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Miska, I have done a couple additional things since you helped me with the NUC 3 NAA Win 10. I decided to build another NAA Win 10 device using the same info from the NUC 3 one. The new one has a ITX older ASRock H87m board an I3-4360 chip and 16g Ram. It has a better power supply and a Silverstone fanless case and a Jcat USB card in it. Plus it has a purchased Fidelizer Pro that lowers latency. I used it some time back as my JRiver server before I switched to Roon then used it as a Roon endpoint. I just tried the DSD512. Is playing fine CPU at 35 to 39% and temps 42-56c. Sounds good. Any help/advice will be greatly appreciated

I had it set to sincM / Nx as sincM / ASDM7ECv2 DSD256 and I would get the 1 +/- sec pause every 30-40 sec. No pause on any other setting. No hiss or noise just the little pause otherwise sounded very good. Only ran it that way for maybe 5 min or so. Then switched to the poly-sinc-gauss-xla / Nx poly-sinc-gauss-xla / ASDM7ECv2 DSD256 heat went up a bit 5-7c but still fine and no pause. Thought it sounded slightly better on sincM but very short listening. Now using poly-sinc-short mp / nx poly-sinc short-lp / ASDM7ECv2 DSD256 as was getting slight sibilance on older rock cuts so new setup improves that somewhat. Plus cpu usage at 20% solidly and heat at 33-40c. Been listening for a few hours and no glitches and sounds very good. Probably going to try to do DSD512 shortly keeping everything else the same and watch cpu/heat and see what happens...what do you think? Thanks for taking the time to respond! Still trying to learn which settings work and what they sound like...newbe on the settings for sure.

Hello Miska, This setup has worked so far. Ran the same settings initially I had before just removed the DoP . Sounded about the same as the other NAA. Clicked up to DSD256 and was getting a 1 sec or so pause about every 40 sec or so of playing. No other sound issues but occasional pause. Temps on the PC were only about 40-45C so wasn't a heat problem. Sounded very good though other than pauses. Went from sincM / ASDM7ECv2 to poly-sinc-gauss-xla /ASDM7ECv2 , pauses stopped heat went up 48-54C. Stilled sounded good, maybe not quite but close. Tried poly-sinc-gauss-hires-lp / ASDM7ECv2 heat went down 38-43C, still sounds quite good...letting it play for a while and then may try DSD512. Any suggestions you may have feel free...Windows 11 PC / Intel I7-13700-Artic 240 watercooled-32g DDR4 ram 3600mhz Corsair Vengence LPX no GPU at this point.. I am using Roon Rock with a NUC8I7 in a Akasa fanless case.

Excellent. I still have this in my office not yet hooked to the DAC for testing....you have done great for me so thank you very much... I hope if anyone else is trying to do this job they can find these posts....

OK Miska thanks for that...it solved the files not found issue. So after running the batch file I get this feedback so I think now I need to understand what needs to be done on the .bat file editing to get to the next level...let me know what you think when you have time...thanks again!

Tried running the networkaudiod.exe this time and got a MSVCP140.dll was not found then the same VCRUNTIME140_1.dll not found. Looks like I need some additional package to make this work then the .bat file needs some mods too...please advise if you have time. Thanks Russ

Thanks for that. Here is where I have gone so far today. I do have a Win 10 install on this I3 NUC 3? with 8 gigs ram and paired down and debloated. I found the networkaudiod download ver 4.23 and install the T+A Dac 8 DSD asio drivers on the NUC 3 and put the networkaudiod.exe file and the .bat file on there as well. tried running the .bat file and got an error VCRUNTIME140_1.dll missing. So far that is where I am...pretty much a newbe on the HQPlayer / NAA front. Am currently listening to my other NAA on the NUC 5 playing the T+A DAC 8 at DoP DSD128 with sincM and ASDM7ECv2 and it sounds quite good and could just stay with that but would like to try going to DSD256 or 512. I do think the HQPLAYER V5 PC has enough HP to go further up if I can get a Win 10 NAA functional. Russ

