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Ken Moreland wrote:Nige, played this morning and the B***ard wouldn't play properly. Not at all on Hires and stopping on 16bit. I switched back to USB wireless from cable and everything was fine. Currently using US=170 on RC15a. The sound quality is fine.
I ran the little DPLatency check program http://www.thesycon.de/deu/latency_check.shtml on the 2pc's and found that the latency was worse on the AudioPC with lovely Intel SSD and PPA Studio SATA cable etc than the POS Meath CoCo scrap Streamer PC.
KM

nige2000 wrote:right im on jplay 5.1 rc15a

has the gap in quality between 1pc and 2pc streaming disappeared? or am i doing something horribly wrong? here's to hoping!!!

EDIT: AFTER A BIT OF LISTENING STREAMING BETWEEN PCS STILL HAS THE ADVANTAGE BUT THE GAP IS CLOSING

still able to play at ultrasize 28 but don't think it sounds at its best there, im playing at over 110 but get confused after that (ultrasize 110-170)
has anyone found their sweet spot yet on ultrasize?

nige2000 wrote: please don't leave the evaluations up to me, only in the audio game a few months
i didnt do a whole lot of listening on it either, couple of tracks, audivarna sounds good but when you switch back to jplay you realize audivarna just is not at the same level

but would suggest everyone on mac trial jplay, to me there's a big difference in soundstage

also think the windows to go usb stick is adding more quality over interal ssd what do you think john?

"Processor Scheduling - choose how to allocate processor resources - for best performance of:
- programs
- background services"

jkeny wrote:

nige2000 wrote: please don't leave the evaluations up to me, only in the audio game a few months
i didnt do a whole lot of listening on it either, couple of tracks, audivarna sounds good but when you switch back to jplay you realize audivarna just is not at the same level

Your impressions are as valuable as anybody else's - trust your ears

but would suggest everyone on mac trial jplay, to me there's a big difference in soundstage

also think the windows to go usb stick is adding more quality over interal ssd what do you think john?

I just made a Win8-to-Go stick (I had re-used this stick for other reasons).

Anyway, I also had a Intel NUC delivered today (very sexy & neat little device - leaves MacMini in the shade :)) but no SSD so I wanted to see if I could boot solely from a USB stick without having a disk installed. I removed the HDD from my netbook & booted it from the USB stick with no problem. I'm currently posting this using it. Next will be to use it to boot my NUC - I'll audition JPLAY RC15 when I have it all setup & check the sound quality of SSD Vs USB stick

When I boot it this way (without HDD) I get a new dialog window - It's because there is no paging file on disk - I think read somewhere not to use any paging file?
The other part of the dialogue window is:

"Processor Scheduling - choose how to allocate processor resources - for best performance of:
- programs
- background services"

I set it for best performance of services. What do you think is best for Jplay program or services? I'm not sure, my feeling is services

nige2000 wrote: i think the nuc will work out fine

i have no idea about the processor scheduling, never came across it before

nuc should boot fine with no hard drive in it only windows to go ive been running my i3 picu psu bulid that way with no issues and works as good as my i7 silent build,
although the fans in the i3 bug me as there another factor that may effect sound and i think it has a small effect on the quality but its well fit to play.

ill have my streacom case on tuesday,

picu psu vs standard atx powersupply ill be trying out both, but do you think there will be much in the difference

jkeny wrote:

nige2000 wrote: i think the nuc will work out fine

i have no idea about the processor scheduling, never came across it before

I think this
'Processor Scheduling" dialogue box appears because there is no paging file automatically set-up when using Win-to-go & that is where the paging allocation choice appears

nuc should boot fine with no hard drive in it only windows to go ive been running my i3 picu psu bulid that way with no issues and works as good as my i7 silent build,
although the fans in the i3 bug me as there another factor that may effect sound and i think it has a small effect on the quality but its well fit to play.

Yea, first thing I did when I got the NUC was take it apart to remove the fan & heatsink to check for & apply new thermal paste. Glad I did, it was ll dried up & I reckon not making good thermal contact. Re-applied new paste which hopefully will keep the fan low. Next up will be looking at the options for powering this fan externally.

ill have my streacom case on tuesday,

picu psu vs standard atx powersupply ill be trying out both, but do you think there will be much in the difference

I haven't tried this yet myself - my experiments didn't work out but Fran says it makes a difference

nige2000 wrote: its only something like 17 watts aint it, so shouldnt be hard to cool. maybe a modded heatsink would do it