lewinskih01
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| Multicore CPUs: Any risk to audio quality? I pretty much agree with Billbartuska. Although that much memory might be too much in my view. If going WS2012, consider the Optimizer. It made a huge difference in my system.For what it's worth, four months ago I wanted to build a new server and ... | |
| Computer for music only? Dtc,FWIW, I'll share my experience. My music server has plenty of headroom (Xeon quad core, 8GB RAM), runs Windows Server 2012 and JRiver, and feeds an Audiophilleo with PurePower. The PurePower works pretty much like the iFi iUSB Power, but desig... | |
| Computer for music only? Onhwy61,I think you are partly right. A process that doesn't run while playing music should generate electrical noise/jitter.However, there are many reports from users talking about sound improvements from minimizing the processes that run on a co... | |
| Computer for music only? Mwheelerk,I didn't take your question as an attack. A fair challenge, which is a very healthy thing to have in a place like this. Hopefully my post from 4/6 addressed to you didn't come through as defensive. Was not my intention, anyway. | |
| Computer for music only? Yeap, all power amps measuring the same sound the same, all bit-perfect software players sound the same, yadda-yadda. Ignorance is a bliss...for some. | |
| Upping my digital game Charles,Thanks for the kind words. I especially value them coming from you, as I find your posts particularly insightful and even-keeled.Cheers! | |
| Computer for music only? I reckon this can sound absurd to some, just like cables sounding different sounds absurd to some. At this point this is not an exchange of views anymore, so I'll leave it here. There are plenty of people at specialized fora stating this, and I ha... | |
| Computer for music only? Mwheelerk,Upfront I'll say I don't exactly remember where I saw this. I thought I saw it at computeraudiophile.com, maybe at Chris' guide to ripping CDs? But you frequent the site and don't remember it. Frankly I don't remember where I did.My take... | |
| Upping my digital game Zabato,Please clarify what is it you are looking for. The Neo 260 is a CD transport with optional DAC, while the Benchmark and Naim you list are DACs only.By "play digital discs", are you talking SACD, BluRay also, or just CD?Knowing these would a... | |
| Preamp for mc275le. Need advice, please Ghasley,Clearly DACs don't have expiration dates. But take a look at what kind of sound a $1k DAC bought you 10 and 5 years ago, and what it gets you today. That's my point. The same can be said at any given price point.A C2200 (to take Mc, since ... | |
| arunaaditya71 If you are to play only from cd player, then 16/44 is enough. Higher rez needed if playing from other sources, or if upsampling. | |
| Windows 7 or 8 64 bit for music only Consider Windows Server 2012, which is server version of Win 8. WS2012 plus the Optimizer results in an outstanding improvement. The interface of WS is just like Windows.Check out computeraudiophile.com and the jplay forum within the computer audi... | |
| Audiophile newbie Part 2 jwilsco, please look into the pc audio section in this forum. Including a recent thread were we went into this. Use the search engine, and you can look for my user-id. Computers can take you a long way. You can start super simple (laptop and async... | |
| Preamp for mc275le. Need advice, please Hey. That's a great wife!!I'm sure the C50 is a good pre - haven't heard it. But preamps are a mature technology, just like amps, while DACs are changing very fast. Hence I don't think it's a good idea to buy a pre with DAC inside unless you don't... | |
| Music server for a newbie I'll second the recommendation for dBPoweramp for ripping. Moreover, check out the Guide to Ripping CDs at computeraudiophile.com. It will tell you how to set it up once, and thereafter you can completely forget about settings. I follow it to a t ... |