Doug Bowerman

You acquired some special parts for the power supply, and had to protect the design. I would like to know how to go about learning how you make a custom power supply, the rails, the caps, transformers, etc. That is probably outside the scope of this thread because others seem to understand, but I’d like to know because it’s over my head.

I scanned the album. It resulted in a 9. I’m trying to figure out how to get the results of all tracks. foo_dr.txt

I was so excited when I read the hdtracks email. And 20 percent off too! I got the super deluxe edition at 192/24. I’ve listened almost twice through. Compared to my CD rip of Appetite it’s just amazing. My adjectives are lacking, bit it’s just So Alive! I wore out the cassette in the 80s, and bought the CD when it came out. This is just amazing. I’m not a super fan of any group, but the extra tracks are awesome. Track 39 ended up in its own folder for some reason. I didn’t realize until I put on my player.

I wanted to piggy back off this thread because I noticed and purchased Countdown to Extinction today. It was mentioned in this thread. It is one of my favorites, and I felt like having it in higher resolution 92/24. I kinda wish I'd have caught this thread first as I probably wouldn't buy it. But, since I have it I can compare and contrast. I listened to a few of my favorites. Something sounded off, and not quite right. I grabbed my 1992 CD and ripped it to flac to find out what sounded off about the 2012 hires On the 2012 when the familiar snare/cymbol/bass hit hard the compression lowered the surrounding BAM! impact that I was expecting. On the 1992 the wet reverb sounds so good and lets all those beats breathe. The high hat and cymbals sound clean on the 2012, but are buried in the guitar's and vocal's levels. The guitars peaks are grainy and distorted. The vocals in the 1992 CD has a lot of space in it, and although quieter than the 2012, is pretty clean in that bigger room reverb. The 2012 brings the vocals forward. They sound drier, and the peaks are grainy and distorted. As said above it sounds brickwalled. The spacious sound is just not there. Anyway, that's my short rant. I'm not gonna kick it to the curb because it might sound ok in the car or with my cheap earbuds. But for my IEMs I think I'll just listen to the 1992 version and turn up the volume a little more. Doug

That gives me something to consider. The Linksys WES610N Entertainment Bridge is more money, but could be worth having for future Ethernet devices. I may just stick with the Cisco AE1000 USB adapter based on my current network setup operating without issues. Perhaps the load on the CPU creates the extra heat. I'm thinking that there would be way less information passed over the wireless adapter than a hard drive. I'm planning on a DAC/Amp as well. Thank you for your recommendation! Doug

Hello, I am thinking of building a CAPS v3 Topanga. I saw how using a USB external hard drive uses the CPU for handling low level operation and can load it up with buffer copies. What about a USB wireless Ethernet adapter? Does that still do too much on the CPU for the Topanga build? The logic supply is not going to have the antenna until 1/24. I really like the external Cisco adapters for their ease of installation plus I rarely, almost never, have to restart my router, and the wireless adapter always has a connection. I also want to know if a headphone DAC/Amp is necessary or the server is so good that using the motherboard's on board headphone jack is usable. I can probably guess that I am defeating the purpose of the dedicated server unless I get a DAC/amp right? Doug