John769

So the prevailing wisdom is to populate all C621e Sage memory slots with 4gb ram (presumably for better SQ). Does that carry over to any motherboard in that it's best to fill all available slots rather than leave any empty? nb. my build doesn't use that particular motherboard and only has four slots, ECC compatible, with just a single non-Xeon CPU socket. Just curious..

The Opto USB is something like £633 it appears ...so somewhat over budget unfortunately. Did the Monoprice have at least some audible benefit? Presumably it did -) I tried it a couple of years ago and found it incompatible with my ADI-2 dac but I read (on AS) that it works with a Matrix SPDIF 2, so might give it another go.

Hi. Just wondering how the fibbrcable stacked up in the end?

Isn't it ATX? Can't find a block diagram unfortunately.

Didn't realise that! I used a pair of FTLX1475D3BCV in OM -> Buffulo GS 2024 (both 1gbe devices) back in the summer. Seemed to work ok but soon replaced with Finisar ...1321 and Finisar ...1324, which sounded better to my ears. Could it have caused any physical damage? 🙃

Which is? (out of interest) 😐

Very nice cover, which I did notice though..

If you use a solarflare 8522 in a reasonably powerful server machine with passive cooling, playing native hi-res PCM only, would you likely need to leave the top cover off due to the extra heat produced by the card? Obvioulsy, a very generalised question indeed (influenced by many factors) but just trying to get a sense of how much of a 'heating element' the card could be in practice.-)

@jabbr Do you power your network gear, such as switches, into the same outlets as your servers or have a difference set of outlets somewhere else for them? Like you, I have my endpoint and dac in a separate room from the server. Both use their own isolation transformers. The network gear uses a nearby AC socket to the server, but without going through the server's IT. Just checking I've got things configured well from an AC perspective.👌

Do folks using a ER-X SFP connect its single SFP port towards the modem or in the other direction towards the switch etc? Hopefully that's not a silly question..

Plucked from a current thread on LPS's in the net section. I have no idea if import charges from worldwide places (outside the EU) to UK are more than they were pre 2021. Dreading to find out.. 🤔 https://www.aliexpress.com/i/32966779449.html

Using a m.2 to pci riser and pink faun i2s bridge?

@One and a half thanks!

Thanks and ordered! Needed something for listening to tunes while doing occasional jobs in the garage. Will report back with findings.

Are you able to notice any obvious anomalies with this one? Limited viewing from the pics though. https://www.aliexpress.com/i/32966779449.html