Remember the V-word - we’ll be coming back to it.Īural satisfaction doesn’t fall entirely to the D/A converter but also to what we feed it – streamer/server – and how – digital cables. In other words, music sounds better rested. With decent hardware, music seems to flow more easily.

This can lend The Blue Nile’s “Stay” a little too much stridency or make Prefab Sprout’s “Cars and Girls” sound a tad thin or cause us to soon tire of Merck’s intense IDM mixes.Īn AudioQuest DragonFly Black hooked into a basic Mac or PC cannot hope to sound as effortlessly easeful as a high-end streamer pushing ones and zeroes into an Aqua La Scala MKII.īetter setups sound as they have spent time by the pool, sipping cocktails, enjoying the occasional massage and soaking up the sun. There can be a hardness in the treble or a rigidity with micro-dynamics reflexiveness. Poor sounding rigs sound nervous and tense. When we feel as good as this, life seems to come more easily.ĭigital audio isn’t all that different.

However – wherever – we choose to unwind, we to hope to return to our daily lives feeling rested still ourselves but looser of joint, with less tension in the shoulders, more relaxed. We might take a week by the pool in Thailand or two weeks hiking in Switzerland. The aim? To rid ourselves of the stress and tension of modern life. It’s what many of us dream of after months and months of the nine to five. Music Storage: Main Library: 6Tb Seagate HDD/Hub+6Tb Seagate HDD (all connections via 0.5m Avencore Premium USB 3.A holiday in the sun. JPLAY Settings: Playing via: KS, Engine: ULTRAstream, Bitstream: Native, Bitperfect Volume: OFF, DAC Link: 1000, XtreamSize: 1000, Throttle: ON, Hibernate Mode: ONĭual PC Equipment Configuration: Control Point Tablet/Laptop > WiFi > Control-PC > 1m SUPRA Cat 8 Ethernet Cable > Audio-PC > 3m Chord C-USB Cable > Rotel 1590C > 2m March Audio XLR cables (Mogami NEGLEX cable with Neutrik connectors) > March Audio P501 Monoblocks with Purifi 1ET7040SA modules > DIY speaker cables (Tycab PVC doubly insulated 11 AWG OFC wire, TechFlex braid, Neotech Banana/Spade connectors) > Bryston PX-1 external crossovers > DIY speaker cables (as before) > Bryston Model T Signature Speakers Renderer: JPLAY FEMTO 7.0D UPnP (Alternative version), Server: JPLAY FEMTO 7.0D femtoServer, File Manager: Q-Dir 11.4.1.0, Library Manager: JRiver MC 30.0.59 RAM Disk: Guide for automatically creating a RAM Disk that uses TrustedClean 2.88 to install Majiorit圜lean, LemonadeElitest, ExerciseStabilizer or ExtremeStabilizer as a service can be downloaded from TC2.88 (5 July 2023). For the full optimization procedure download my Guide for Optimizing WS2019 in a Dual or Single PC JPLAY Femto-Based System (revised 5 July 2023) from here. Process Lasso Server Edition 12.4.1.10, additional Windows processes/services stopped via registry editor, task manager and a modified CAD DSK script. Optimization: Audiophile Optimizer 3.0, ES88 as Local Service on RAM Disk on Control-PC and on RAM Disk on Audio-PC via TrustedClean 3.0 beta 9b on RAM Disk on both PCs (All CPU Cores, Default CPU Priority, CPU Optimizer, Set 0.5ms Timer Resolution, Portable Mode).

OS: Windows Server 2019 (Standard Edition) in highly optimized Desktop mode, command prompt shell for initial setup after which Control and Audio-PCs run headless (monitor, keyboard and mouse disconnected) Control Point: Apple iPad (9th gen), 64Gb storage, 3Gb RAM, JPLAY for iOS 1.0.12 Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Lite, 128Gb storage, 4Gb RAM, Bubble UPnP 4.1.3 Dell Inspilaptop (Windows 11 Professional (圆4) Version 22H2 (build 22621.2215), Intel Core i7-11390H, 2.93 GHz, 512Gb KIOXIA M2 PCIe NVMe (RAID) SSD, 16Gb DDR4 3200 MHz RAM), Upplay 1.6.4Ĭontrol and Audio-PCs: Asus Mini PC PN60, Intel Core i5 8250U 1.6 GHz, 250Gb Kingston A2000 M2 NVMe SSD and 8Gb DDR4 2400 MHz RAM.

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