A toast to PGGB, a heady brew of math and magic

[bobfa]

1. There is a trial version.  It will do five files at a time.

2. Read Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

3. I paid the full license fee and I am sure others did also.  Ray Noted this in his post above!

4.The software runs a very complex set of operations that to be frank eats RAM while running.

5. All I did was add RAM to my  Ryzen 7300 machine and a 4tb SSD for input and output conversions. 16fs files are huge!

6.  If you read the documentation you should see that the system needs Internet access for time checking to validation license, etc.

7.  I do not see any reason this would not run on the CAPS machine.  You would want more RAM and ensure that you have fast storage for conversions.

8. I have found that the results with the three Chord DACs I have is rather impressive.

 

I am NOT being compensated for my words here.

 

@ray-dude has been of great help to me during the testing phase. 

 

[bobfa]

I have not had any time to do comparisons or write anything.  I need to update my music server with some new software and see what that does first.  It will be a couple of weeks before I can even think about this.

 

 

[bobfa]

20 minutes ago, austinpop said:

 

As someone who just redid almost 300 albums because I switched from 32-bit to 24-bit files (for using the SRC-DX bridge with my DAVE), redoing the upsampling is not that big a deal. If you wait for a *rumored* machine, you're just depriving yourself. Even at a cap of 256M taps, PGGB makes a massive improvement over the native file!

 

BTW - during the initial development, I must have redone my albums 4-5 times as ZB made incremental improvements. I did not regret it one iota.

I am in the process of running about 500 albums to 24bit.   Just letting things crank!.  I wish my mother board did 128gb of RAM.  I may just build another PC.  I have about 4TB of music files that I could re-master.   I have not started on the classical yet, or the DSDs....  All I need is the RAM and a Motherboard that will take my CPU.    The old machine is sunk cost....  

 

[bobfa]

26 minutes ago, austinpop said:

 

Please see the section on USB improvements part 2:

 

 https://audiophilestyle.com/forums/topic/30376-a-novel-way-to-massively-improve-the-sq-of-computer-audio-streaming/?do=findComment&comment=1130590

 

I have not invested much in the BNC digital cables.  We will see what my pair of cables from Moon audio does!.  Toes firmly dipped into the water.  Hopefully the bottom of the lake is not quicksand!

[bobfa]

I have not tried this yet, but I wondered about resampling a 'bad' track to say, 4fs for my pro studio DAC would help the sound.