Popular Post miguelito Posted March 23, 2017 Popular Post Share Posted March 23, 2017 On 9/14/2015 at 11:45 PM, sgr said: Hi, I hope Software is the correct place for this question as I want to build a PC to run the combo of HQ Player and ROON. Software drives the hardware, right? I want to upgrade my Server so it can easily handle the upcoming ROON/HQ Player combination. I have an Audio PC (i7, lpsu, fanless, etc) which connects my Big7 DAC via jPlay. I believe I'm in great shape there. Right now I'm using an AMD Athalon PC as my control PC in jPlay streamer mode. I once used it just as a server with my music files, but when jPlay streamer became available I had to try it. Better sound. Then I decided to try jplay dual PC mode and use it as my control PC as well. Again much better sound then before. Software Used on both Audio and Control PC: jRiver, Windows Server 2012 v2, jPlay, AudiophileOptimizer, Fidelizer 6, dbpoweramp, etc. Future Software: Windows 10?, ROON, HQ Player Its time to update the Server/Control PC. In place now: Seasonic Fanless power supply, Corsair ATX Tower, CPU: Xeon or i7? Which one? Which model? Needs to be less than 95 watts. MOBO? RAM: 16Gb What brand and type? Is ECC needed? SSD: Samsung 850 Pro? Or maybe I'd be better off buying a CAPS Pipeline to use as a control PC? Thus keeping the server separate from the audio and control PC? Thanks for your informed suggestions. Get an ass ugly noisy server with a cuda card. Put that in a different room. Get a microrendu to stream to. Peace a cako. jabbr and jhwalker 2 NUC10i7 + Roon ROCK > dCS Rossini APEX DAC + dCS Rossini Master Clock SME 20/3 + SME V + Dynavector XV-1s or ANUK IO Gold > vdH The Grail or Kondo KSL-SFz + ANK L3 Phono Audio Note Kondo Ongaku > Avantgarde Duo Mezzo Signal cables: Kondo Silver, Crystal Cable phono Power cables: Kondo, Shunyata, van den Hul system pics Link to comment
miguelito Posted May 2, 2017 Share Posted May 2, 2017 4 minutes ago, ted_b said: so this small innocuous machine can be minimalist in design as all it houses is the NAA software and a dac driver (and USB out). That's called a microRendu! NUC10i7 + Roon ROCK > dCS Rossini APEX DAC + dCS Rossini Master Clock SME 20/3 + SME V + Dynavector XV-1s or ANUK IO Gold > vdH The Grail or Kondo KSL-SFz + ANK L3 Phono Audio Note Kondo Ongaku > Avantgarde Duo Mezzo Signal cables: Kondo Silver, Crystal Cable phono Power cables: Kondo, Shunyata, van den Hul system pics Link to comment
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