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> We continued experimenting and created multiple partitions that were 900 > MB in size. We found that the music track sounded different depending on > where on the SSD is was. When it was on the partition nearest the boot > partition it sounded the worst. We believe this to be because the > signals are closer to each other and results in interference between > the memory banks. When the partition was near opposite side of the SSD > it sounded smoother. > > We also found that there was an audible difference of how the partition > was formatted. NTFS sounded the edgiest, ext3 sounded better, FAT and > ext2 sounded the smoothest. However, they were nowhere near as close to > the quality when having the music running from the boot partition. In a > direct comparison between FAT and boot, the FAT sounded slower and > blurrier with noisy bass, when switching to boot it sounded both > smoother and faster with cleaner and tighter bass that had more > microdetail. -- whoosh *Server*: Ubuntu 8.04 Server on Intel 1.66GHz Core Duo Mac Mini, 1GB RAM, 72GB internal for OS, 750GB Maxtor One Touch Firewire for media. SC 7.3.1~24372 *Main Audio*: SB Touch> Audio Research LS2B mkII > Audio Research VT100 mkII > Soliloquy 5.3 *Work Audio*: SB Receiver > Jolida SJ801 > NHT Super Zero's http://www.last.fm/user/megamucho ------------------------------------------------------------------------ whoosh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=21818 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=86541 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
