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Ultimate Audio Playback / Music Storage and convenient playback / Re: Which Tablet
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on: June 03, 2012, 01:03:47 pm
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the only question you need to answer is if they might be a little larger than you need if it's main function is just to control XXHE.
If you enjoy reading you will find the smaller sizes are better as ebook readers also.
Cheers,
Russ
Thanks Russ, If I only spend, let´s say around 200€ I´d use it only as XX remote but if I think around 400€ or more I´d like to use it also for reading or browsing the web. I think that I´d rather the latter option. Regards, Juan
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Ultimate Audio Playback / Music Storage and convenient playback / Re: Which Tablet
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on: June 03, 2012, 11:48:32 am
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I´m in the same situation as Gerard, I´ll get the dongles before the tablet, I never have had any tablet before so any advise from the most experienced or from the ones who understand better the XX needs will be very welcome.
So far the two candidates that I had on mind were the iPad and the Eee Pad Transformer Prime TF201...
Best regards, Juan
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Ultimate Audio Playback / Playback Tweaks and Source related subjects / Re: Review of Nicks Tweeks
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on: May 28, 2012, 10:54:57 pm
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I am getting superb sound from clock res of 5 ms and NOS buffer size of 4ms eg this approach really changes things. Best Nick.
Hi Nick I´ve changed the clock res from 15ms to 5ms and the NOS buffer size from 8ms to 4ms. The improvement is very noticeable, the sound is richer, the bass is firmer and deeper and there are more harmonics. Another step forward in my system although I can´t use yet all of the points in the tweeks list. Thanks again, Juan
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Ultimate Audio Playback / Playback Tweaks and Source related subjects / Re: HOW I´VE BUILT MY NEW PC FOR XXHIGHEND AND WHY I´VE CHOSEN THE COMPONENTS
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on: May 18, 2012, 01:47:01 pm
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Hi Brian,
If the problem is to avoid noise I´d go for the configuration I have in my Sileo 550 case with a Be Quite! 730w psu in the top of the case, I could use also the Corsair AX750. This is the system I use for work with an i7 2600, 16Gb of memory and a passive graphic card. I wanted this pc silent because I work at home in the same room I have my sound system, this way I can listen music all the time while working. This pc is, as I say, absolutely silent, more in fact than the one I use for music. At a distance of 20cm the noise I can hear is zero. The case has two 12mm fans one in the front, one in the rear and one Scythe fan in the cpu, all of them working at low rpm. So, no noise and no heat. I have not tested this pc though with my sound system so I can´t say if it makes the sound better or worse than the one you can see in my sig. Let me tell you again, if the problem is noise, I´d go for a pc similar to the one I use for working because also is very easy to set up and very cheap.
On the other hand, if the problem we want afford has to do with interferences, besides noise, maybe I´d go for something like Nick and others are building. Well, the problem is in my opinion that: - you are changing the fan noise (negligible in the pc I´ve described above) and interferences inside the case (motherboard,etc) for the noise of the external water cooling pump, if any, and the interference you are putting into the wall that maybe also affect the sound. - The system that Nick is building is still under experimentation and although maybe at the end would be applicable in an easy way so far is: a) hard to understand for the non technical guys like you and me (and many others here, I guess). b): this system is more complicated to build and more expensive.
What I´d do in your case is build a pc like the one above which is not expensive, as silent as possible with fans and wait that Nick, Peter and others finally get a great pc to be used with XX and NOS1 and wait that they put it here in an easy way to be appicable for all of us. Meanwhile I´m glad and feel lucky that they are working hard on it.
Best regards, Juan
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Ultimate Audio Playback / Playback Tweaks and Source related subjects / Re: HOW I´VE BUILT MY NEW PC FOR XXHIGHEND AND WHY I´VE CHOSEN THE COMPONENTS
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on: May 08, 2012, 12:51:44 am
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Hi stanray, congratulations for that great system including the rack and the Purepower conditioner, the NOS1 in black looks great although I almost can´t imagine it other than blue.
My working pc is almost like yours, maybe I´ll try it with the NOS1 to see how it sounds, the mb that I use in that pc is a P8H67-M EVO, with a i7 2.600 and 16Gb kingstone, a pasive GPU and it is very silent also. Making some arrangements I could make almost a clone of yours. I´ll follow your changes to see if I can apply it to my computer and compare it with the one that I have now dedicated to music.
The Modu MD1 looks very nice, where did you buy it, in Italy?
Regards, Juan
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Ultimate Audio Playback / Playback Tweaks and Source related subjects / Re: HOW I´VE BUILT MY NEW PC FOR XXHIGHEND AND WHY I´VE CHOSEN THE COMPONENTS
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on: May 06, 2012, 07:21:41 pm
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but in some way Nick is a pioneer so we are lucky that he´s working hard to get better sound everyday Maybe not even in "some way" but in a most explicit (and good) way. Sounds contradictionary to what I said in the earlier post ? Maybe. Not in my opinion, I understood correctly your words and what you wanted to say. I hope my words were also understood, far from any second intention here. Nick or anyone else, could explain in an easy way how to build a linear power supply for the drive and what should be the specifications? Kind regards, Juan
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