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RE: Snap Crackle and Pop

Posted by Tony Lauck (A) on April 11, 2014 at 09:49:20

In Reply to: RE: Snap Crackle and Pop posted by Bob_C on April 11, 2014 at 08:47:24:

At a certain point where there are no more clicks and pops the question comes whether more tuning should be attempted. At some point, one reaches the point of diminishing returns. Note that as clicks and pops become rarer and rarer it becomes more and more time consuming to find and change proposed tweaks that might be the cause. So if one is following the "start big" diagnostic strategy, one has to stop at some point. Of course if one is also tuning for improved sound quality that is another reason to keep on going, but this is also time consuming, because it may take a lot of listening time to see whether a change is beneficial.

The other approach is to "start small" with an absolutely minimal system that includes the minimum operating system that runs well enough so that you can tweak it, and than add functions needed to run the audio software, the volume holding the music library and the audio interface connecting to the DAC. This is a completely valid approach. Indeed, this is the "purist" approach. Were I to do it, I would probably start with a purpose built operating system that is stripped down totally, something like Arch Linux. That way I would have the potential advantage of being able to read the source code and understand what is going on. This is probably the fastest way to get excellent results if one has the necessary experience with the chosen software, but I haven't tried this yet because I am still a "newbie" when it comes to various Linux distros and lack the facility that I had with navigating via command line, such as I did in the 1960's with various PDP-10 operating systems.


Tony Lauck

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