My wifi is unreliable in the media room and that is why I want to install a local server and USB drive. But I never seem to get around to it...
My wifi is unreliable in the media room and that is why I want to install a local server and USB drive. But I never seem to get around to it...
No, too cheap to upgrade everything (just bought a new router and range extender last year, plus a couple sets of powerline adapters; the latter worked for my son, also in the basement, but not for the media room with dedicated power lines). You also take a performance hit with a mesh network, not that it would be noticeable to me, and when I last looked the better devices were pricey. My situation I have discussed on ASR elsewhere and is just a bad combination of things arising from choices made many years ago.
Technically my SONOS system is a mesh network, using their built-in scheme, and a CONNECT to my router/switch.
WiFi might work for some, but not reliably for others. I have not been tempted to try it, since I I have an easy solution that works quite well, with perfect reliability and stability for me.My wifi is unreliable in the media room and that is why I want to install a local server and USB drive. But I never seem to get around to it...
But, I often wonder whether some computer audiophiles actually want their PC to be part of the audio shrine up front and center, and that they are willing to go to the added expense of a silent PC to get it.
As I have noted, DSD to PCM resampling in Roon completely maxes out my i5 machine. It almost runs reliably but once in a while it can glitch and fall behind.Do EQ and resampling need that much processing power?
How did you test it to "sound much better"..?@amirm did you try libsamplerate (secret rabbit code) resampling on linux? Software like amarok have it and you can choose quality and frequency. Long time ago it was my favorite sounding. Also i found that mpeg123 was good sounding for mp3 and could directly oversample and have parameters to lower level before decoding it to wave and avoid clipping. Olso on linux i think there are open sources fir eq. I think all is much more customisable on linux.
By the way on windows i found a free player that loaded the decoded waves on memory before playing it via asio.
Here is the link if you want to play.
http://andy-audioplayer.blogspot.com/?m=1
Don't know if it works on new windows but i found the sound much better than foobar for mp3 decoding (you can set codecs to decode at-3db and can set wich codec to use)
Also on linux rt kernels was better for processing audio if i remember.
That looks interesting, had not thought about those, thanks!
To my hears so i m curious if someone has tested itHow did you test it to "sound much better"..?
On hydrogen forums that single statement gets you banned simple as that
I guess with modern dacs there is no need to oversample by software anymore except maybe to make some fir eq at higher frequency?
I remember on linux i had to bypass also the mixer (pulse audio) and configure alsa so that it can render at all frequencies. I think now all that is configured on the hifi linux distribs. But Ubuntu also resample everything by default. On my axon 7 mini i stay with the official rom because with hw codec mx player it doesn't resample and keep 44.1khz. on lineage os it's resampled by 48khz and doesn't sound good.Yes, I don't think so. With exclusive control via WASAPI or ASIO, sending the original 44Khz/48Khz(or higher) to a device with proper fir will handle it with relative perfection.
Unfortunately though, using windows directsound at a hard set sample rate such as 44khz will resample all other audio (e.g. movies) which generally results in fidelity loss. Windows resampler isn't really that good. On other OS it's not as much of a problem...
I also had great results with ethernet over powerline adapters made by TP-Link. I was able to reliably stream HD video content over them so they should work with no effort with audio.
Is it just me or the build in OP seems overkill?