The Best for the Least

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$152.84 Supermicro X10SBA-L
https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B00F0YJC28

 

$70.28 Supermicro CSE-101S
http://www.wiredzone.com/supermicro-racks-kvm-chassis-power-server-chassis-mini-tower-cse-101s-10024456

 

$49.98 JRiver Media Center

https://rover.jriver.com/cgi-bin/buy.cgi?productid=76

 

$49.00 iFi iPower 12V Power Supply
https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B01LZD8SHJ

 

$900.00 Used Chord 2Qute (prices will continue to drop after the launch of Quetest)
https://www.head-fi.org/threads/fs-black-chord-2qute-sold.870262/

 

$695.00 to $3,195.00 Omega Monitor Speakers

https://omegaloudspeakers.com/collections/monitor-speakers
 

Just add stuff like cheap RAM and SSD, and then there's no need to activate Windows 10.

 

Supermicro X10SBA-L (chosen for the excellent Innuos ZENith SE Mk.II) is a fantastic motherboard for the money

 

http://hifipig.com/innuos-zenith-mk2/

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“We had to go through a very detailed oscilloscope for measurements. We have literally tested dozens of system boards and the noise patterns you get vary wildly between them. Some are absolutely dreadful and should never be used for audio.

 

Hard to beat the transparency of the Chord + Omega combo since we don't even need an amplifier, volume control is handled by JRiver Media Center

 

https://www.computeraudiophile.com/forums/topic/24248-chord-2qute/?page=14

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42 minutes ago, One and a half said:

The Supermicro server's supplied power supply is 60W. The ifi 12V supply is capable of 1.8A, that is 21.6W, 38.4W short. 60W at 12V is 5A, there needs to be an alternative since the paralleling ifi iPower is not easy if not improbably difficult to achieve load sharing. Besides, the iPower still is SMPS and to be avoided, I replaced an iPower with a linear PSU and the iPower is staying in the drawer. Teddy Pardo designs or a cast of others would fulfil 60W at 12V easily enough.

 

Lots of theories that turned out to be very different from what's happening in practice

 

https://www.computeraudiophile.com/forums/topic/30376-a-novel-way-to-massively-improve-the-sq-of-computer-audio-streaming/?page=244&tab=comments#comment-774699

6 hours ago, jean-michel6 said:

I do have a dual pc set up with x10 sba board. 

I am using only the 12v connector to power them. 

All the accessories have their own dedicated psu. 

I have been able to power the board with simple 12v 1.8A IFI power psu. 

The results are already very good. 

You want really to avoid the pico psi which is so noisy. 

I used to have a gigabyte set up with 4 battery psu 2 for the CPU and 2 for the pico psu. 

Results were far away for the X10 sba. 

I will later power them with sotm sps 500

 

I wouldn't have mentioned iPower if the keywords weren't "The Best for the Least".