Only you can decide if the JPlay Femto solution is good value though. I'm sure the new JPlay version will still sound excellent but the JPlay statements are just marketing speak and should be read as such. I believe that with digital playback timing is everything and electrical noise is a bad thing so I use standard computer/network components but galvanically isolate the DAC from the upstream computer network and then reclock the data with a high quality oscillator immediately before the DAC.Īs you know, I was a JPlay user and rated it very highly but switched to HQPlayer because of my liking of DSD. That PC streams the data to a 'silent' PC in the listening room that renders the data to the DAC. Today I use a conventional desktop PC to run the heavy-lifting (HQ Player to upsample to high-rate DSD/PCM) that is located away from the listening room. I could hear no difference between the two computers. Using the JPLAY app on iOS to send audio to other renderers in my system was flawless. There are certainly some issues to be worked out in the JPLAY control point app, but its still in closed beta.
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#Jplay vs hqplayer pro
The DAC was high quality (RAKK DAC3) with an Amanero interface, feeding a Transcendent SE-OTL and my Lowther horns, so plenty of resolution capability. This combination of HQPlayer Embedded & MinimServer on the sonicTransporter and JPLAY for iOS on my iPad Pro is fantastic.
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I had a 'silent' computer (passive cooling and SSD) and a similar spec desktop PC and I located both of them outside of the listening room, thus eliminating the acoustic noise issue, and used each to play back the same music using the same software. is undesirable in a listening room simply because of the acoustic noise, a few years ago I experimented in this area. Wolfgang, with a starting premise that a computer with fans, HDD, etc.