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Posted by Gordon Rankin (M) on May 19, 2008 at 07:52:15

In Reply to: RE: 20 Minute Build for Memory Player Nirvana posted by Gordon Rankin on May 16, 2008 at 07:57:07

Guys,

A dealer asked why I think this works better and I said....

Ok let's look at how we preceive audio reproduction. I feel that there is a curve, let's say exponetial in nature. When we derive a system that is say 90% accurate we say ok that's pretty good. To achieve say 3% more we find that spending almost 3x the amount is necessary.

In that regard do something like this may add that silly little 1% over a similar system.

Or maybe it is because it is sooo freaken cool.

No it does sound better...

A friend of mine did this... he took out his DVD drive in his MacBook pro and put in a 320GB hd. He then swapped out the main drive for a 32GB drive for the OS. He puts his library in the 320GB only partial as he has 3T full now and then uses his Silver Crimson into the MacBook Pro and then into the rest of his system (Shindo pre and new 80W amp-DeVore SilverBacks).

Thanks
Gordon
J. Gordon Rankin

• RE: Further Thoughts - endust4237 14:40:35 05/20/08 (0)
  In Reply to: RE: Further Thoughts posted by Gordon Rankin on May 19, 2008 at 07:52:15

  I have an 8GB Kingston Datatraveller 400 USB flash drive where OS X Leopard running iTunes and not much else on my Macbook from the flash drive. In a different room I have a Mac Pro as a server with some 6 TB storage for some 6000 CD and quite a lot 96k/24bit and 128x DSD files, mainly digitized from LP, but few original high-res recordings as well.
  
  This way playing through the Ethernet between the server and the flash booted Macbook, I have no moving parts and the majority of the bits played from the 2 GB ram of the MB. The intetrnal 120 GB HD is unmounted of course, I do not need it, but you can use it this to store your music only.
  
  Like it much better than playing on the ordinary way. I have the Altmann Attraction DAC. Fun to see how the cache is is filled on the flash memory, as the led is blinking for a very short time in every few minutes.
  
  

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