through the details because nearly all apps ask for some permissions during installation. I went back to Google Play Store, and click "View details" of Permissions required by HibyMusic. I couldn't find it required permission to access web browsing history. To quote the permissions it required: [color=#616161][font=Roboto]Version 2.3.4 can access:[/font][/color] [color=#333333][font=Roboto][color=#212121]Device & app history[/color] [list] [*]retrieve running apps [/list] [/font][/color] [color=#333333][font=Roboto][color=#212121]Phone[/color] [list] [*]read phone status and identity [/list] [/font][/color] [color=#333333][font=Roboto][color=#212121]Photos/Media/Files[/color] [list] [*]access USB storage filesystem [*]read the contents of your USB storage [*]modify or delete the contents of your USB storage [/list] [/font][/color] [color=#333333][font=Roboto][color=#212121]Storage[/color] [list] [*]read the contents of your USB storage [*]modify or delete the contents of your USB storage [/list] [/font][/color] [color=#333333][font=Roboto][color=#212121]Wi-Fi connection information[/color] [list] [*]view Wi-Fi connections [/list] [/font][/color] [color=#333333][font=Roboto][color=#212121]Device ID & call information[/color] [list] [*]read phone status and identity [/list] [/font][/color] [color=#212121]Other[/color] [list] [*]view network connections [*]pair with Bluetooth devices [*]access Bluetooth settings [*]send sticky broadcast [*]change system display settings [*]allow Wi-Fi Multicast reception [*]full network access [*]change your audio settings [*]draw over other apps [*]prevent device from sleeping [*]modify system settings [/list] After using this app for 2 days, I didn't notice any "catch". There is no adv poping up, and no in-app purchase. My phone works normally. This app was first released in 11-11-2014. I can't find any adverse comment from other users on the web regarding security of this app. Even if I find out something wrong later, I'll just remove it. I just tell you my experience so far with this app. It's always your decision if you want to try it. Cheers .

​Would like to share my recent experience with somebody who has the same pursued interests - I managed to rip my SACD collection by following ted_b's gigantic thread, but I have been limited to playing SACD ISOs with foobar2000 and jriver installed on my PC. My inital thought is to buy a UDP that can read SACD-R as an alternative PC-free option, but it's difficult nowadays to get one. I don't want to try those jailbreak firmwares from China. Also, even if I can get one, these UDPs (usually low to mid ends) are limited to HDMI digital or analogue outputs for DSD streams. My stereo DAC, as well as most others, won't accept HDMI and I doubt the analogue music quality decoded by the mediocre DAC of these UDPs. As said, I have been stuck until I tried 'HibyMusic Player' recently. This is a FREE app available both for Android and iPhone: HiBy Music Installing this app on my Samsung C7 and connecting it to my Northstar Supremo USB DAC with a OTG cable, I have been enjoying native DSD music for the past 2 days. My other system components are a pair of Jeff Rowland preamp/ poweramp and a pair of Spendor bookshelf speakers. To my most satisfaction, I hear only very minimal difference in music quality between this app from phone and foobar2000/jriver from PC. If there is any difference, I think it's difference in flair rather than quality. I also managed to buy a cheap ($6.50) USB OTG combo with 2 USB-ports and 2 SD slots. I copied my music files to a USB flash drive (exFAT for my C7). I connected my DAC to one port and the flash drive to the other. Now, I don't need to turn on my PC every time just for playing music files. To list some of the features stated on the official website of 'HibyMusic Player': - a free lossless HiFi audio player which is designed for audiophile and music fans. - play DSD files from your net driver (like Dropbox/DLNA/LAN) directly with native DSD support. - all lossless audio format decoding, including DSF, DFF, ISO (SACD ISOs of DST streams work ok too), WAV, FLAC, AIFF, M4A, AAC, MP3, OGG. - CUE sheets are supported. - High precision decoding with 32 bits output, 64 bits float point and 128 bits internal calculating. Just for the best quality of audio. - External USB DAC is supported with DXD/DoP output. You will get Native DSD or 384KHZ 32 bits audio stream easily. - Gapless playing is supported. - 10 bands graphic EQ are supported. - Separate plugins for sound field. I know there may be other apps with all above features, but this one is FREE. I have not tested everything, and I am not sure if it works for MCH. It seems to be under continuous development. There may be areas for improvements, features to be added and bugs/compatibities to be fixed. However, for now, I am well satisfied.

As far as I know there are 2 from Arcam: 1) CDS27 (tested OK by me with latest firmware) 2) UDP411 (heard from a friend that owned a UDP411)

Just to add: Asset UPnP R5 for QNAP just released. By the way, I have been using both Asset UPnP (trial version only) and minimserver for my QNAP TS-469L, and so far I am very happy with both.

Me too! And that makes me quite lonely!

Hi zonka, don't forget your ears are the most important pair of devices in deciding what will suit you best. All the figures are for your useful reference only and all test results still need final approval of your ears ... And what's good for other person's ears may not sound unacceptable to yours. By the way, you may find following article interesting: Archimago's Musings: ANALYSIS: A Comparison of DSD Encoders & Decoders (KORG AudioGate, JRiver MC, Weiss Saracon)

Thanks for your input. I also know 6db is the usual value when converting DSD to PCM. However, same significant reduction in volume occured when I tried to convert DFF to DSF (for better tagging) using Jriver MC ..... maybe Jriver converts DFF to PCM before finally to DSF ????? That's why I am using Audiogate until I can I find better way for the conversion.

Hi zonka, I got similar experience when trying to convert DFF or DSF track. Volume of converted track was much reduced or normalized. I am not an expert to answer your questions precisely, but I would like to share my experience with you: 1) I had tried to convert DFF file to some other lossless formats (e.g. FLAC) using Jriver MC, Foobar2000, and dbpoweramp. All resulted in different degrees of volume reduction. 2) Finally I tried Audiogate 2.3.3 build 5528 and found the volume level of the converted file is very close (by hearing, though) to that of the original file. FYI, Audiogate 2.3.3 is a freeware for anybody with a Twitter account and it is still available at the official website: Korg (click the 'software' button at bottom of above web page to expand the download list) By the way, what conversion software are you using? Please advise so that some experts here may better answer your questions. In the meanwhile, see if you want to try out Audiogate2.3.3. Cheers.

Glad to know Maxim Anisiutkin is also member of this forum. His plugins, together with others, make my life so much happier

I think it's a foobar2000 plugin (foo_input_sacd.dll) that does the job, although the main purpose of this plugin is to make foobar2000 capable of playing SACD ISO. To clarify what I said in post#745: Foobar2000 can play the loaded SACD ISO correctly, but if I tried to load cue sheet (instead of the ISO file) created by iso2dsd, only the first track can be played.