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RE: cd-player seems to win over CMP

Mobo is Atom-based Asroch AD525PV3. I tried this, because GA-H55M-USB3 was not satisfying SQ-wise.
See my post The Singing Atom:
http://www.audioasylum.com/forums/pcaudio/messages/10/100814.html

Coax/optical
- when testing, only one item is connected (cdp or cmp2)
- on both cdp and cmp2 optical sounds better
- i connect cdp via coax for convenience: optical cable is very tight, not easy to disconnetc; coax (BNC) easy to disconnect.

OS/box
The cmp2 is a cmp2 machine (cmp + cplay).
OS is small nLite-install as per Junaid/Rick. Networking possible (but in bios disabled, yet). AWE, mem=256, minlogon. Slimming beyond nLite not yet done. Later i'll try this and report.
Maybe if i try this, and the other reg-slimming and mermaids, the cmp2 will win (i hope so). Next weeks i'll be too busy with other things (work). If i can find the time i also want to try Alix 1D, i think we must try to slim OS ánd hardware.
A cd-player has very little hardware... and a tiny OS...

Upsampling
The Benchmark DAC1 upsamples to 176.4 KHz. The sound is best when CMP2 upsamples to 88.2 and then the dac upsamples to 176.4


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  • RE: cd-player seems to win over CMP - Douwe01nl 03:33:54 01/08/12 (0)

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