I’m not an audiophile and I don’t care about this, just love the music and the sound. I think my sound is very good now and I can’t imagine a signifiant improvement from the player perspective. But when I will have a better PC I will try HQPlayer. Just I don’t like to have multiple players. One for audio (AS) and one for video (VLC) is enough for me. Since I use Qobuz too and some radios AS seems to be the perfect solution for me (one player for all my needs).
If you were listening to music without a DAC until a month ago, all this has obviously little importance for you.
However, to run HQPlayer, you need a faster computer. An i5 CPU may do it, but I think that at least an i7 is necessary.
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Thanks for your answer.
I want to believe you, but I am sceptic. I can´t imagine that a tool like HQPlayer (I don´t know it yet) sounds much better than Roon plus my DAC plus HiRes files plus Sennheiser HD800. What are the reason that HQPlayer should be sound imperior?!
HQPlayer, actually its full name is HQPlayer Desktop, is an audiophile player that is a derivative of a professional mastering application that is used in the musical industry, and whose name is HQPlayer Pro. This mastering application costs some €3.000.
HQPlayer Desktop has the playback features of HQPlayer Pro.
Roon and Audirvana are not at all in the same league for sound quality.
HQPlayer is all about a great playback of local files. Its library management is poor. It’s a relatively expensive player, and it costs €240.
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Not really, I can hear the difference between AS and foobar, it’s a big difference. Or between my DAC and my Realtek. But I’m not too subtile in audio perception. Or don’t have the best equipement. Or my ears needs to be “educated”. For example in my childhood I had a very cheap cassette radio player. And was happy with it until adolescence.
One can be a music lover without being an audiophile.
I also consider myself as a music lover, first.
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What do you recommend: HQPlayer with or without our DAC to maximize the audiophile experience?
The DAC is absolutely necessary. HQPlyer does not replace it.
Whatever the player, if you output the sound to the built-in DAC of the computer, which is of a mediocre quality on all the computers, you’ll never get a great sound.
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Hi, i m totally agree with doudou. I m first a music lover. So, for me, two reasons to choose an audioplayer on a computer : quality sound and stability. For this and After trying a lot … Since Many Years… Neutron music player it s the best choice. Better than AS or Audirvana 3.5 or Roon or…After if you are searching for a most analog sounding player Hqplayer desktop. Neutron cost IS nothing and the quality sound IS Amazing ! But the gui IS very special 
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Worse than HQPlayer? I find that difficult to imagine. The HQPlayer UI is so bad, it seems like a command line interface would be more user-friendly.
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HQPlayer is derivate from a professional mastering application for sound production that was not intended to serve as a music player. Though it has many settings, its design is clear, and it’s easy to understand how it functions.
Neutron is a real labyrinth with countless settings and hidden features. And it’s ugly. But it sounds very good.
Yes, I have to agree about Neutron. I used to have it on my iPhone when I was still using a DLNA target as player, and its controls and interactions were akin to changing factory settings on a dishwasher…
Wait a sec 
Can Neutron play to DLNA renderers?
Or do you mean playing from a dlna music server as a source ?
I think I did both. Sources were local files and DLNA shares, and AFAIR the target was a DLNA device (Yamaha). Unless I’m completely mistaken and it was Airplay. Not 100% sure now, since I have neither the device nor Neutron anymore.
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Hi
Yes neutron Can play to dlna renderers
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Weird. It must be the case of the dishwasher user interface.
I have the iOS version and cannot find that option.
Thanks. Do you if it was the windows version or the iOS version too?
Sorry never mind guys. I found it.
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Henri uses the Android version.
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Neutron can do many things, the challenge is to find the settings.
We just discovered thousands of radios by chance a week ago.