fhuerta Posted March 6, 2017 Share Posted March 6, 2017 Hi all. I bought a secondhand LG V10 and a 200GB SDCard as my primary music player. The ESS DAC and amp are simply stunning. I ended up selling my Fiio X3 and my Fiio portable DACS. Unfortunately, the music player leaves lots to be desired. It can't handle my collection; it's too big. So I remembered I bought Poweramp and installed it. I hadn't used it for a while, and I'm overwhelmed by the sheer amount of options. I installed the Alpha version,and now see there's an expereimental Hi Res output option, but it uses the Snapdragon DAC. Now, there are two things I noticed. 1) I can still enable or disable the Hi Fi DAC using the menu toggle switch, and I get the pause, as if the DAC was engaging. And I believe it is. 2) The Hi Res output plugin upsamples everything to a set frequency. I configured 192KHz, but I'd rather not upsample anything, and play my collection at the original frequency. What can I do to get the most pure (not upsampled) playing experience, while using the SABRE DAC on my phone? Thanks a lot! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrewilley Posted March 6, 2017 Share Posted March 6, 2017 At the moment (clues are in the words "alpha test" and "experimental" ) you can't set the output frequency to match the source file content, only to a given set frequency. Hopefully that will be something that can be added though, as it's a very common (and sensible) request. Andre Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fhuerta Posted March 7, 2017 Author Share Posted March 7, 2017 Thanks! So, I guess my two options right now would be - using the standard Java output, or using the experimental hi-res output, and manually enabling the HiFi DAC, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrewilley Posted March 7, 2017 Share Posted March 7, 2017 Try and see what works best for you. And if something doesn't, please can you note the details in the High-Res Requests thread? Thanks. Andre Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fhuerta Posted March 7, 2017 Author Share Posted March 7, 2017 Everything works fine! I was just wonderig if there was a preferred set-up. I'm very impressed. I listened to music for about an hour, and lost 2% of battery, using the SoX resampler, and the highest quality dither, using the Hi-Res module, and the HiFi DAC on my phone. Really amazing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrewilley Posted March 7, 2017 Share Posted March 7, 2017 The problem is that there are as many 'perfect' settings as there are phones, DACs, headphones... and indeed ears. Andre Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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