Peter,
Thanks for the updated RAMOS. Words cannot describe the sound I am getting with Win10 14393! More detail, nuance, bass, treble, realism - and I thought 10586 was sounding pretty good! With the (preowned/used) Intel 6152 I picked up and a server board the sound of the 10586 was similar to the Transrotor Fat Bob Reference turntable with Kuzma 4Point 11-inch arm and Koetsu Rosewood cartridge which I think sounds quite good.
With 14393 running from SSD I thought it sounded amazing. Added MinOS and thought why bother with RAMOS as my computer takes 10 minutes to boot into RAM! Gave it a try and again, better. And I haven't tried unattended mode yet. (Better to me means more realism.)
My previous computer, an ASROCK Fatal1ty X99, took 2.5 to 3 minutes to boot to RAM. I read that servers with IPMI take longer to boot but just booting on SSD doesn't take that long. The ticker when booting to RAM goes so slow. Perhaps I'll figure it out one day but for now it isn't a big deal. Because power dips weekly where I am I have been turning the player PC off even though it is on a UPS.
Upgrading the RAMOS to include 14393 was worth it! I think you wrote if you cannot have the Mach III Audio PC you would give it up. Now, I feel I need another motherboard just to be sure I don't have to do so because there is no going back. (To be clear, I don't have a Mach III and don't have a linear power supply. This crazy audio ride has to stop sometime (?).)
I ran 10586 on an i7-5690 8-core for so many years. I tried an E5-2699v3 for a couple months and then found a server board and 6152 at a price I could afford. I feel like I just caught up.
I don't understand what goes on with a server computer and the Scalable processor vs. say the ASROCK I was using which is now retired. Is it jitter? Does jitter somehow pass on to the DAC even with a re-clocker? Of course, re-clocker/DAC clock frequency matters and could actually increase errors if done incorrectly. If a DAC double-clocked data in at 5x the data rate it seems it should then be on the DAC [ultra-stable] clock and we would be subjected to its jitter only. Or is it something else?
[talking to myself now] I'll have to remove the Denafrips Gaia reclocker that is before the Denafrips Venus II DAC and see what it sounds like. Denafrips/Thesycon driver has some issue with loosing sync and the audio sounds like static. It just started happening to me when I changed to the E5 CPU on the ASROCK PC and also on the server computer. Was getting dropouts regardless of XXHE settings until I went back to V5.00 driver which still clicks at times but doesn't skip as it did on v5.50 driver. Also, changed the preamp from DIY Pass Aleph 1.7 to DIY Lynn Olson Raven with added phono pre. Any connection with that? [sigh] I could buy everything but that is no fun.
So, for now, enjoying what I have. Thanks!
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