What is the pirates take on the different playback softwares available on windows? Without any close inspection I cannot say that foobar is any better than jriver or jplay or vlc. I use fidelizer, which I thought provided some hints at improvement but nothing to get crazy about. I hear others rave about this or that software. What do you guys say?

I'm back to Windows Media Player. The other stuff crashed now and then.

I had been using fidelizer because I was having some issues with Jriver and kernel streaming. I thought a priotitizing software might help. Sometimes I forget to run fidelizer after a restart amd I don't notice a difference.

Jplay is interesting. I know there is a bit of controversy surrounding it. I tried it and noticed a very slight difference. It is kind of expensive though for what it is. I found changing some settings in Jriver gets me to the point where I can't tell a difference between Jplay and without. I would do some more testing but I didn't want to commit to the extra money for Jplay just yet. I still think it may be doing something else like upsampling or EQ.

 

This forum is a breathe of fresh air compared to everything else on the net. Reading your measurements, finally, I'm getting why I prefer even my car audio to several different cans (some expensive, some not, but all praised on the other forums) .

I'm looking for office headphones, and I'm wondering how would you compare Sony MDR-1R to the likes of Focal Spirit Classic and NAD HP50. Unfortunately I'm in Europe and can't test them.
I'm gonna drive them trough the sound card directly and i'm looking for something balanced and not-Fatiguing (that's most important IMO).

Sony's cost less, yet NADs and Focals are more praised. Is there any other can I should like at?

Thanks in advance