First, I don't mean to be mean, and I totally love my SoundID.
It's just that I found how to perfect it: I converted an album in foobar2k to wav using my HD800 profile, and after it had to cpu a lot during the conversion, playing this newly mastered file bypassing all SoundID from then on, finally let me hear perfection. Which sounds kind of disappointingly simple, since it's just the original master sounding correct in the first place, without all kinds of cpu-based noise, lag, and ringing. But only disappointing because its so simple, not having to notice anything unusual at all, during critical listening.
Get over it, nit-picker, and start just using SoundID for it's re-mastering of your originals, sorry about your collection taking up 2x as much space, with 1 doctored copy.
So now, my master read award goes to SoundID ‘doctored’ originals, read off of a blu-ray disc, for 0-noise added, although my SD card reader is still just quietly ahead of the rest of the drive types. But optically read data is galvanically isolated, and can be extroverted all it wants, you can't beat it for A/V. I just have to live with a dedicated CD reading transport being able to beat a 24/192 reading transport, theoretically. But yes, a 25gb BD-RE beats even my SD card reader, that I correctly chose as winning the storage wars, even though it's only slightly behind the SATA SSD's, although they still share a noise signature with even the awfully mechanical drives.
Outside of re-mastering files with SoundID, listening to streaming still can't be beat without SoundID, for my headphones. The plug-in only is way more transparent than the systemwide driver, if you want to hear what Sonarworks still deserves more $ for working on, with that. The law of simple is not their job to break, they add service and support on top of being able to re-master files for proper playback, with their profile and translator.
Oh, and throw windows audio out the door. Everything is getting played by the one and only instrument Windows plays: the MS Windows keyboard. Forget soundstage and Isolation, a single instrument only can still vary within itself.
I have a used 2021 iMac coming, it should keep up with my re-mastered files on Linux, as well as having full SoundID support. The problem is, I'm stuck with having to buy an iMac, for my SoundID support, while Linux would work on my current old backup pc, if Sonarworks could hire the right Linux coder to support it. Hopefully, lots more Grammy winners will support it, even though they really need the whole playback market, somehow.
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