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thanks for adding too the mix. Looking forward too read your experience with the SSD.

Hi Ryelands,

* Just too be sure I understand everything correctly (I’m not a native English speaker):

In your cMP^2 setup you use a 2,5” HDD with dedicated PSU with the OS + music files stored on it.
You than plugin a USB flash drive, you copy some music files onto that USB flash drive and you play the music files from that USB flash drive.
The result is: the files played from the USB drive sound better than when the same files are played from the HDD.

Hmm well yes…. That’s remarkable.

I haven’t tried that, but I still have the Samsung HDD lying around too plug it back in and see if I can replicate the phenomenon.

* On sound quality and spinning HDD.
If after 3 minutes the HDD spins down, I don’t hear any sound quality differences in my cMP setup.
Do you hear sound quality differences?

In my setup, I just swap the HDD out and the SSD in place.
So: same power supply situation, same sata port, same sata cable.
Just the fact that there is a HDD connected (with dedicated power supply through a ‘dirty’ picoPSU 150 XT) results in sound quality degradation (compared too a SSD).
It doesn’t matter if the HDD is spinning or not.

* On strange behaviour from FLAC files in cPlay.
I noticed some more strange behaviour when cPlay handles flac-files.
Sometimes cPlay also doesn’t list all the individual tracks in a flac-file.
Though when using Foobar on the same flac file, Foobar is listing these individual tracks.
I haven’t looked closely into these differences between foobar and cPlay because I convert flac files back too wav-files.
But it seems Foobar does a better job handling flac files.
Soo may be cPlay needs ‘a closer look under the hood’ too see if it’s handles flac files correctly.


* I’m looking forward too hear from your experience with implementing that little SSD in your setup.

Mark


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