pablolie wrote: > When even Intel declares Moore's Law in hiatus, you know semiconductor > advances have slowed a fair amount when it comes to some design > parameters - but not all of them.
Note that we don't talk about CPU speed anymore. Intel nixed that years ago. pablolie wrote: > I *will* build a new machine in the next year or so, but it will not be > for performance reasons - multimedia works perfectly well with that I > have. I ran LMS on an Atom with 2GB for years with no issues. I only upgraded to an i3 when I decided to run video over my server. My newest desktop is a Core2 Duo E8400 and it's as fast as I need. pablolie wrote: > As to networking and bandwidth... I haven't been in an environment where > music challenges stuff in a long time. Even though my wired network is gigabit-rated, I never see anything near that speed when moving files around. There are other bottlenecks. 24/96 (the highest res I play) needs less than 5 MB/sec. pablolie wrote: > I especially think today is an amazing time to put together budget > systems, or systems up to $10k or so. When we moved last year I put together an NAD D3020 and NHT 2.1 system for the living room for around $1500 that is just as enjoyable a listen as my system in the "listening room" that costs over 10x as much. pablolie wrote: > *Arguably the biggest advance, and one that still hasn't sunk into the > old fashioned brains of most audio enthusiasts, is software controlled > and DSP based room optimization. Raise your hand if you have one! I do! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Apesbrain's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=738 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106593 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
