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Upsamplers, DACs, jitter, shakes and analogue withdrawals, this is it.

RE: Are CD Players Even Relevant Anymore?

It's an Intel Skylake generation i5 with 2 memory slots, an m.2 SSD slot and a cage for a 2.5" 7mm thickness SATA drive.

It does have a fan but changing to a quiet fan operation profile in the Biosonly takes a couple of seconds. With that setting, the fan runs very rarely in normal use and when it does, I am not conscious of it for awhile. A simpler, easier, cheaper and more mainstream solution than putting a NUC board into a fanless case.

The rest of the spec:

- 2 by 8GByte ram kit
- Samsung 1 TB m.2 SSD
- Windows 10 Pro (OEM)

I chose an m.2 SSD to leave the SATA drive position open for more storage if needed. However, music and photos are now on a QNap NAS so I may never need more than 1TB of storage.

I carried over a Dell 24" monitor, a logitech wireless keyboard and mouse and an Audioengine AW1 wireless DAC.

Performance is quite snappy. I am not conscious of any lags relative to the previous Sandy Bridge i5 desktop with SSD boot drive.

I had intended to replace the dedicated MusicPC with a JRiver Id (atom based Intel NUC with Linux and JRiver installed.) However, I decided to try moving the MusicPC function onto my personal NUC. I haven't found any downside in terms of sound quality or functionality.

I am well into replacing all the computer and audio gear. So far I've replaced the WiFi router/firewall, 2 DACs, 2 PCs and a bunch of cables of various sorts. Parts for my wife's NUC are arriving today so I'll replace her desktop next week.

Still to be replaced: powered speakers in our home office, active 3 way speakers in our library and the TV.

I've been interested in good audio for about 50 years and am happy to do my own research and thinking. Quite different choices now from those I made ~10 years ago when I first went to computer audio.

my blog: http://carsmusicandnature.blogspot.com/


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