The sister site is handing out a HQPlayer 5 Desktop v5.0.2.

I stumbled on this and then questions appeared:

Do we need it and others like it for the music production?
Do we need a special gear for it, for example, I have a home cinema and use it as reference system checkihg out my tracks (besides monitors and ear phones)... I thought it's enough, do I need more gear?

PS. the things over HI RES reminded me HI End hype decades before

 

Audiophile's player of choice is for ages: www.foobar2000.org

 

High Res audio just means more than 16bit and more than 44.1kHz SR, most often this is 24/96. Any halfway modern audio interface aswell as players should be capable of it.

 

You mean Hardware Flac Player, I'm interested too https://www.sony.ca/en/audio-components/gallery

I personally have a player like this Auna AV2-CD509, you know was cheaper, has a radio, USB MP3 player and CD player.
https://www.ebay.de/itm/39441985247...3bHWb4QaLL9vSrlzTmpkz9U+lByO|tkp:BFBMtsOYjp1i

 

Well, I see nobody follows the issue I posted.
Once more in details:
we export multitrack to WAV once a project finished, then send it wherever we want.
People don't play our file on DAW, they use Windows Media, Winamp, Aimp, MPCHC, foobar, A-player...
but some use Jriver player ($70 - 90) or even Roon player ($15 a month or $830 for lifetime)

So, do we need to check out how our file sounds at least on listed above to know that it sounds good on any player?
People get a decision to accept/not to accept (labels), to buy/not to buy (final customers) according to what they hear on their PLAYERS!
Next, maybe the market follows (at least partly) a new trend: HI RES?

 

No, you do not need to do this.

 

What?

I assume these

are players which run on a computer which needs an audio interface???