Greg Erskine wrote: > Hi M-H; > > Nice post. I think this was edwardthern's original intention, give it a > go. It is simple to do, only takes a few minutes and there is no $$$ > cost. > > I do think edwardthern was a little harshly done by in this thread and > unfortunately that provoked a "reaction". > > One thing I can't understand, if people find a tweak marginally improves > the sound quality why don't they try doing the opposite and make it > sound far worse. That would prove to me that something is happening. For > example, lets assume reducing CPU usage from 1% to 0.5% improves sound > quality, then conversely, increasing CPU usage from 1% to 50% should > cause a major degradation in sound quality! > > I do find commercial products based on voodoo immoral, maybe if people > experimented with "free" voodoo they would be less likely to be conned? > > regards > Greg
Our friend Archimago tried just that in his blog a while ago, he loaded some computer close to 100% while putting out audio to a DAC or the motherboards own audio chip . The DAC performed to spec until the system become overwhelmed and you get buffering and breakups , no sliding scale of subtle sound degradation depending on load . It worked until it didn't. http://archimago.blogspot.se/2013/03/measurements-hunt-for-load-induced.html -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: Touch + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) iPad1 with iPengHD & SqueezePad (spares Touch, SB3, reciever ,controller ) server HP proliant micro server N36L with ClearOS Linux http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106252 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
