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There is now a computer sitting in my hifi rack!
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2016 12:59 am
by Sloop John B
And now for something completely different........
I've gone from a SBT into a Naim nDAC to a Intel NUC in a silent PC casing sending quite stupendous audio data down a QED USB cable into a Hugo TT.
The data is controlled by the wonderful Roon app which sends it to HQ Player which upsamples it to 384 kHz and apples a poly-sinc-short- mp filter and then sends this on to a DAC that after 5 days continuous shuffle is beginning to live up to its reputation.
Quite different to the interface I saw in Tony's but there's more than one way to skin a cat!
I would hope to get rid of the NUC from the rack if the microRendu lives up to the hype, but until then I can post in the CA section!
SJB
Re: There is now a computer sitting in my hifi rack!
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2016 8:59 am
by nige2000
Sloop John B wrote:
Quite different to the interface I saw in Tony's but there's more than one way to skin a cat!
I would hope to get rid of the NUC from the rack if the microRendu lives up to the hype, but until then I can post in the CA section!
SJB
its not real CA
till your overly obsessive and make playback really inconvenient;)
is there really a benefit in upsampling to the 3xx khz?
the urendu is still a computer as is lots of stuff so you can still post away :)
Re: There is now a computer sitting in my hifi rack!
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2016 10:13 am
by Diapason
It's not computer audio if you can actually play a selection of music or indeed an entire album without tinkering. It's only computer audio if you're playing one Oscar Peterson track over and over and looking at a sea of crocodile clips.
I'm kidding, I'm kidding!!
Kinda.
Re: There is now a computer sitting in my hifi rack!
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2016 10:14 am
by Sloop John B
nige2000 wrote:
is there really a benefit in upsampling to the 3xx khz?
It makes a nice big blue light on the Hugo shine!
SJB
Re: There is now a computer sitting in my hifi rack!
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2016 10:17 am
by Diapason
Sloop John B wrote:
It makes a nice big blue light on the Hugo shine!
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Re: There is now a computer sitting in my hifi rack!
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2016 10:57 am
by nige2000
Diapason wrote:It's not computer audio if you can actually play a selection of music or indeed an entire album without tinkering. It's only computer audio if you're playing one Oscar Peterson track over and over and looking at a sea of crocodile clips.
I'm kidding, I'm kidding!!
Kinda.
sounds about right
its the neverending testing phase
someday ill surprise everyone and finish something and put it in a box
Re: There is now a computer sitting in my hifi rack!
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2016 11:01 am
by nige2000
Sloop John B wrote:nige2000 wrote:
is there really a benefit in upsampling to the 3xx khz?
It makes a nice big blue light on the Hugo shine!
SJB
upsampling to your favourite colour
thats a new one
Re: There is now a computer sitting in my hifi rack!
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2016 11:03 am
by Diapason
nige2000 wrote:
someday ill surprise everyone and finish something and put it in a box
Careful now. That's how businesses start!
Re: There is now a computer sitting in my hifi rack!
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2016 2:12 pm
by jrling
It's not computer audio if you can actually play a selection of music or indeed an entire album without tinkering. It's only computer audio if you're playing one Oscar Peterson track over and over and looking at a sea of crocodile clips.
You haven't mentioned the NASA Countdown sequence of switching on the battery PSUs for each rail IN THE CORRECT ORDER to fire it up?! Not to mention the smoke arising when you don't get the order right.
So don't put it in a wooden box.