I ripped all my CD's to my Windows 10 PC using iTunes lossless format. Today I got a nice used pair of speakers and wanted to test them out with some music. I cued up some tunes in iTunes - and was less than impressed. I played the same file through Foobar, and it sounded very different. I then tried Windows media player, and again it sounded different. Hollow, muted, compressed, lack of frequency response, no dynamics, recessed mids & highs, distortion...each had a mixed bag of demerits.
Is there a way to get an unaltered digital signal from my PC over HDMI to my receiver? I made sure all "enhancements" were turned off in each app, and set my receiver (Pioneer Elite) to Pure Direct mode.
Is there a way to get an unaltered digital signal from my PC over HDMI to my receiver? I made sure all "enhancements" were turned off in each app, and set my receiver (Pioneer Elite) to Pure Direct mode.