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RE: Update v0.3: The Art of building Computer Transports

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Some answers:

I can't support very much on any MS related questions. I left MS-OS behind me 10 month ago (after fiddling around with it as you're doing it right now).
I know there is a tool for setting latencies under MS. You need to google it. If you have PCI-E forget it anyhow.

# What's better?

It depends as usual. A standard Linux setup is not better compared to e.g. Vista and XX_HE setup - Linux needs quite some tweaking that's for sure.
If you follow the link I posted earlier and the thread " Linux Audio the way to go" ( very much at the end) you'll find a small
subjective review about an A/B testing of XXHighEnd and my Linux setup and my own brutefir-Player. You'll also find some comments about it in the BD-design forum. ( Right after that particular meeting I introduced the Secret Rabbit Code upsampler which substantially improved the situation. Today I am quite confident that there is nothing better out there than my Linux setup - in terms of feeding a USB-DAC based on a PCM270X chip such as the DDDAC!!!!)

Linux gives you all kind of options:
E.g.
I wrote my own temperature control and switch all my fans off during playback.
I can also switch off my screen and graphic card as well as the HDD off during playback.
MY system stays pretty cool all the time. Try that under Windows! ;)

I actually don't even start X-Windows any longer. Any kind of Windows is a performance killer. I run the player now from a character based terminal.

If you like tweaking the OS, as you obviously do, you'll love Linux ( of course after you got to know how Unix works).

Cheers







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