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How do most ASR’ers cool their music servers / streamers / transports? Fans or no fans? Some great threads focus on fan-less setups, but are largely free of comparative metrics on room noise floor, fan model max dB ratings (manufacturer specs or as measured in situ), chassis-to-MLP distance...

From 2013 onward, I began a systematic survey of FFT measurements published by some German Hi-Fi magazines. Those magazines belong to a publisher which runs its own laboratory, thus ensuring consistency in the measurement method. At that time, I was driven by sheer curiosity. My goal was to...

While some of you are familiar with the Raspberry Pi or its more powerful brother, the Intel NUC, I wonder what people are using in their audio setups. The last few years a large number of mini PC manufacturers has sprung up using anything from 10W chipsets to firebreathing high-end laptop CPUs...

You will note from this simple question that this is all new to me. I have an TU-8200R tube amp with a DAC board: https://tubedepot.com/products/elekit-tu-8200-optional-dac-module-ps-3249 I want to get music on my hard drive to the DAC and be able to control it through a tablet or phone...

"The brains, a Broadcom BCM2711 system-on-chip, features four 64-bit Armv8 Cortex-A72 CPU cores clocked at 1.5GHz, a step up from the A53 found in the Model 3 B+. The Raspberry Pi Foundation reckons its latest shiny-shiny is comparable to an entry-level x86-based system and we’d have to agree...