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Does anyone know a freebie Flac converter? Why can I never find the free ones? Foobar alows you to convert from .flac to .wav. Its free. http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Foobar2000:Converter you will probably need to download a plugin and put it in the correct folder. I'm sure you will...

However, MQn Player seems to have started as an exploration of what is possible on the Windows platform (given it's generally available and easier to use for most people). Certainly most of the early comparatives were with JPlay and other Windows player software. My own experiments with Linux yield...

It's possible that adapting something like MQn to run natively on a Wandboard or similar would be doable (there's a group adapting it to run LMS, I think). But unless there will be a dedicated OS that does no other thing than playback audio, one will never achieve the optimum. A dedicated OS will p...

What is clear is that noise is produced when transferring through the cpu and this noise affects the SQ. So far I have been trying to transfer the maximum amount in the shortest time, maybe I should look at the opposite and see if the noise is less or of a different quality. SBGK - I was thinking t...

The 2.60 cp version is very enjoyable. There's no shortage of bass for sure and it doesn't get in the way of the rest the music. Vocals are more "there" and expressive. Detail is good and not at all in your face. I'd say this is the best 2.60 version and better than the 2.59s too. I have ...

DaveF If the differences in MQN are indeed real and not placebo and so on, then I think we're looking in the wrong place. But I'm running out of places to look. Sorry to hear of your disc breaking. I have tested just about every version SBGK produced from the start, and there is no doubt that differ...

Great discussion. Must say at such a better and well-informed level than other forums some of us have inhabited in a past life. Thanks to all concerned. One piece of the adverse SQ [Windows] jigsaw not so far mentioned and a bit of a hobby horse for me using Windows as the OS, is the USB Audio Class...

The outstanding questions are can these techniques be used in other players ? Given the popularity of KS would a KS MQn sound better ? What would a linux MQn sound like ? It looks like with Win 8.1 that WASAPI is very much at the heart of the audio engine, so MQn is in a good place to benefit from ...