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wowcolors · 5th November 2009, 18:32

Well I am happy to admit that something must be screwy with the windows direct sound capture method and HDCD.exe decoder WAV output is the same as WMP WAV output plug-in output, my first comparison is invalid.

The original CD EAC ripped WAV vs the direct sound capture of software playback of the original CD where almost identical but the same comparison done with WMP HDCD playback and HDCD.exe decoded wav were not, it may be that direct sound capture gets messed up in 24-bit. Either way the WMP wav out plug-in wav file matches the HDCD.exe decoded WAV, so it appears HDCD.exe is correctly decoding HDCD content. Attached is the waveforms and a link to the full-size screen shot.

So hope this serves as future reference to others doing comparisons or investigations into HDCD.exe decoding and clears up some of the other questions in the post above.

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wowcolors Registered User Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 6	Well I am happy to admit that something must be screwy with the windows direct sound capture method and HDCD.exe decoder WAV output is the same as WMP WAV output plug-in output, my first comparison is invalid. The original CD EAC ripped WAV vs the direct sound capture of software playback of the original CD where almost identical but the same comparison done with WMP HDCD playback and HDCD.exe decoded wav were not, it may be that direct sound capture gets messed up in 24-bit. Either way the WMP wav out plug-in wav file matches the HDCD.exe decoded WAV, so it appears HDCD.exe is correctly decoding HDCD content. Attached is the waveforms and a link to the full-size screen shot. So hope this serves as future reference to others doing comparisons or investigations into HDCD.exe decoding and clears up some of the other questions in the post above. Attached Images Last edited by wowcolors; 26th November 2009 at 02:48.