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Sure, Tony, I agree - tweaking can be all-consuming & we got to make time for the music. I've only started to look at the Jplay streamer option - mainly because I was down in Fran's yesterday & at his prompting, we decided to try Jplay streamer. What a difference it made to the sound - just...

After a good bit of sorting out I have a second PC running now. I think I might be able to set it up as a headless system but not 100% sure yet. Success of a sort, but things like stability etc all need to be sorted out. Very trying at some stages, but it seems OK now. I'm using an old P4 desktop m...

Fran wrote:Power supplies are a big part of the performance.....

is it because my power supply and cpu is passively cooled?

a meet up is a great opportunity to evaluate the dacs and software, ill try to go although ill have little to offer

tried jplay on friends vista laptop without external dac, complete waste of time not worth comparing to anything although its a mediocre laptop seemed well able run jplay seamlessly with no other processes a good dac would go a long way. i tried to put win 8 on bootcamp on the macbook pro retina im ...

oh god im in trouble then max i can put in mines 32gb ram but 8 a nice number and then multiply by two for overkill factor but i am the sort to do fifty things at once then wonder why its gone horribly wrong. Apologises my sad sense of humour. I am using a laptop with 6 and aspire to 8 so I think y...

Just rushing off to work but surely you will need at least 48g ram for that pc! Welcome aboard Nigel you will have to give a few tips on pc builds. Hopefully cheaper ways of building zuma servers. Pearse is probably right at this time it looks like the age of the dac for the moment and jplay but th...

listened to ripped wav files today, couldn't believe this quality was on a cd ended up paying for the jplay its a good margin ahead of audivarna unfortunately as it gives me a reason to need a dedicated windows machine ill do some further listening with headphones and arcam rpac tomorrow Fascinatin...

listened to ripped wav files today, couldn't believe this quality was on a cd ended up paying for the jplay its a good margin ahead of audivarna unfortunately as it gives me a reason to need a dedicated windows machine
ill do some further listening with headphones and arcam rpac tomorrow

sometimes it feels like im splitting hairs but theres a definite advantage with jplay as far as sound goes, i was hoping there'd be less in the difference, audivarnas far more user friendly and plays all sorts of formats. what format is preferable to feed jplay with I've got an obsession with pc bui...