Downloaded the CORE ISO file and it is not bootable. The core iso has three versions in it with .msi extensions ARM/X64/X86. My experience with .MSI packages is that they are programs to be installed on an already working version of windows. Not familiar on how to make a bootable package to install on this NUC... Maybe not as versed on non standard installs as I need to be to get this done...thx

Miska, did you use the Windows 10 LoT core version as there is one called Enterprise version. I assume the Core but just want to verify...Thx

Hello Miska, I am not totally familiar with this but will try to grasp and grab the ISO and other software I can and go from there. I have a older Intel NUC 3 (I don't think they had them numbered on the earlier ones) but it will run windows 10 so I will try to get this working if I can follow your lead. Thanks for the help and I may be back to ask questions if you are incline to help with this endeavor. I am familiar with modifying .bat files but not sure on the "modify the NAA name" instruction and what I would need to do there...thanks for the help so far...Russ

Hello, I have built and am using a NAA from a NUC5 with fanless case and the file downloaded from the website on a usb stick an it is working well. I have built a PC with a Intel 13700 processor and am feeding the files to the NAA and have been successful using DSD512 with syncM and the ASM7EC2 to a Denafrips ARES 12-1 DAC. I now have a T+A DAC 8 DSD and would like to use it instead. Of course with this setup all I can do is DSD128 over DoP. I have a number of PC's available to build a windows based NAA and use the ASIO windows driver to get the DSD512 thruput with the T+8. No I do not plan to update the firmware to the non factory one that allows this via Linux as I would prefer being able to use a Windows server later unless a firmware is created that allows both. So I see in this series of posts Miska stated to not use Windows for a NAA unless you have a reason to do so...and this would be the reason. Is there a ISO/file that allows for this or does anyone have a post/blog where they have been successful with this T+A DAC? Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated. I am fairly computer literate and pretty much make most anything work with enough time spent...it would just be nice to see if others have done this and get some direction/software to make this less time consuming.. Thanks in advance Russ

I would like to add in a last bit on the Calyx/QB9 debate. Now I must qualify that I do not have or have heard the QB9 but have heard that Charles Hanson has stated they used the C5XE to voice the QB9 and they are on pare more or less. My C5xe is an excellent player and it sounds great. It does have a house sound that is a bit more laid back compared to the Calyx playing thru a computer based system. I prefer it to the Ayre on my redbook files but only slightly...others may prefer the Ayre sound...each person has different areas of the spectrum that mean more to them. I think it throws a wider deeper soundstage...not leap and bounds but say 10+/-% with redbook sources...that is what I like. The extension is a bit deeper than the Ayre...I also like that by maybe 5%...there are a lot of varibles in a computer based system that can affect this...might not just be the DAC itself. The Calyx does not show the same properties played thru the COAX input that it has thru the USB input from the computer...what does this mean....not sure yet. But as I have stated before...I can not play DSD .DFF files in native tru bit yet with my DAC although JRiver will down sample and play them but they do not sound as good as the Ayre playing them native which boils down to this...I really like the Calyx DAC a lot so that is all I have to say at this point...

What you are getting at here...I might just be offended by your insinuation. All I was trying to express is the the Calyx is quite a surprise to me...I have no other horse in this race...not associated with anyone selling this unit...just a consumer as I assume you are.the Ayre C5XE is an exceptional player or I wouldn't have bought one. It has many of the attributes you attest to the QB9. The Calyx also has many of the attributes you mention it has...it is like wines many people like the new world fruit bomb Syrah's and Cabs and prefer them many like the old world styles from Italy and France...neither is right or wrong...I am of the fruit bomb catagory and the Calyx leans more that way for me...the Ayre is superior playing SACD material as the Calyx does not support bit perfect playback of DSD material...the price of that club is a Playback Designs DAC at 10 times the price...so to clarify the convience of a Computer playback system for my redbook files favors the Calyx and disc playback of SACD's is still in the C5XE camp so both sit side by side...