Nick, I would be most interested to see these FFT's.

Welcome Josh,

I reckon it would be the driver for your dac that directs the data stream to the ethernet port rather than the USB port.  Makes it simple then...just tell XXHE which driver to use and it should all work.

Peter might say otherwise though...perhaps.  You can download a demo version of the software to give it a go yourself (see downloads section).  What dac are you using?

Cheers,

Anthony

Yes, 10 years later.  It's not like Peter is not trying...

Nah, I reckon keep the filtering in the pc software if possible.  Three (or six!) bands transmitted to the dac with a fancy interface that Peter and Paul develops, perhaps even with one cable.  Three (or six!) dac outputs direct to six (or twelve!) amplifiers.

But only good for computer playback.  If you have any analogue sources then the filter needs to be line level or speaker level or a mix of both.  Or Peter gets funky with a sota ADC in front of it all with volume control and source selection which is all starting to sound like a preamplifier which is a dirty word as far as Peter is concerned.

But it would be nice, especially if the ADC was truly transparent...and the RIAA equalisation was applied in software between the ADC and DAC, and the dac could push 4VRMS plus.

It's nice to dream...

What a great product if there was such a thing...

Glad I did not disappoint!

Looking forward to it.  Am a bit sad about the NOS2 shelving which would suit me more than the multi-band dac with filters at pc software level.  Analogue sources and all that...

Sweet.  Thanks Peter.

Hi Peter,

A quick question that hopefully you are able to answer just as quickly.

So, I have made my Storage Spaces to hold my music, one consists of 4TB SSD's and the other 6TB HDD's.  I am not sure at this stage if I will use the HDD Storage Space to act as a backup to the SSD Storage Space, or if they will each be configured as two way mirrors.  The HDD's are slow to spin up when searching which is why I have gone with SSD's to store most of my music.

I have 9TB of music, growing all the time.  How much SSD room do I require to hold the Galleries?  I was thinking of adding a M2 SSD just for the Galleries assuming they do not require anywhere near as much room as the music files themselves, and M2 drives are very fast.

Regards,

Anthony   

Is this something to do with the "USB replacement" interface you teased last year?  Or was Paul sidetacked to something else...the DSP?

Yes.

Later:  But I should add that they are monoblocs...6 amps in each side.

Do you stop at 3 channels though?  I need six!  That's a big strain on Neutriks BNC production capacity.

Seriously though Peter, is the NOS2 shelved?  I still love the idea of a discrete dac.

Is it even possible to play Led Zep at low volume?  Has it ever been done?


I was thinking more of when the search button is pressed on the iPad to be able to say "Led Zeppellin III" and the text is filled out in the box and of you go with the search.  Typing on tablets is no fun...

Numlog, I am not sure if you are aware, but how low you can go with the SFS is dependent upon the AudioPC cpu clock speed.  The more it is underclocked the lower you can go with SFS before experiencing the clicks and pops.  So when you say the pops are a software thing, in my eyes you are sort of right but the more complete picture is that it is the computer hardware that influences SFS, and in particular the cpu speed (underclocking).

At least that is my experience.  Of course there may also be other triggers.

Looking forward to it.

Have been wondering how feasible getting voice recognition into the search function would be...typing is so last year!!  Even started looking for software that might be useful.

I know the feeling Peter.  However, I am looking forward to the sub-galleries feature of 2.11.  Am actually having my first go at Galleries today...after say 6 years or so of XXHE...so I cannot be too judgemental about "postponing" haha.