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$2,499 for 7970X https://www.newegg.com/amd-threadripper-pro-7965wx-350w-sp6-ryzen-threadripper-7000-series/p/N82E16819113806 $899 for the motherboard https://www.newegg.com/asus-pro-ws-trx50-sage-wifi/p/N82E16813119666 We don't necessarily need THAT much RAM to begin with, and then we might grab an Optane P5800X since I heard pretty good things from another audiophile who acquired the 400GB version. Though *THE* most intriguing aspect of that particular motherboard should be powering everything with multiple PSUs, we're gonna have lots of fun since ASUS actually decided to provide a pair of 24-pin ATX connectors rather than only one. In terms of latency, so far 7970X seemed to be fine despite having to deal with the nature of RDIMMs https://hothardware.com/reviews/amd-ryzen-threadripper-7980x-and-7970x-review?page=3 Faster ones as follows https://v-color.net/products/ddr5-oc-rdimm-amd-trx50-workstation-memory Most importantly, the overall SQ should be largely determined by the temperature of the entire rig. That's gotta be the tricky part since either active or passive cooling would come with different pros and cons.

Packages for Arch Linux are also available, maintained by blackhole https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/audirvana-origin https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/audirvana-studio BTW, kernels with Xenomai4 / EVL seemed to yield the best SQ for 12th Gen Intel Core or above https://github.com/sam0402/ArchQ#readme

Except for the fact that nobody could predict what those Roonatics would do in the background in the first place, while not always knowing what anyone could do to "tame" any Roonatics to begin with, and then who knows the size of the entire music library would look like etc. https://audiophilestyle.com/forums/topic/58164-building-a-diy-music-server/page/69/#comment-1105181 Roon high CPU usage and loading slowly warnings https://community.roonlabs.com/t/roon-high-cpu-usage-and-loading-slowly-warnings/242922 https://audiophilestyle.com/forums/topic/69011-article-harman-acquires-roon/page/2/#comment-1261663

Direct link to their post https://www.whatsbestforum.com/threads/introducing-olympus-olympus-i-o-a-new-perspective-on-modern-music-playback.37939/page-73#post-961237 The board layout as well the as the number of VRMs etc. looked really like a perfect match https://dlcdnwebimgs.asus.com/gain/be6effb0-a7ae-459e-bf4b-79ef39163cb1//fwebp Though EPYC 9004 came with 6,096 contacts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socket_SP5 Then EPYC 8004 came with 4,844 contacts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socket_SP6 While Ryzen Threadripper 7000 (with 350W TDP for every single processor despite having different number of cores) also came with 4,844 contacts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socket_sTR5 Socket SP5 for EPYC 9004 Socket SP6 for EPYC 8004 Socket sTR5 for Ryzen Threadripper 7000 I guess that having a single CPU should be quite doable despite having to deal with something @ 350W TDP https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/power-analysis-amd-ryzen-threadripper-7000/ While spreading everything across a whopping 47 VRM stages should be fine and dandy, even though every single heatsink for those VRMs should be already gone for good https://www.techpowerup.com/315981/asus-breaks-overclocking-records-9-world-records-16-global-first-places

