The harmonics of the piano are more audible (more reverb too), making the whole thing feel much more real and we become more involved in the playback. Mammal Hands sounds more calm and rhythmic. There is a much more airy stereo image and more refinement and fluidity audible in the soundstage. The step from WMP to Foobar is a big one. FoobarĪnd fortunately… Foobar does deliver! We used the ASIO plugin as well as the RAM buffer plugin to give the playback a bit of a boost.

Actually, we are inclined to shut this media player down so we can move quickly to the other software. It sounds rough, edgy and flat.The music seems boxed and undone of liveliness. Windows Media Player frankly doesn’t make us very happy.

Front speakers are set to full-range in the driver. We start with Windows Media Player in standard settings. The other two did not know so it is a blind test. One (Jaap) switched the applications and thus knew what was playing. But that will not soon happen at home, since it is unlikely that you both run ROON Bridge and JRiver and Audirvana and Foobar.įor this test, we just close the software over and over again, but you will see we still have to fix some issues every now and then during the stream. That gives occasional issues because sometimes the driver is not available. We use the Sonnet ASIO drivers to connect the Pasithea to the software. But the Titan is not in use, as the ASR is battery-powered. The Isotek Aquarius delivers clean power to the Sonnet. This amplifier drives our TAD Evolution Two speakers.Ĭabling is – as you may be used to by now – a mix of YETI power cables with Driade Reference Flow speaker cable and Grimm TPM interlinks. This Shuttle mini-PC runs a single USB cable to our Sonnet Pasithea d/a converter which then goes to an ASR Emitter 1 amplifier. Therefore, we set up a simple Shuttle mini-PC running Windows 10 on which we will install the software. We want to change as little as possible in this test.

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