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  1. Listened to the Pro version of the software over the weekend. For right around $350 my DIY music player sounds unbelievably good. Thanks for the software that provides the finishing touch.
  2. I hope it sells well and they develop a range of products. Much more useful than churning through wires to find the tone you like.
  3. I just built a new music player based on an ASRock J4205-ITX motherboard (embedded Intel Pentium quad-core CPU). I am running Windows 10, JRiver, and Tidal HiFi/Masters. I downloaded the free version of the Fidelizer software and ran the Audiophile Optimization Level (while this is a dedicated computer I am wary about running the Purist Optimization Level as I want Windows to keep updated and I need to be able to stream Tidal). I have listened for a couple of hours last night after running the optimization and felt the music was better than ever. I did not do blind tests or even A/B testing so my impressions are not statistically valid, but the results are making me consider trying the Plus or Pro versions of the software (not really sure what the differences are). Happy with the software!
  4. A $25 linux-based music server would be cool. It looks like it can play 1080p video (although with difficulty), I would think reading music files off a hard-drive would be significanlty less taxing. Link to media server: http://www.raspberrypi.org/forum/general-discussion/xbmc-running-on-raspberry-pi?value=XBMC&type=1&include=3&search=1&ret=all Hopefully one of the computer gurus will make a dedicated music server with the platform once it widely available. It is amazing how cheap computer power has gotten thanks to Moore's Law and the proliferation of smart phones. The use of a smart phone chip also reduces the need for power, I assume low power chips are "quiter" than higher power chips reducing the need for an expensive power source (mearly a guess).
  5. Thanks for the information. Now I need to figure out how to set up a home network that is not on the internet. I already have an iPod touch to use as a controller. Wish I wasn't so ignorant on computing issues.
  6. Hi, I have been doing a lot of research on file player’s and DAC’s. I am currently active duty U.S. Navy stationed in Cambodia, where the internet is not high speed or stable. My current computer audio system is my wife’s laptop (running Win 7 64-bit Home Edition and iTunes), where the USB output is converted to S/PDIF (Toslink) via a cheap Behringer UCA202 USB audio adapter and decoded by the internal DAC’s of an Onkyo TX-SR805 (Burr-Brown 192 kHz/24-Bit DACs [TI PCM1796 chip]). I used the instruction for windows from the Audioquest website to optimize performance. I am amazed by how good this hodgepodge setup sounds through my fully upgraded 4 Pi speakers (Pi Speakers, Tulsa, OK). I am looking to switch from iTunes to JRiver in the near future. I am thinking that a dedicated file server/DAC would have to be superior in nearly every way. I have investigated the Auraliti PK90/PK100 and Small Green Computer products, as the Bryston BDP-1 and Sonore offerings are currently more expensive than I am willing to spend. I am specifically looking for a setup that reads from a USB hardrive (files loaded on the drive from a secondary computer connected to the internet). I do not want the requirement for wifi as the internet here is pretty unstable and I HATE continually resyncing the modem/router (I had to frequently do this with my internet in the US, I cannot imagine how bad it would be here). Without internet connectivity I am not sure how one could control these types of devices. Thanks for any advice. I have looked into building my own from a minimac or dedicated PC, but the cost seems to be higher than the Auraliti products.
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