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With the popularity of streaming media and high-sampling digital audio files, digital audio transmission, storage, management and playback increasingly rely on PC platforms. Many software products have emerged, such as Roon, TIDAL, Qobuz and HQPlayer, etc., which are all inseparable from the PC platform. Among them, HQPlayer is currently the most complete desktop upscaling software, which can greatly improve or even change the listening experience, and is increasingly recognized by music enthusiasts.
HQPlayer is an extremely high-quality audio file converter, recorder and player for Windows, Mac and Linux platforms, developed by Jussi Laako (Signalyst) from Finland. It can meet users’ various high-quality audio playback needs and provide users with the best sound quality experience. It has multiple high-quality resamplers, dither/noise shaping algorithms and Delta-Sigma modulators, supports driver modes such as ASIO, WASAPI and network audio, supports 64/80-bit floating point processing, convolution algorithm, convolution engine, high frequency expansion, stereo playback, includes stereo, surround sound and other different types of audio output methods, etc.
HQPlayer is known as the best-sounding, most complex, and difficult-to-use audio player in the universe. It can achieve excellent sound quality through extremely high-precision upsampling. However, its settings are very complex and cumbersome. To obtain the best audio playback effect, you can only try one by one to find the best combination to obtain the best sound quality.
// Key Features //
- Automatic gapless output track splicing for album processing
- Switchable realtime output monitoring
- Software upsampling / downsampling with selectable algorithm up to 32-bit 1.536 MHz or down to 16-bit 32 kHz PCM (45 options, most “apodizing”)
- Delta-Sigma modulators for upsampling PCM/DSD content up to 49.152 MHz 1-bit SDM (12 modulators, 3 SDM rate converters, 49 oversampling options)
- Direct DSD up / down rate conversions (3 options)
- Selectable dithering / noise shaping algorithm (9 options)
- 128 DSP pipelines for routing and mixing with various algorithms
- Selectable convolution algorithm (FIR) for equalization, such as digital room correction (2 options), for PCM/DSD content
- Optional high-frequency expansion for the convolution engine
- Parametric equalizers for PCM/DSD content
- RIAA de-emphasis equalization for PCM/DSD content
- Software-based digital volume control for PCM and SDM (DSD)
- Source content analysis to detect need for apodizing oversampling filter
- Processing of DSF/DSDIFF files to any supported output (PCM conversion and DSD rate conversion)
- Selectable algorithm and noise filters for DSF/DSDIFF to PCM conversion (13 / 12 options)
- Native/direct recording and playback of DSF/DSDIFF files (ASIO DSD, DoP v1.1 with both 0x05/0xFA and 0x06/0xF9 markers)
- Channel balance configuration for multichannel playback and processing (delay and level), for PCM and SDM (DSD)
- Matrix processing for routing, filtering and mixing channels with gain, for PCM and SDM (DSD) content
- Bypasses operating system software mixer and sample rate conversion
- Support for professional ASIO drivers
- Network endpoint support with Signalyst Asynchronous Network Audio Adapters
- Support for ID3v2 tags on AIFF, DSF, DSDIFF and WAV files (versions 2.2, 2.3 and 2.4)
- “Dual wire” channel bonding support to reach 2x rates, PCM and DoP (DSD)
- 64/80/128-bit and arbitrary precision floating point processing
- Full support for multi-core processors
- Lightweight desktop-GUI to lower graphics noise
- DSP offload to GPU using NVIDIA CUDA
- Headphone cross-feed processing
- Level adaptive loudness control
- High dynamic range and distortion masking MP3 encoding modes
// Supported File Formats //
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// Fan Made Demo Video //
// System Requirements //
- Windows 10+
- Mac 10.11+ (64-bit)
// Edition Statement //
AppNee provides the HQPlayer Desktop/Pro Edition multilingual full installers and unlocked files for Windows 64-bit, and pre-activated full installers for Mac.
*** The Desktop Edition contains server and client.
// Installation Notes //
for v5.2.0+ on Windows:
- Download and install HQPlayer
- Copy the unlocked file to installation folder and overwrite
- Done
for v4.21 on Windows:
- Download and install HQPlayer
- Add the following lines to your hosts file:
- www.signalyst.com
- www.signalyst.eu
- Copy the unlocked file to installation folder and overwrite
- Done
// Download URLs //
| License | Version | Download | Size |
| for Windows | |||
| Desktop Edition | v5.4.2 |  |
161 MB |
| Pro Edition | v4.21 | |
86.7 MB |
| for Mac | |||
| Pro Edition | v4.3.0 |  |
124 MB |
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