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flac.rules:
Audio is not magic field, its a scientific field as "everything" else. There have been extensive research and tests on what humans can and cannot hear. A lot of the claims in audio circles have failed again and again in listening tests. <it might be your system, but more often than not it some crazy claim with no base in reality.

Frobozz:
This isn't the place to argue about whether various audiophile tweaks are audible or make a difference.  There are plenty of audiophile forums where you can have those kinds of often divisive discussions.

I'm happy to see JRiver implement various audiophile options even if they are things that I am not going to use.  Some may seem silly to me while others could prove useful to me.  As long as they follow a philosophy of do no harm then I don't see a problem with it.  If a feature is scratching an itch for one of the developers to try something, that's all good.

Keep in mind that useful features like ASIO, WASAPI, and true gapless playback are examples of what could be called audiophile features, and those features are very useful to me.  Exploring new audiophile features and improving on the existing ones is beneficial.  If those new features attract new audiophile users to JRiver, all the better.

666JackTheKnife666:
Most of my Audio is Audio books and the files are huge. is there anyway to increase the memory beyond 256meg ? would love to set it up for 2gb or more of ram.

Pjotr:
From the audio viewpoint there is no advantage. Data must be buffered in memory anyway --> Flac files, mp3 and other formats need to be decoded anyway before it can be send to the audio card.

The only advantage is for disk/network load. I also use my media player to play regular CD’s: Those silvery shiny disk you know :D It would be nice if a whole CD can be captured at once with re-reads when errors are detected and buffered to memory.

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Just tested it. Big advantage: Over WLAN no interruptions anymore due to the key exchange of WPA2 :)

Question: If you make the buffer this long, why not make it sizable depending of the amount of memory available, so a whole album can be read at once to memory?

Pjotr:
I don’t want to go in a lengthy audiop(h)ile discussion but as long as the PCM data is correctly delivered to the DA converter chip it doesn’t matter how it is delivered to the DA chip. And I don’t see why a conventional computer with decent media software like MC cannot do that. Reading the stored data from HD, an USB stick, over a network or from internal ram doesn’t matter at all then.

Provided the PCM data is delivered error free at the DA chip, what counts from a sonic viewpoint is de quality of the DA chip and  analogue circuitry thereafter and the clock circuitry driving the DA chip.

If you want top notch audio (as I do), hook up a high quality USB / FW DAC to your PC. But many semi pro PCI cards a very  good also.

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