Quote from: donunus on June 25, 2013, 05:02:28 PMBoth use ASIO yet Jriver is consistently a little bassier and less forward in the upper mids. The difference is there whether I use wasapi, asio, or directsound as if theres a built in non defeatable eq in these players that give them their own flavor. I feel it may be somewhere in another stage of processing and not from the wasapi/asio/directsound stage. I don't know but I feel that these differences between media player's are bigger than the difference in your files.EDIT: About the media players, It could be placebo due to the different color schemes between them hahaha. Can anyone else compare them to see if I am alone with this one?I set F2K and JR MC up the same way (WASAPI, 24-bit/96KHz, etc. etc.). I MIGHT have had upsampling turned on in JR MC...or maybe both...or neither. I can't remember. That could definitely throw results off. Or maybe it doesn't make a difference with bit perfect? Either way, I thought I heard a difference similar to what you're describing. For me, given that I am no expert, the difference was small enough that it could have been placebo. I found myself gravitating towards JR MC in the end anyway, mostly due to the UI.
Both use ASIO yet Jriver is consistently a little bassier and less forward in the upper mids. The difference is there whether I use wasapi, asio, or directsound as if theres a built in non defeatable eq in these players that give them their own flavor. I feel it may be somewhere in another stage of processing and not from the wasapi/asio/directsound stage. I don't know but I feel that these differences between media player's are bigger than the difference in your files.EDIT: About the media players, It could be placebo due to the different color schemes between them hahaha. Can anyone else compare them to see if I am alone with this one?
