How to get a warmer sound?

[boucher]

Hi,

Very impressed with the functionality of Moode, works perfectly for me and the Tidal intergration is great - but how can I achieve a warmer sound in Moode?

I have tried various pieces of software including, Roon and Audiolinux.   Moode sounds very similar to Audiolinux in my opinion (similar linux underpinnings I guess) - but it's much easier to use.

It doesn't sound quite so warm and analogue like as my present reference 'Euphony Audio' (Trial version) however - I think they do something to warm up the sound in their playback engine, but I don't know what it is.  Detail retrieval is about the same between Euphony and Moode.

It has been suggested to me that Audirvana imparts more of a warm sound as well, but I'm yet to try this.

Any tips?

Hi - I too just finished tweaking Moode for Tidal. The amount of detail is there, just too bright. I left the EQs off as I didn’t have much success with those - sounded terrible. I did, however, find much success in adjusting SoX Resampling to taste. I’m streaming Tidal 16/44.1 to a Schiit Modi Multibit and found that upsampling to 24/96 (staying within the DAC‘s filter range - no MQA) seems to thicken the tone a little, but setting the quality to “medium” gives it the right amount of analog warmth. Warmth and plenty of detail - so sweet.