cat6man

I am a fan of the sotm dx-usbHD with super lock mod. I use the aes/ebu output.

thanks for the offer. i'm going to try to get things to run in linux under wine to check out upsampling to 192k and also to equalize stax-009 headphones. if i fail to get the software to run in linux, i'll take you up on the offer of help with processing a few files.

has anyone used this with 1) a totalDAC (which are limited to 24/192)? 2) for equalizing stax headphones?

View Classified FS: Uptone Audio LPS1.2 Spring cleaning sale following upgrade of my system from streamer to standalone music server. For sale: LPS1.2 in very good condition (i may be able to free up a 2nd one later as i reconfigure my system) Price: $350 (shipping in US and paypal included) this was purchased w/ a wall wart power supply and used with an etherRegen in my system i cannot keep track of which wall wart is which :) as i move things around and also used a hdplex. the wall wart SPS i have with is from Uptone Audio and has been modified with the negative shunt to ground recommended by John Swenson (later version SPS had this already done). this mod is the reason i put green tape (with the notation negative shunted to ground) as a reminder around the SPS. i may or may not have the orginal box but will pack securely either way. i also have an excellent streaming NUC for sale reliable seller and buyer (see head-fi, audiomart) Seller cat6man Date 02/11/21 Price 350.00 USD Category Power Supplies / Power Products

View Classified FS: HDPLEX 200 power supply (SOLD) Spring cleaning sale following upgrade of my system from streamer to standalone music server. For sale: HDPLEX 200 power supply Price: $300 (paypal included) I can deliver local NJ/NY area or buyers pays shipping. This is a great choice for powering a NUC with 19v and 3 other devices (5-12v) simultaneously (see picture) just looked in the basement and i do have the original box and will ship with cables. i have to do some reconfiguration work this weekend, since this is still in use powering my SageTV/PVR system, so i won't be able to ship until monday. i also have a NUC and some other power supplies for sale (see my other listings) reliable seller and buyer (see head-fi, audiomart) Seller cat6man Date 02/10/21 Price 300.00 USD Category Music Servers / Streamers

View Classified FS: 7i7 NUC w/ 8GB apacer ram, 32GB optane (removed) Spring cleaning sale following upgrade of my system from streamer to standalone music server. For sale: 7i7 NUC with ram and optane (original price $1050) For sale: another PRICE DROP (3/5/21) to $600 (shipping in US and paypal included) UPDATE: no longer for sale as i will use the 7i7, with different ram and optane, to replace my 5i5 SageTV PVR. the RAM and optane may be for sale separately. This NUC was designed for streaming and is a great match with audio-linux, euphony and LMS/squeezelite, all of which I have used at one time or another. It comes with 8GB of Apacer RAM (the rare cl19/2666) and 32GB of Optane memory. The 8GB of Apacer RAM really comes into its own when using it for RAMROOT (yes, it really does sound better than the generic RAM I had originally purchased) or for a very large squeezelite buffer. If you are interested in a subset of the above (e.g. without the optane), let me know and i'll work out a lower price. i have the original box and power supply and will double pack. i also have some power supplies for sale (see my other listings). reliable seller and buyer (see head-fi, audiomart) price drop 2/16 2nd price drop 2/21 3rd price drop 2/26 another price drop 3/5 removed Seller cat6man Date 02/10/21 Price 600.00 USD Category Music Servers / Streamers

View Classified FS: Paul Hynes SR-4 power supply (SOLD) Spring cleaning sale following upgrade of my system from streamer to standalone music server. For sale: Paul Hynes SR4-12 in very good condition Price: $475 (shipping in US and paypal included) This includes a 1 meter PH cable with a 2.1mm plug. User selectable at rear for 12v, 9v, 7v or 5v i also have a NUC and some power supplies for sale (see my other listings) reliable seller and buyer (see head-fi, audiomart) Seller cat6man Date 02/10/21 Price 475.00 USD Category Music Servers / Streamers

View Classified FS: Uptone Audio etherRegen (SOLD) Spring cleaning sale following upgrade of my system from streamer to standalone music server. For sale: etherRegen in very good condition Price: $560 (shipping in US and paypal included) the etherRegen is back ordered at Uptone Audio and won't be available there until springtime per their website. this was purchased w/o a wall wart power supply and used with LPS1.2 in my system i also have some power supplies for sale (see my other listings) reliable seller and buyer (see head-fi, audiomart) Seller cat6man Date 02/10/21 Price 560.00 USD Category Music Servers / Streamers

aaaahhhh. i have the Shahen Shah album and love it. i never paid attention to what the first track was named! i agree, it is brilliant

ray, great reading, as always i enjoy your ability to describe what you hear and how you got there. can you tell me if this is the version you loved? https://www.amazon.com/Shams-Ud-Doha-Vol-114/dp/B07DKSB945

and just to clarify, the RPi bottleneck is running the combination of LMS + squeezelite + large squeezelite buffers. RPi/audiolinux seemed to work fine without large buffers, but in my NUC home based system the large buffers offer a substantial boost in SQ

update: i'm going to put this on hold and see about using a nuc wth audio-linux in the car, which should bring enough horsepower and ram to eliminate the bottlenecks i've been seeing with the RPi. the RPi will be put aside and brought out for some other project next year. so the new issue will be supplying 12v to both a nuc and a 6-8TB hdd.

update: 1. the addition of a usb3 500MB 2.5" HDD to the RPi was not successful as it clearly, together with the geekout dac, draws too much power. therefore, a small powered usb3 hub was added and both dac and hdd are powered off of the hub. 2. once the hub was added, running the RPi off of a charger capable of 5v @ 3a works fine. of course the hub requires the same, so i'll need a battery charger with dual usb3 charging output connections and capable of 6a total...tbd 3. compared the geekout 2a dac (on RPi) to my FiiO x7II dac (on its own) with the same music tracks on the HDD and the SD card of the FiiO. with ph15 headphones in balanced mode on both, the FiiO wins. it makes no sense to take a step backwards from the SQ i already have in the car, so....... 4. what about the FiiO as usb DAC, fed by RPi? with the same reduced buffer of 1G that worked with the geekout, i have the same problem of not being able to see squeezelite from the LMS. when reduced to 0.5G, it worksedintermittently, with the player sometimes locking up after the first track. in order to have reliable operation, i left the buffer command off completely (using whatever squeezelite does as default) and it works reliably, but i've lost the sonic advantages of buffering for now (hence no buffer optimization possible) 5. ramroot is next on my list of tasks tbd. first i'll make of a copy of the a-l SD card in case i screw something up later 6. iso-regen: have to find it, must be somewhere in the house :) so, it looks like squeezelite and various dac have different buffering and data flow interactions. once i squeeze(!) the best out of the RPi/DAC setup, perhaps i'll try my NUC based server to compare. so far, audio-linux (other than hosting LMS and squeezelite for all cases) has had no horse in this part of the race............ramroot mode is next

"have had a NUC running in my car", as in past tense? SQ crazy good.................... if so, what did you replace it with?

has anyone compared the SQ of audio-linux, comparing a RPi with a NUC?