In terms of caching purposes, we'll need at least 1TB for PCIe drives while the U.2 version of Optane 905P would still cost way too much at the moment even if they're already discontinued by Intel https://www.ebay.com/itm/294399688963 https://www.newegg.com/intel-optane-ssd-905p-series-960gb/p/N82E16820167463 While Optane should be great in terms of both longevity and latency, the sequential write speed should be THE most important for caching purposes. We're gonna get a much better deal with any PCIe Gen 4 or even Gen 5 drives (i.e. the M.2 2280 ones) these days since it's just inevitable that the latest models would totally "smoke" any relatively old Optane drives. As long as we've got free PCIe x16 slots that are connected to the CPU directly, read the manual of the motherboard and make sure that PCIe Bifurcation is actually supported. Then we could get one of these PCIe adapters in order to install 4 M.2 2280 NVMe drives https://shop.asus.com/us/90mc0cy0-mvaay0-hyper-m-2-x16-gen5-card.html https://www.asus.com/motherboards-components/motherboards/accessories/hyper-m-2-x16-gen5-card/ https://www.asus.com/motherboards-components/motherboards/accessories/hyper-m-2-x16-gen-4-card/ BTW, my post about Optane DCPMM should be more about taking advantage of those REALLY high core counts of (Cascade Lake-SP) 2nd Gen Xeon Scalable processors since Intel reserved specific SKUs for their cloud computing customers such as Amazon etc. We're gonna get a whopping 48 to 56 threads for cheap, depending on the number of cores available. OTOH, stuff like i9-14900K would provide only 32 threads to begin with and supposedly it's drawing over 400W during peak power https://www.anandtech.com/show/21084/intel-core-i9-14900k-core-i7-14700k-and-core-i5-14600k-review-raptor-lake-refreshed/6 Total system power consumption https://www.custompc.com/intel/core-i9-14900k-review https://en.overclocking.com/review-intel-i9-14900k-i7-14700k-and-i5-14600k/7/ If something were consuming THAT much power to begin with, then I'd rather consider CPUs with a relatively high number of threads since PGGB should be able to reap the benefits accordingly. (The cheapest Optane DCPMM would only work with specific models of 2nd Gen Xeon Scalable, though.)

Even 210W might be considered somewhat challenging for passive cooling during the boot-up process. Wouldn't 8324PN @ 130W TDP be quite a bit more realistic for the constraint of a fanless chassis? Its wide-temperature feature might also work in a similar way when compared to extended temperature range of Apacer RAM with superior SQ https://www.amd.com/en/products/processors/server/epyc/4th-generation-9004-and-8004-series.html

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Got a confirmation from @dmance and he's stating the same limitation with DBNC output of SRC•DX / input of Chord DAVE https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1552/8145/files/SRC-DX_User_s_Guide_2021.pdf#page=8 Then he also added that we've gotta stick with USB whenever we're trying DSD256 with Chord DAVE.

Virtually nothing would actually beat both conductivity and impedance of soldering / hardwiring (i.e bypassing the male + female connectors altogether) at all, otherwise @romaz wouldn't have posted all about them https://audiophilestyle.com/forums/topic/29458-ultracap™-lps-1-listening-impressions-thread/page/4/#comment-589391 https://audiophilestyle.com/forums/topic/29458-ultracap™-lps-1-listening-impressions-thread/page/7/#comment-595070 https://audiophilestyle.com/forums/topic/30376-a-novel-way-to-massively-improve-the-sq-of-computer-audio-streaming/page/720/#comment-1149407 https://audiophilestyle.com/forums/topic/30376-a-novel-way-to-massively-improve-the-sq-of-computer-audio-streaming/page/721/#comment-1149634 https://audiophilestyle.com/forums/topic/30376-a-novel-way-to-massively-improve-the-sq-of-computer-audio-streaming/page/721/#comment-1149674 While @Nenon might be happy with the impedance of Jaeger connectors (metal with relatively poor conductivity that is) back in 2019, obviously things evolved and he's also foregoing connectors even though the impedance might seem to be fairly low https://audiophilestyle.com/forums/topic/30376-a-novel-way-to-massively-improve-the-sq-of-computer-audio-streaming/page/593/#comment-987770 https://www.sealconusa.com/images/connectors/pdf/standard-rapid-series.pdf Then @romaz found something else that's quite interesting as well https://audiophilestyle.com/forums/topic/30376-a-novel-way-to-massively-improve-the-sq-of-computer-audio-streaming/page/723/#comment-1150466 https://www.helifreak.com/showthread.php?t=56967 I also posted these RCA jacks and plugs with impressive impedance and conductivity https://audiophilestyle.com/forums/topic/30376-a-novel-way-to-massively-improve-the-sq-of-computer-audio-streaming/page/723/#comment-1150480 https://audiophilestyle.com/forums/topic/30376-a-novel-way-to-massively-improve-the-sq-of-computer-audio-streaming/page/724/#comment-1156474 Whenever a 2-case design with umbilical cords are involved, both conductivity and impedance will be "ruined" as soon as connectors are added. Obviously those connectors couldn't be avoided in practice unless we're actually planning to put both cases in a permanent position, while actually having the "luxury" to solder that umbilical cord between them. Even if we're somehow managing to find the "best" female and male connectors in terms of both connectivity and impedance, it's still inevitable that at least some of the performance should be left on the table whenever we don't go for something else that's tried and true already. A situation like this would remind me how to make the right choices in our own lives https://nextbigideaclub.com/magazine/lessons-longevity-longest-lived-people-around-world-bookbite/46835/ Spending so much money and time on building the ULPS while "handicapping" everything afterwards, are you kidding me?

