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Hi everybody, I need a little help from you guys. I need an audiophile operating system that runs from usb key, with about 4gb or less, and that is compatible with usb dac and usb hdd and that can be controlled by an android smartphone. Voyage is too annoying and daphile doesn't work. Any other suggestion? The best thing would be something like a portable foobar2000. Thanks.

I personally disagree about your last sentence...there are tons of technical sheets about how the upsampling improves the sound, it obviously depends on the quality of it, and how the NOS tech is not that good and before buying I want to be sure at least on the tech side. This doesn't mean that something technically good it is also practically, but I listened to a NOS dac and I didn't like it. Did you do the upsampling with a pc appropriately tweaked for audio use? Because that would do a big difference. However, thanks for your opinion.

Hi everybody, I'm considering to build on my own a music server with linux voyage. One of the problems that I am bothering now is: where to upsample? Let's see the problem. I read all the cics documents about the upsampling and it really convinced me about the utility of it, BUT this would mean that I would have to use a cmp2 compliant server, with intel i3 etc etc, and it gets expensive, about 1000€, not that much, but for a student it's like 1 billion dollar. A cheaper solution would consist in using a alix board, designed for linux voyage, but I would need a good dac for the upsampling, so all the money would go there. So here is my question: which one do you think is better?: - use a cpu for the upsampling plus soundcard, in order to have I/V conversion - use a digital transport (alix and voyage) plus a powerful dac? My opinion is that a cpu would be so much better because you could choose the type of upsampling (src, sox) and other stuff, BUT it's also true that a standalone dac has a chip completely dedicated to do that...so actuallly I haven't got an answer.