HQPlayer4 EC modulator tips and techniques

[luisma]

On 8/20/2019 at 6:35 PM, lmitche said:

No, the Ryzen machine runs Roonserver, a NUC i7 is connected witelessly to the DAC.

 

I install the GPU, do the setup and then remove it.

It doesn't get any more headless than that

[luisma]

13 hours ago, Miska said:

And I don't really use Roon that much. I end up using mconnect Player more for playing Tidal, and local content is played by HQPlayer directly.

Very nice simplification, is there anything to stream qobuz?

[luisma]

1 hour ago, randytsuch said:

If I try to connect as root over ssh to hqp OS, connection is refused.

ssh doesn't seem to be enabled nor installed, probably by design to create a minimum footprint and efficient OS

 

[luisma]

27 minutes ago, Miska said:

 

Did Roon also support Qobuz these days? Sorry, I'm a bit outdated on that front because Qobuz is not available in Finland. So I have never tried it myself.

 

For the last 6 months or so yes it does support Qobuz

[luisma]

On 8/25/2019 at 8:48 AM, asdf1000 said:

 

All do Tidal and Qobuz, to HQP Embedded & HQP OS UPnP input

For this to work I need some other input into hqp OS right? Currently mconnect or bubble UPnP from Android tablet can't see hqp os natively 

 

[luisma]

10 hours ago, StreamFidelity said:

Do you use hyperthreading?

Related to this, I disabled multi threading on my 2 cores nuc and HQPe maxes on 1 core, when turning multi threading back on it uses both cores, I'm running AL. 

If you guys turn on multi threading does HQPe uses all the cores available? (not the threads of course) physical cores I mean. 

[luisma]

17 hours ago, Miska said:

 

Do not turn off threading in the CPU. HQPlayer understands CPU topology and knows how to hook onto real cores and can also utilize thread

Sure, I noticed, thanks for the advise 

[luisma]

17 hours ago, Miska said:

This optimization is coming first to next HQPlayer Embedded release

And thank you for continuing to update this great software, your contribution to the audio community it is extremely valuable 

[luisma]

On 3/4/2020 at 3:11 AM, Miska said:

It is more about the kind of fans used. For example my big audio PC is silent although it has CPU fan, four case fans, PSU fan and three GPU fans. It would be interesting to see such passive cooled, with 1000W PSU, overclocked GeForce RTX2080Ti and CPU with >120W TDP.

Hi Jussi, I now you are using Noctua (and some other brand too) for the CPU which are very quiet, for the case fans what model / brand do you use? PSU fan? thought you were using the fanless Seasonics

[luisma]

On 3/4/2020 at 2:20 PM, Miska said:

The 1000W PSU I have is this:

https://seasonic.com/prime-ultra-titanium

Impressive technology, even the cables they provide are impressive, micro regulation, support for power disabled drives (which are the ones used on servers etc) and you can run up to 450W fanless. Very cool indeed.

 

[luisma]

On 4/11/2020 at 12:28 PM, Miska said:

I needed to go with ASUS motherboard instead of planned Gigabyte due to this. Only figured it out when I started to put the machine together.

Can you share which Gigabyte you were planning on to? and which Asus you ended up getting? I have been thinking on getting this one X570 I AORUS PRO WIFI, would you prefer the USB 3.1G2 or maybe get one of the ones with DAC port? I will be using the HDPlex H5 case

[luisma]

3 hours ago, Miska said:

I first got Gigabyte Z170MX-Gaming5

Thanks, do you have a Streacom FC4 or HDPlex 2nd Gen H5?