I completely agree.The moral of the story is: when you're down in the tiny details you miss the bigger picture. The fact is that no matter how bit-perfect and pristine your source is, the source is not the sound. The sound is fluctuations in air pressure coming out of the speakers, bouncing around the room and hitting your eardrums.
But I am interested in a potential difference (regardless of whether it is better or worse) in sound when some MPD configuration details are changed.
I would be interested if PhilHill would be prepared to carry out a test? If so...
Log in via SSH and edit mpd.conf:
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nano /etc/mpd.conf
Add the code (anywhere):
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resampler {
plugin "soxr"
quality "very high"
}
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systemctl stop mpd
systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl start mpd
Now for the tests which could change the sound. Modify mpd.conf again and remove the following lines one by one and listen after each change (don’t forget to restart MPD after each change). They are in the output section for the Allo Boss DAC:
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auto_resample "no"
auto_format "no"
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device "plughw:0,0"
If there are differences in the sound you can see what is happening to the MPD output with the command:
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cat /proc/asound/card?/pcm0p/sub0/hw_params
To reset mpd.conf back to the standard just go to the MPD menu in the Rune UI and follow the instructions.
janui