Some of us were kinda working on something similar about 3 years ago https://www.my-hiend.com/vbb/showthread.php?p=243567#post243567 Even something as trivial as Raspberry Pi 4B could enjoy better SQ by having a custom-made chassis, issues with heat and microvibrations should be taken care of simultaneously https://desalvoinc.com/collections/frontpage Then someone actually ordered their solid copper model for 250 bucks and that's like yet another level of improvements in the SQ department. Therefore I decided to get a quote from these guys https://www.hubs.com/manufacture/?technology=cnc-machining The C110 flavor already seemed to cost quite a bit to begin with, then I also tried C101 instead and it's like costing even more Obviously aluminium would cost MUCH less than either Copper C110 or C101, while we're also talking about something significantly larger for the Micro-ATX Form Factor plus the internal PSU on this thread. Unless we're going for at least a dozen units or preferably doubling that, the pricing of each individual unit wouldn't be reduced THAT much as shown above.

For those of us who aren't familiar with the differences between regular DDR4 and Intel Optane Persistent Memory, here are some examples https://glesys.se/blogg/benchmarking-intel-optane-dc-persistent-memory https://www.hpcwire.com/2020/02/19/japans-aist-benchmarks-intel-optane-cites-benefit-for-hpc-and-ai/ https://infohub.delltechnologies.com/en-US/l/r740xd-servers-with-intel-optane-dc-persistent-memory-handle-more-than-with-nand-flash-nvme-or-sata-ssds-2/performance-results/ Used 512GB sticks are going for $219 a piece or best offer https://www.ebay.com/itm/126343937974 Even cheaper ones were also available but not sure about the longevity since they wouldn't last as long as the "immortal" DDR4 https://www.ebay.com/itm/115939077343 128GB sticks are like 50 bucks or so a piece https://www.ebay.com/itm/296134704782 https://www.ebay.com/itm/305353892919 Asus WS C621E Sage is it still worth it https://forum.level1techs.com/t/asus-ws-c621e-sage-is-it-still-worth-it/208746/2 Xeon Platinum 8259CL https://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Xeon/Intel-Xeon 8259CL.html https://www.cpumodel.com/cpu/intel-xeon-platinum-8259cl-24-cores-lga3647-server/ Xeon Platinum 8272CL https://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Xeon/Intel-Xeon 8272CL.html https://www.cpumodel.com/cpu/intel-xeon-platinum-8272cl-26-cores-lga3647-server/ Xeon Platinum 8273CL https://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Xeon/Intel-Xeon 8273CL.html https://www.cpumodel.com/cpu/intel-xeon-platinum-8273cl-28-cores-lga3647-server/ Xeon Platinum 8275CL https://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Xeon/Intel-Xeon 8275CL.html https://www.cpumodel.com/cpu/intel-xeon-platinum-8275cl-24-cores-lga3647-server/ All of them are well over 20 cores while they're also able to support Optane DCPMM mentioned above, therefore PGGB should be able to reap the benefits then? 8272CL with 26 cores turned out to cost about $269 https://www.ebay.com/itm/144688611079 https://www.ebay.com/itm/175151808032 https://www.ebay.com/itm/385618513299 650 bucks (or best offer) for 8273CL with 28 cores https://www.ebay.com/itm/255969531554 Even cheaper here https://www.bargainhardware.co.uk/intel-xeon-platinum-8273cl-srf81-28-core-2-20ghz-lga3647-38-5mb-165w-cpu Finally it's just a matter of picking the right motherboard. ATX-sized ones would come with relatively weak VRMs and therefore maximum TDP for the CPU turned out to be 165W https://www.provantage.com/supermicro-mbd-x11spm-f~7SUPM5QR.htm https://www.acmemicro.com/Product/15828/Supermicro-X11SPM-F-Motherboard-Intel-Xeon-Scalable-Single-Socket-P- https://www.dihuni.com/product/supermicro-mbd-x11spm-f-o-x11spm-f-server-motherboard-intel-chipset-socket-p-lga-3647/ We could also go for