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Re: Build a dedicated Audio PC
Posted: Fri Jul 05, 2013 2:33 pm
by Derek
I think you may have found the problem OK
I’ll have a hammer handy for next time.
Keep the Faith
Re: Build a dedicated Audio PC
Posted: Fri Jul 05, 2013 4:16 pm
by nige2000
Is the hammer for me or the equipment?
Re: Build a dedicated Audio PC
Posted: Fri Jul 05, 2013 4:58 pm
by Derek
Re: Build a dedicated Audio PC
Posted: Fri Jul 05, 2013 5:53 pm
by Fran
Heh!!
FWIW, I had heard the core server build just a week or so before and it was stunning. Miles better than my W8 zuma build and certainly well ahead of CDP.
Just one of those sh!&&y cases where of something can go wrong, it will.
Fran
Re: Build a dedicated Audio PC
Posted: Sun Jul 07, 2013 1:29 pm
by tony
see post on play forum from kyrill.now the sleeping with energisers is a level beyond I would be prepared to put in print the advice is sound and well grounded. the image of Ivor or myself sleeping with e sorbs and then reporting it improved the sq would possibly be commercial armageddom for eist audio. I think Fran might pay to avoid that type of endorsement.
Re: Build a dedicated Audio PC
Posted: Sun Jul 07, 2013 1:49 pm
by Ivor
tony wrote: the image of Ivor or myself sleeping with e sorbs and then reporting it improved the sq would possibly be commercial armageddom for eist audio.
I have tried 4 E Sorbs under the legs of my bed and had the best nights sleep in years! My snoring had rich plummy bass notes, was sibilance free and possessed a wonderfully wide and realistic soundstage. Next weekend I will be trying a Townshend seismic sink under my pillow.
Re: Build a dedicated Audio PC
Posted: Sun Jul 07, 2013 4:50 pm
by nige2000
Ivor wrote:tony wrote: the image of Ivor or myself sleeping with e sorbs and then reporting it improved the sq would possibly be commercial armageddom for eist audio.
I have tried 4 E Sorbs under the legs of my bed and had the best nights sleep in years! My snoring had rich plummy bass notes, was sibilance free and possessed a wonderfully wide and realistic soundstage. Next weekend I will be trying a Townshend seismic sink under my pillow.
How are they affecting your performance?
Re: Build a dedicated Audio PC
Posted: Sun Jul 07, 2013 4:53 pm
by Ivor
nige2000 wrote:Ivor wrote:tony wrote: the image of Ivor or myself sleeping with e sorbs and then reporting it improved the sq would possibly be commercial armageddom for eist audio.
I have tried 4 E Sorbs under the legs of my bed and had the best nights sleep in years! My snoring had rich plummy bass notes, was sibilance free and possessed a wonderfully wide and realistic soundstage. Next weekend I will be trying a Townshend seismic sink under my pillow.
How are they affecting your performance?
Considerably less vibration.
Re: Build a dedicated Audio PC
Posted: Mon Jul 08, 2013 11:42 pm
by nige2000
If anyones still interested in my Antics
Right I got a couple of hours for messing around and I had got two 5 amp power supplies over the weekend so I could retire the trilinear supply and hopefully finish and tidy up my asus build and leave it all sort of fool proof
As it happened I opened a can of worms
As substituting in the 5 amp supplies actually lowered sq!!!
So it was obvious to me that there was more to power supplies than just putting a adequate capacity supply ino the system and away you go.
So I thought if the 5 amps make sq worse could I find anything that would make it better
I have a damn fine mess going on there's parts everywhere
I have tried all sorts of combinations and ATM
SQ favours the
7 amp linear to pico psu
One line of the trilinear to CPU
One 5 amp linear via voltage regulator to USB (which for some reason works better than a line on the trilinear, go figure)
All this raised a substantial lift in sq
I've got a few things left in the pipeline but we will see as
Not everything goes according to plan
Anyone else working on sq improvement still?
Nige
Re: Build a dedicated Audio PC
Posted: Tue Jul 09, 2013 4:39 pm
by jkeny
I know that feeling, Nige - I have had a number of the same experiences at demos on my knees disconnecting/reconnecting wires, rebooting PCs, with sweat running down my brow while others hid behind the nearest couch fearing an immanent explosion :)
It's tough being a pioneer :)