Reclock is sounding fantastic

[Doman]

Jus' wanted to say Reclock is sounding fantastic

This is Wave Out too

I say this because i was trying Foobar2000 with ASIO. But i came back to this on Wave Out, and sounds full clear note to note goodness.

[leeperry]

yes! I'm banned on the foobar forum(I seem to like to break their TOS, like saying that KS sounds better than DS on XP w/o hard proofs..hah), but you should ask them nicely whether it's "placebo", and why does Reclock sound so much better/tighter/cleaner/clearer and more bassy than their "elite" worthless audio player.

it sure as hell doesn't sound like placebo to me, and to many ppl on head-fi

all the guys using XXHighEnd also said that foobar sounded like ****(which it does btw).

[Doman]

Originally Posted by leeperry

yes! I'm banned on the foobar forum(I seem to like to break their TOS, like saying that KS sounds better than DS on XP w/o hard proofs..hah), but you should ask them nicely whether it's "placebo", and why does Reclock sound so much better/tighter/cleaner/clearer and more bassy than their "elite" worthless audio player.

it sure as hell doesn't sound like placebo to me, and to many ppl on head-fi

all the guys using XXHighEnd also said that foobar sounded like ****(which it does btw).

Ha Ha your funny.
Btw I am not gonna go on the forum and ask that. Its like playing with matches in a haybarn. Hell, tbo I may just bask in the knowledge that im listening to better audio that the Foobar lot.

[leeperry]

well go KS/WASAPI if any possible...and make sure to use bit-perfect drivers(not C-Media/Asus/Realtek)

Computer Audio Asylum - RE: XXHighEnd Player Sounds!!!!! better than my foobar

The XX is the best player I've used in my system in terms of sound. Larger soundstage, everything fleshed out better/of a whole, low bass/bass/drums more impact better defined, everything highs on down more articulate....

there's zillions of posts like this on the internet, and I would strongly agree w/ the exact same differences between Reclock and foobar.

but well, these hydrogenic(that's gotta hurt btw ) ppl think that KMixer's distortion on XP is inaudible(even mentioning it ends up in a cold blooded ban <giggles>)...some guy on a french forum measured KMixer's distortion w/ a loopback on his Lynx soundcard, it's not that hard to give hard proofs(if you get the chance, before getting banned )

I'd love to compare XXHighend to Reclock, but the current version is broken and cannot work w/ KS on XP...better luck next time, I'll try the next version someday.

[leeperry]

just because I like to beat dead horses, the diff between foobar and Reclock(both in 100% bit-perfect) has been perfectly explained here(I fully agree w/ everything he says, and I was skeptic to death in the first place!!): http://www.head-fi.org/forums/f46/tu...0/#post5901597

The first thing i notice when i launch a album in KMPlayer is the smoothness of the music, its much more closer to a music being played by instruments !
The instruments now have a holographic sound of their own body, its so realist you can easily "touch" the instruments with your ears. The instruments have now a darker blackness between notes.
The voice is less forward, less detach of the instruments but now blend with them naturally.
The music in itself has more emotion and it is less prone to ear fatigue.
The bass is also fuller and with more impact, that really amaze me !

I didn't thought that this will make such a huge difference and i wasn't even thinking i will be able to even hear it !

his english is a bit broken, but you get the idea...less harsh/agressive sound, better stereo imaging and much better low end bass response.

why? mystery....most likely something's utterly foobar'ed in the internal audio pipeline of foobar...like buggy integer>float conversions, maybe their 64bit attenuator code is also goofy...I don't believe in magic, but comparing Reclock to foobar is indeed night and day

[Doman]

First thing, woh dude thanks for pointing me towards KMPlayer, sounds really good. I can WASAPI with the SW1000XG but next to the RME its not as good, which is Wave Out.

Anyways, agreed the foobar player is not much cop sounds muddled and lifeless.
ReClock injects that life into its music with better flow and more interesting sound. And as you have said before LeePerry, better bass.
The KMPlayer is the next step too, better sound with about a zillion options for me to test.

Thanks Leeperry you have been quite a insperation

[leeperry]

Originally Posted by Doman

Reclock is sounding fantastic

http://www.head-fi.org/forums/f46/as...6/#post6602970

ReClock uses Kernel Streaming/WASAPI interfaces. BTW, this pair MPC+R provides best sound i've ever heard from PC. So i prefer to use it for music and movies

[leeperry]

ok I've built up a troll bait on head-fi, and Reclock always comes first for SQ: http://www.head-fi.org/forum/thread/...5#post_6682421

To me and my system, after several days of testing, the best player is MPC with Reclock and MadFlac, i try Foobar, Ulilith, KMPlayer, StealthPlayer, XXHighEnd all of them claim to be BitPerfect all of them sound different all of them pass the HDCD flag intact

now...if SlyPlayer could do gapless

[Mark_A_W]

Originally Posted by leeperry

now...if SlyPlayer could do gapless

You haven't found a directshow player that will play audio tracks back gaplessly?

I need a player that will do that.


I'm using Foobar (with it's Convolver plugin, and Wasaps) as (other than WMP), it's the only thing I've found that plays seamlessly.


I'd rather not re-rip all my audio as complete disc flac with cuesheet....it's too late now, they are all wma lossless tracks done by WMP (which my wife can use).

[el Filou]

It's really difficult to find such a player as the gapless audio playback needs to be designed in the player from the start so the player probably would need to have its own splitter(s) that would open the next file and treat the audio as continuous. Not easy (impossible?) to do with file-based DirectShow players.