E-ATX with beefier VRMs (up to 205W TDP) as well as 12 DIMM slots, prices should be just under 700 bucks at the moment https://www.ebay.com/itm/304932239836 https://www.ebay.com/itm/325924480668 https://www.ipcstore.com/supermicro-mbdx11spatfo-motherboard-intel-c621-lga-3647-socket-p-extended-atx-3010579 Other than that, check this out if we're interested in VRM mods since the kit would cost only 50 bucks https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/vrm-modify-icc_max-to-run-high-current-tdp-oem-processors.38686/ Previous releases of Supermicro BIOS https://drunkencat.net/misc/SupermicroBIOS.html Intel Xeon Platinum 8273CL Complete Info Guide https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/intel-xeon-platinum-8273cl-complete-info-guide.41479/ 512 GB Intel Optane DDR4-2666 RDIMM PMEM NMA1XBD512GQS https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/512-gb-intel-optane-ddr4-2666-rdimm-pmem-nma1xbd512gqs.40019/ Basically the caveat emptor here should be all about the longevity of used Optane DCPMM since they could have the potential to be REALLY worn out already https://seitics.de/files/ipmctl/ https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/512-gb-intel-optane-ddr4-2666-rdimm-pmem-nma1xbd512gqs.40019/page-3#post-379460 https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/512-gb-intel-optane-ddr4-2666-rdimm-pmem-nma1xbd512gqs.40019/page-4#post-388714 While Optane DCPMM might not be as good as the regular DDR4, it's still a relatively affordable way to boost the performance while getting such an impressive amount of persistent memory. Always remember to RTFM since we've gotta pay attention to the ratio between regular DDR4 and Optane DCPMM https://lenovopress.lenovo.com/lp1167.pdf https://lenovopress.lenovo.com/lp1192.pdf

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Some audiophiles here in Asia would add those cheap PCIe extenders between the PCIe slot and plain old Gigabit Ethernet PCIe card for the sake of providing isolation. Though they don't need the bandwidth for anything serious and therefore even PCIe x1 would work fine. Of course it's a different story for Solarflare https://www.xilinx.com/content/dam/xilinx/publications/product-briefs/xtremescale-x2522-product-brief.pdf#page=2 These extenders aren't meant to work over a long distance at all, therefore the Solarflare NIC would still stay pretty darn close to the chassis and then all that heat might still affect the overall temperature quite a bit https://www.thermaltake.com/tt-premium-pci-e-3-0-extender-300mm.html https://www.thermaltake.com/tt-premium-pci-e-4-0-extender-300mm.html https://www.thermaltake.com/tt-premium-pci-e-4-0-extender-200mm-with-90-degree-adapter.html Then we've got something else that's good for a much longer distance, though the entire package would cost "just a bit" too much https://adnacom.com/s31/ https://adnacom.com/product/s31-order/ Recently I read a little something about this https://liliputing.com/lenovo-could-ship-first-mainstream-laptops-with-an-oculink-port-in-2024-leaks/ I figured a new way to run an eGPU off M.2 using OCulink https://egpu.io/forums/custom-egpu-chassis/i-figured-a-new-way-to-run-an-egpu-off-m-2/ OCuLink: What It Is, Why You Need It, and Where To Get It https://egpu.io/forums/custom-egpu-chassis/oculink-what-it-is-why-you-need-it-and-where-to-get-it/#post-104553 So HP 1QL49AA should be this particular NIC https://www.hp.com/ie-en/products/accessories/product-details/18809667 If that were good enough for eGPU already, could we also try turning Solarflare NIC into an eNIC then? https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005277989277.html https://www.microsatacables.com/oculink-8i-dual-port-to-pcie-x16-slot-adapter-pcie-4-0 https://www.microsatacables.com/pcie-gen3-8-lane-to-oculink-sff-8612-8i-add-in-cardaic-ocu-1615-8l

