Thank you Cno. I know it cost as much as a remote for some gear but I like the challange. There's not that much fun saying here's £10k... please, make it sound good. Anyone can do it. Well, anyone who has £10k to spend.CnoEvil said:Truly impressive Dicking About. You have my admiration. *good*
Cheers, Doug. Much appreciatedDougK said:Very impressive all round, I applaud you sir *clapping*
So now the obvious next step is to compare your built in a day, off the shelf streamer to say innous zennith top of the range for a blind test.insider9 said:However I have been using USB not long after I posted the review. Wanted to check what was actually happening.
I'll write a retraction and an explanation on that thread as it will be more relevant there.
Maybe some common sense is coming back to the forum.insider9 said:Yes, comparison to Innuos would be welcome. But have something else and more exciting planed for foreseeable future.
See, I don't write about many of my experiments just the more significant and less geeky ones.
nice, all looking sweetinsider9 said:I've been running stress test this morning on the APU
Idle temp - 46C Stress tested (with Stress) all cores: - after 10 minutes - 64.5C - after 20 more minutes - 64.5C
As you can see these are safe and stable temps and quite impressive for small case with not one fan.
Check out their website, it works on various OS.Blacksabbath25 said:Nice job mate !
Can you use windows by any chance as I have a copy of windows 7 doing nothing ?
thanks for that yes it works with windows 7 but would it be a issue when windows stops supporting windows 7 in a couple of years ?Q5 said:Check out their website, it works on various OS.Blacksabbath25 said:Nice job mate !
Can you use windows by any chance as I have a copy of windows 7 doing nothing ?
https://roonlabs.com/
I use it myself.
I can see all the processes. In idle it uses 708Mb of RAM and has hardly any CPU use. There is literally nothing I can switch of that's unrelated. It's as bare as it gets. You don't get that with Windows.ellisdj said:you will want to isolate the activity on the main used core to Roon only and push eveything else to the others.
no idea how you do that in Linux
Thanks Sabbath. And thanks for the offer but I really don't want Windows. Not only I belive it sounds worse and is worse for audio but the hardware I picked was not meant for Windows. What I have now works flawlessly and is already optimised. Windows would be a mine field to get tweaked not to mention it has much larger hardware expectations so I'd have to upgrade the streamer I just built.Blacksabbath25 said:Nice job mate !
Can you use windows by any chance as I have a copy of windows 7 doing nothing ?
I was looking up that j5005 processor. And it is shown as a Intel pentium processor. Is this different from the normal i5 and i7 processors I hear more commonly about. Can I supplant this processor with an i5 for instance without needing an additional fan.insider9 said:I've been observing core utilisation with Htop and Roon is very well behaved. It can spike to 100% on one core at the begining of the track but settles with DSD64 (plus resampling and DSP) at circa 30% with little activity on other cores. When analysing if you allow it to use all cores it will go up to 100% however if you decide to play anything it will adjust accordingly so performance isn't affected. I'm using under about 50% of RAM whatever operation I've tried. Tops out at 48.7%.
With DSD256 played (again with resampling and DSP) Roon shows 1.2-1.3x speed. It did start playback after around 4 seconds but did play gapless. Just to make you realise what were talking about the file is 840MB for 4 minute 55 seconds *shok* Htop shows one core being utilised over 90% once again with little happening in other cores. This would mean that what I read about Roon is true and having stronger single core performance woul be better than many slowe cores. For anyone wanting to do a lot of resampling and heavy lifting I'd suggest a faster single core performance in which case J5005 would do very well.
that's not what I mean - you want just 1 core for the audio service with nothing else using it. it doesn't matter on the usage (less is usually better as you know) it's the core isolation that's importantinsider9 said:I can see all the processes. In idle it uses 708Mb of RAM and has hardly any CPU use. There is literally nothing I can switch of that's unrelated. It's as bare as it gets. You don't get that with Windows.ellisdj said:you will want to isolate the activity on the main used core to Roon only and push eveything else to the others.
no idea how you do that in Linux
Thanks Sabbath. And thanks for the offer but I really don't want Windows. Not only I belive it sounds worse and is worse for audio but the hardware I picked was not meant for Windows. What I have now works flawlessly and is already optimised. Windows would be a mine field to get tweaked not to mention it has much larger hardware expectations so I'd have to upgrade the streamer I just built.Blacksabbath25 said:Nice job mate !
Can you use windows by any chance as I have a copy of windows 7 doing nothing ?