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In Reply to: RE: Acoustic noise is the problem... Not electrical... posted by Archimago on August 29, 2016 at 10:40:14
I tend to agree with some of what you said.
I posted mainly for our audiophile population that have strong religious convictions about hard disks and computers not belonging in the listening room. They should have a closer look inside their very high-end 'audiophile grade' music servers to see what they consist of.
I gave two examples in my post of music servers that contain industry standard mini-ITX computer motherboard running the Linux OS, and some that may also include hard disk drives.
Before the days of SSDs I ran nearly inaudible 5400 rpm 2.5" laptop style disk drives. That coupled with 'memory play' meant that the disk drives didn't 'seek' during music playback.
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You forget one thing.
Everything you go for is gonna be a compromise.
A well done local playback solution won't necessarily be worse than a bad network solution.
Network related load and network related distortions need to be compared to distortions caused by local HDD/SSD.
This all is not black or white. And it's basically all about effort.
IMO it requires much less effort to build a quality, no-frill, headless,
disc-less streaming client.
Before you agree to anything Archimago is saying (basically all systems sound equal, noise and other distortions doesn't have impact because he can't measure them and bits are bits - everything is a hype ), I'd suggest to start reading stuff about one of his favorite measurement tools to get the picture:
http://nwavguy.blogspot.de/2011/02/rightmark-audio-analyzer-rmaa.html
Enjoy.
I cautiously said that I agree with some of what Archimago said and I understand the limitations of measurements when the measuring tools lack the resolution to arrive at meaningful conclusions, not to mention methodical setup and repeatability.
And yes, nothing is perfect.
IMO it requires much less effort to build a quality, no-frill, headless,
disc-less streaming client.
Probably but most people don't start out that way because you need a PC/Mac/Server/NAS (a computer) to begin with in order to rip and 'serve' to the client. And many people have more than one PC/Mac lying around to play with. I have several and have gotten excellent results going from the computer direct to DAC with a few tweaks along the way.
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