Onkyo HF Player - Hi-Res Music Reviews

Great

Jo3Bee

I don't understand the ire directed at this app in other reviews based on what seem to me to be quite minor technical flaws. Bugs happen: Write to the devs and help them diagnose and improve the issue. Here's what others need to know: This app can use your existing iTunes library, picks up playlists (etc) flawlessly, and you don't have to do anything extra to manage your music (unless you want to). And your music will sound better right away. You can also tune the sound (with preset or custom equalizer settings) to suit your preferences and your particular headphones. And for all this, Onkyo charges you the sum of "0" - for the basic version anyway. Amazing.

Great Player, Okay Interface

Nite_Mann

HF Player and its features like EQ, Upsampling, and ability to play FLAC really makes it amazing. However, the UI and interface could use some work. For example, when queueing a song to listen to next, the queued song will skip over if you are on shuffle.

Could be great - crashes on end of song with lock screen active

cjet55

Has some great features. Air drop sync of .flac files is awesome! Why can't I do that with Apples Music app? When it's playing, it sounds great! But Onkyo HF Player has some bugs with current iOS. Worst is the hanging between songs. It just freezes up and clicks. Have to force quit the app. This limits it to long programs only, and force quit after each play. The UI also was designed for the classic 4" phones so does not look great on today's pluses. That's a minor quibble compared to the hanging crashes. Please update this app and fix the crashes. I want to love it! **** I was excited to get an update a couple weeks ago! Unfortunately, I'm still getting a hard crash if it's running a playlist with the lock screen active. It comes to end of a Flac song and does a "looping click" until I force quit the app. It doesn't seem to do this when the phone is unlocked and the app is in the foreground. Keep trying! Thanks.

Good and ugly

PabloPhuckingEscobar

Great music playback with a really ugly interface.

Incredible

Drew_2006

I've been using this app for several weeks now almost daily and love it. Not the sleekest interface and crashes every once in a blue moon (not catastrophically, just close and reopen the app), but those factors cannot detract from a five star rating. Because the sound this app puts out is.....incredible. I paid the $10 to get the FLAC capability and don't regret a penny of it. Using an iPhone 7 with this app straight to Shure SE215k earbuds, or out to an Oppo DAC and then to HiFiMan he-400i headphones, the sound that this app is capable of putting out is absolutely reference-quality. For the first time, I can honestly say I can use my PHONE to do some critical listening. The manual equalizer is great, the pre-installed equalizers are great. Basically, I love this app. Great job, Onkyo! One suggestion for developers: find a way to list all music formats (FLAC and MP3) together instead of having to choose a Hi-Fi option to get to my FLAC files.

Almost perfect..

Fruitninja love

An amazing app; I would like it more if it could boot up faster. Is the boot up animation really necessary?

This is what Apple should have done with their Music app

Miketikasingh

The developers have done an amazing job. I was skeptical about the value of upsampling the sound; I figured if it's already downgraded to 256 kb/second, the damage has already been done. I am very happy to be mostly wrong in this case. I'm sure I'm going to be buying the HD upgrade soon, so that I can see how well this handles actual HD files, since it does a great job on lower bitrate files, even without the use of the equalizer. I was just looking for a replacement for the Denon Audio app, which appears to be a bit of an off for now, I'm glad I found this as a replacement. Apple's own aggravating music app is no match for this. The only thing that I would change about this app would be to turn up the sensitivity of the touch screen when adjusting the equalizer. It only seems to pick up that you're pressing on one of the handles when you start moving it. So sometimes you end up tapping more than once and end up creating additional handles that you don't need. This, however is something I can live with, since it's just a question of realizing what the app is doing and remembering it for the next time. A fantastic thing that I discovered was that the equalizer scale can be expanded or reduced by pinching outward or inward as necessary giving you more or less resolution as you need. A nice touch. Thumbs up to the Onkyo Corporation for this app!

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