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  1. It must be my phone. The noise that I periodically hear overtop the music is exactly the sound of the "Cell phone interference sound effect" in the above post. Wow! Thank you, Skeptic. JRiver, I appreciate you chiming in, too. You have your own forum to moderate. Thanks. I will keep my phone further from the electronics and see if that is the medicine. Thank you very much. Brent
  2. I have a home office that includes a work dedicated laptop and a music dedicated laptop - both Windows 7. The music laptop uses MC19 and is part of a headphone-only rig. Both laptops are connect by CAT6a shielded Ethernet cable to a Netgear router via a switch. Music files are on a NAS connected to the router via the switch as well. My office phone is VOIP - again connected to the router via CAT6a shielded. Periodically, a low level burst of noise (not loud; usually barely audible) comes thru the headphones if I am listening to music or thru my VOIP work phone "ear piece". It lasts 8 - 10 seconds and then vanishes. I can go days with no noise and then one day the noise will return. I have moved to all CAT 6a shield Ethernet cable in my office; I inserted a SB Touch in place of the laptop; had my DAC and headphone amp looked at; etc. Nothing - noise still comes and goes. Clearly more a nuisance more than anything, but would like to eliminate it. I am considering springing for one of these: LAN-Isolator RLI-1?ACOUSTIC REVIVE Any advice? Thanks.
  3. Spoke with pre-sales support at Netgear. I can definitely use a four bay NAS and insert three HDs: one HD for the original FLAC files that serves as a networked library and the second and third HDs that serves as a mirrored pair for back-up. Thanks for all the input.
  4. Thaks, John. What I am going to explore is a four bay NAS to see if I can use one HD for "original files" to use as my library for JRiver and LMS, and two HDs for a mirrored back-up. In this arrangement, if feasible, I would have one NAS with three HDs. Brent
  5. Thanks, John. We currently have similar arrangements. My laptop HD is your "first copy" drive on your desk top. My NAS - a two HD Netgear product that mirrors the data - is my back-up. I would like to continue to back-up on a mirrored NAS, but also have my "first copy" HD not be the laptop HD, but a NAS. Brent
  6. I currently have my FLAC files on a dedicated, networked laptop with 1TB hard drive. All files are back-up'd to a mirror NAS that also serves as a back-up for all my business and our family data. FYI - the business files are also back-up'd on the cloud. For one room, the laptop runs JRiver USB out to a headphone set-up. For my big rig listening area in the basement, the laptop HD is networked via Cat6 feeding a SB Touch. I would like to (1) move the FLAC files to a NAS rather than have the laptop HD serving as my "NAS", so to speak, thus the laptop only runs the OS, JRiver and Logitech Media Server; and (2) back-up my FLAC files separately from the business/family NAS back-up. Question: If I use a mirror two bay NAS as my FLAC network library, is that sufficinent? In this two HD arrangement, this NAS is both the library and the mirror. Or is is smarter to have three HDs in the NAS - play from one and mirror back-up to the other two? Any reaction, including I am over thinking this, is appreciated. Brent
  7. Thanks for all the responses. I run a W4S DAC2. I like the idea of just "moving" the office laptop to the basement and trying it out. I have a couple of motivators: 1. With SB Touch soon to be phased out, the idea of moving to one platform that is to a degree HW neutral is attractive; 2. I find JRiver more robust for a few reasons, among them WAPSI Event Out and the ability to upsample with JRiver using the computer's horsepower At this point, I will take the office laptop to the basement and "check it out". I likely will be replacing my current business laptop (I own a small consulting firm) in the next year, so I will have decent, fairly quiet laptop available that with a few mods (SSD, re-install OS, remove unnecessary SW, etc.) can be dedicated to and permanently placed in the basement if I want to go that direction. Again, thanks - learned a ton.
  8. Thanks for the reply. I do use JRemote on an iPod 4G for my laptop in the office headphone set-up and love it. To be clear for me, DLNA renderers such as manufactured by Netgear, D Link and WD would not be appropriate for my use - I need to think laptop or headless mini-PC, correct?
  9. I am curious as to alternatives to my existing set-up. In my home office, I have a headphone only set-up consistenting of a dedicated laptop with MC17 that feeds my DAC via USB. Music is stored on a mirror NAS. For my big rig in my basement listening area, I use a SB Touch that feeds a DAC via coaxial - soon to try the USB out of the SB Touch. The SB Touch is connected to the network via ethernet connection and Logitech Media Server SW is installed on the laptop upstairs in the office - the same laptop that has MC17. I control everything with iPeng on an iPod 4G. My DACs do not have an ethernet connection and I am not intersted in purchasing one that does, such as PS Audio. All the above works great. Question: if I wanted to eliminate the SB Touch, move away from that platform and use MC17 in the big rig, what are my options? Would I need another laptop? A headless mini-computer? Other? Thanks.
  10. I am in the market for a "new" to me DAC. I had been using a Stello DA100 Signature in my "big rig" fed by a SB Touch networked to a NAS. I recently "tried" my DA100 Sig in my home office head phone rig in place of a DAC Magic. Well, I can't go back and the DA100 Sig has a permanent place in my home office. I need to replace the DA100 Sig. I am looking at a Wyred 4 Sound DAC2 (approx $1,495), an AudioGD Ref7.1($2k) and a Audio Research DAC7 (I can find used for $2,100). I am sure you have thoughts on my short list and on other DACs in a budget that is $2k tops used. Thank you.
  11. Hi. First post here, though I have learned a ton reading the great posts and responses. Here's my office set-up for head phone listening: Dedicated Windows 7 laptop with JRiver MC17 out via USB into Stello U2 out via I2S into Stello DA100 Signature. The DA100 Signature upsamples to 24/96 and 24/192. The JRiver MC 17 has been meticulously set-up using the postings here. I have tried upsampling using the JRiver MC17 software and turning off the upsampling on the DA100. I have then reversed it, sending the digital out from JRiver in its native format and upsampling with the Stello DA100 Signature. Boy, to my ears, the Stello provides a richer, smoother listening experience with deeper, tigher bass. The highs are a tad cleaner with more sparkle. No dis on the JRiver MC17 - great product. Why is this? Is SW upsampling not as effective as that done in the HW? I am new to computer audio and a bit surprised.
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