To top it off, with its limited ability to handle other file formats and no playlist or media library support, it's simply not for me. On to the sound quality, I bet its the resampler but the sound of HQPlayer seems to be more sharp and congested compared to a more opened soundstage and musical sounding of my foobar2000 setup. Both uLilith and foobar2000 ASIO output works fine with my Xonar DX ASIO driver. The ASIO output of it crashes on starting playback for me. Windows mixer is set to 24bit, 48KHz and 48KHz is also set in Xonar Control Panelįisrt HQPlayer starts up very slow compared to foobar2000 with my media library of over 4000 songs.

I tested this player in its default configuration which is everything resampled to 48KHz with sinc resampler and TPDF dithering and I'm going to compare this with foobar2000 with SoX resampler to 48KHz in VHQ, Passband 95%, Aliasing not allowed and Linear Phase Respond with WASAPI output (to be honest every output of this player sounds the same to me on Windows 7). Well, just tried HQPlayer, it created two shortcuts on my W7 64bit computer one for WASAPI output the other for ASIO output.

Hqplayer desktop