Quite a few firmware updates were released so far, just wondering if you're getting the latest one installed on yours by any chance? https://web.archive.org/web/20231209060213id_/http://updates.ta-hifi.de/firmware/auto_download/DAC200/docs/versions_DAC200.txt Though it shouldn't be done by any end users as shown below, especially when it's a loaner unit https://audiophilestyle.com/forums/topic/63998-ta-dac-200/page/5/#comment-1223743 If the latest firmware were still no go for DSD1024, then it might have something to do with the ASIO driver. Not sure if you're running Linux or Windows? https://audiophilestyle.com/forums/topic/58164-building-a-diy-music-server/page/244/#comment-1274073 Regarding the SQ of DSD1024, IMHO it should be no surprise that heavy consumption of resources would result in higher temperature and therefore the SQ might suffer accordingly. Wouldn't that seem to be the double-edged sword nature of real-time upsampling then? https://audiophilestyle.com/forums/topic/69046-holo-cyan-2/page/5/#comment-1271952 Another owner of DAC200 also gave up for obvious reasons https://audiophilestyle.com/forums/topic/58164-building-a-diy-music-server/page/242/#comment-1272700 Thankfully we're gonna have offline upsampling very soon.

T+A DAC200 could only handle DSD512 successfully despite the specifications, while Holo May (most likely both Cyan 2 and Spring 3 should be good to go as well) went very well with both 44.1K and 48K families of DSD1024 so far http://erji.net/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=2250571 https://www.mobile01.com/topicdetail.php?f=348&t=5840425&p=89#87175623 Forget about the likes of Denafrips / Musician Audio since they're converting DSD to PCM https://6moons.com/audioreviews2/denafrips/2.html For the playback side of DSD1024, "Native DSD" is the only way to go and therefore "DoP" ain't getting us anywhere. In other words, macOS is out of the question https://community.roonlabs.com/t/native-dsd-playback-strategy-not-available-on-macos/210711/2 If we don't count any Android-based devices, then it's just a matter of choosing either Linux or Windows. The vast majority of Linux distros didn't come with a kernel that's able to support DSD1024 by default, therefore go for stuff like AudioLinux / Euphony OS etc. unless we wanna apply the following patches on our own http://erji.net/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=2283776 https://github.com/zhjie/zhjie_gentoo_repo/tree/master/sys-kernel After that, ALSA should have everything covered https://help.nativedsd.com/en/articles/6948867-playing-dsd-files-on-linux For Windows users, it's all about the ASIO driver and here's an example https://www.thesycon.de/eng/usb_audiodriver.shtml After that, some manufacturers are OK with supporting the 48K family but not the others https://audiophilestyle.com/forums/topic/19715-hq-player/page/470/#comment-855239 Finally it's just a matter of getting the right software player and we've got Column K (e.g. TuneBrowser) on this particular list https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rHcXP7PExksxZfkif3Rv2CT1Y_ESpNSv2b0nkKlBySk/edit#gid=1964212797 As always foobar2000 should be fine and dandy https://sourceforge.net/projects/sacddecoder/files/dsd_transcoder/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/sacddecoder/files/foo_input_sacd/ SounDevil http://soundevil.net/download/ http://erji.net/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=2252466&page=4#pid34304859 Personally I hate a specific piece of software with passion, therefore I never mentioned that.