15User Rating: 1 out of 5

Review title of David Audio is NOT transaparent

I have been a long time fan of the classic foobar2000 desktop application due to its unique combination of sonic transparency, wide configurability, and ease of use. However, foobar2000 mobile continues to have an issue with sonic transparency that has yet to be fixed. I have conducted various blind tests via Sennheiser HD 800 headphones using this player, the classic desktop version of foobar2000, and Groove Music player. For this formal test, I ensured all plug-ins were disabled, and ReplayGain was disabled. Consistently, both classic foobar2000 and Groove Music sound noticeably sharper, better sounding and indistinguishable from one another. However, foobar2000 mobile has a hazy, constrained sound (e.g. cymbals are blurred and suppressed, the antithesis of the HD 800 sound signature) over it compared to the other players, as if (my speculation) a low-quality filtering was being applied to the output. As such, I will not be using foobar2000 mobile until the author fixes this.