Onkyo HF Player - Hi-Res Music App Reviews

incredibly, this app is like a guardian that protects me from bad sound, with an upsampling function of 44.1 kHz to 48 kHz

Crash on .dsf DSD-File import

This one of the best Hi-Res audio player so far!! Pro - Amazing audio quality - great equalizer - supports upto 385khz/24-Bit output (but limited upto 48khz/96khz over the headphone jack) Contra - limited 48khz/96khz output over the headphone jack - no gain control (for example: -15db/+15db) - no option to select a specific output setting like 192khz/24-Bit or 384khz/24-Bit - no option to add multiple albums in playlist - no 32-Bit output jet I will give this app 5 Stars when the missing functions/options/features/supports will be added in the next updates! Anyways the audio player rocks!!

Super !!!

I like this. Bought the hd plugin and am now playing 24 bit audio out to an external DAC on my phone.

This is the best sounding eq I have used on a phone. There is enough ability to tailor the frequency response to any headphones without getting too complicated and technical. The music player section is fully featured and the interface looks great. Best of all, it all integrates and functions flawlessly!

Improves sound quality on my iPhone 4s and has built in EQ to personalize songs.

I have used all the popular eq apps. This beats them all hands down

Over all a great app. The EQ sounds very good and gives you many options for fine tuning your listening experience. I was disappointed with the HD play option as I was hoping I could copy my mp3s over the same way you copy HD files, but it wont read the mp3s. The only way to read the mp3s is though syncing with iTunes music. That being said, FLAC files sound great playing through this app.

Exact copy of the music app makes it super easy, but I can still get audiophile sound out of cheap bang & olufsen speakers I got for Christmas last year!

Love that this plays both iTunes MP3 library, and FLAC files as well. Have had most of the Flac players available (including paid ones), and this beats them all hands down!

I was searching for a lossless player to pair in my car, and my search ends here awesome EQ, Amazing sound, great UI, and it supports all formats; wav, flac, dsf, dsd and even 320kbps Mp3s. Awsome!

This is an excellent music player app. It has many features that the built-in Music app from Apple doesn’t have, has a nice interface, and works well without crashing. I have tried virtually all the paid and unpaid music apps currently available for iOS, and this one is definitely the best at this time (however, see my note below about this). Note that although it is marketed as an Onkyo-specific app and is meant to be a companion app to their headphones, it also works no problem with all other brands of headphones and stereos, or when used with the device’s built-in speaker. Compared to Apple’s built-in Music app, this one has several key advantages: - A customizable equalizer. By default it has 11 bands of adjustment, but more can be added. The adjustment frequencies are fully customizable as well, so you’re not just stuck with the default bands of, for example, 32, 64, 125, etc. All bands can be adjusted by +- 12 dB. The pre-amp level can also be adjusted by moving the whole EQ graph up or down. Custom EQs can be saved. - It shows song lyrics, like the built-in app. This is something that many other 3rd-party music players don’t do. - It can be controlled from the lock screen - It supports crossfade (it is one of the few music player apps to be able to do this) - It does not have Cover Flow, which I think is GREAT because I find Cover Flow to just be a nuisance. In the past I would always lock the screen rotation on my device just to make sure Cover Flow wouldn’t engage, but now I don’t have to do that. Instead of Cover Flow it has a Landscape mode, which simply shows the equalizer and a graphic visualizer in landscape mode. But, landscape mode can be disabled, which is nice. - Extra info about songs can be viewed, such as file size, genre, year, etc, although this often doesn’t work properly. - All the standard controls that the built-in Music app has (such as pause/play, fast-forward/rewind, volume control, track position control, shuffle, repeat, etc) are present in this app and are well laid-out. - This app is quick, responsive, and stable (it doesn’t crash), which is definitely not true of some other 3rd-party music players. - It automatically syncs with the music on your device, so each time you buy a new song from the iTunes Music Store or otherwise add/modify a song in your library, that change is updated right away in this app. Note that some other 3rd-party apps take some time to react to changes like this. There are some things about this app that I don’t like: - If you have playlists organized into folder in iTunes, this app ignores the folders and instead groups all playlists into a single list. This is especially a problem if you have multiple playlists of the same name in different folders and/or if you have several hundred playlists, like me. From what I’ve seen, this is the case with all 3rd-party music player apps; I’m pretty sure only the built-in Music app will recognize folders. - Although the interface is nice, and it’s better than the Music app interface in iOS 7 and 8, I do prefer the interface from the Music app in iOS 6 as well as the interface in a few other 3rd-party music apps. - It lacks a few features from other 3rd-party music apps The only reason I didn’t give this app 5 stars is because there is one out there that is better than it in terms of features: Swhipy. That app has quite a few more settings and features and has a better interface. For example, it has automatic gain control, to automatically lower the preamp level if your EQ is clipping the music. It also has powerful tools for creating and modifying playlists and can handle music from sources other than iTunes and the iTunes Music Store. Unfortunately Swhipy currently doesn’t work in iOS 8 and is slow and unstable in other versions of iOS. So, although not as feature-filled as Swhipy, I have found that this Onkyo HF Player app is currently the best music player app available for iOS.

I purchased the HD Player Pack. The sound is very good. HOWEVER, Customer Support, User Guide (lack of one) and terrible UI make this player very difficult to use. Such things that should be simple such as creating and adding to Playlists is near impossible to figure out. If youve FLAC files which iTunes doesnt support, these must be added manually and the software doesnt allow your music files to stay organized within files on the player itself. Its just silly, and ultimately, a frustrating experience.

I really like this app, but it keeps crashing when I try to see all 30+ albums form the same artist. It just cant handle that many albums, please fix this.

Its an amazing app. All I need is the optimization for 6+!!!

This app is almost perfect. Ill give it 5 if the dev change image size tag up to 10 mb. I have a png album 4.1 mb and jpg around 5.6 mb it wont load.

It is indeed OK. It has many pluses for those who appreciate great sound. What takes it down is the fact that it is not very user friendly. It takes forever to make a nice playlist - the process is very awkward, to say the list. Search is not very useful at all. App can skip a lot of tracks without any logical explanation - it finds some tracks and ignores others even though they have the same "composer" etc etc It just makes no sense. If you guys can fix this "playlist"/"search" awkwardness, this app will shine. Right now it is rather very uncomfortable to use.

Best music player app I have found. Gives the user the ability to control the EQ instead of being stuck with the presets from AKB ("Apple Knows Best". Love Apple products but would a little more user control kill you?). You will have no problem with playlists if you use iTunes to create/modify playlists. Very stable and looks good too. Thanks Onkyo!

Its a pain creating a playlist and you cannot restore songs in your iCloud backup. You have to delete the iCloud backup of flac files and add the songs through file sharing from scratch then recreate your playlist. What a waste!