XXHE RAM OS disk as of 2016.01.22 using Win10586
Player1: SuperMicro X11SPM-F, pre-owned Intel 6152 Gold Scalable 22 cores (set to 20), 6x8GB, Corsair GS600 ATX PS, 2.5-inch SANDISK Plus SSD for RAMOS - remains after booting, M.2 Kinston NV2 1TB NVME PCIe 4.0 Gen 4x4 3500MB/s music disk (or use external via Ethernet); cannot use M.2 NVMe SSD as boot device with CSM legacy boot so used a 2.5 inch SSD for booting; using onboard USB3.0 to DAC with good results but haven't tried my Silverstone USB card. Use KVM with 15 inch "portable" display once booted. AMAZING SENSE OF REALISM
Player2 (retired): ASRock Fatal1ty X99M Killer/3.1, was i7-5960X 8 cores changed to a pre-owned E5-2699v3 18 cores (set to 14), 48GB 2400MHz DDR4 RAM, RAMOS Win10586 on 120GB M.2 SSD, music files over LAN, ASUS GT210 Silent Graphics card, Silverstone USB 3.0 card
Music Server: ASROCK BeeBox direct Ethernet connection to player PC
XXHE 2.11 since about 4/2023 for the CPU core selection feature; arc predict; Min OS;attended or unattended; Device: Denafrips v5.0 or KS Amanero Streaming depending on DAC; KS Mode: Adaptive; Device Buffer: 2048 or 4096; tweaks - 43/1/-/1/1, Q1:14, Q3,4,5: 1; SFS 1 to 5; Straight Contiguous; Garbage Collect (sometimes can select); Clear Proxy; Denafrips Venus II DAC is 24bit/192KHz, DIY Dual ES9018 DAC is 32bits 384KHz; Cores 3-5; Player Prio:low; Thread Prio:RealTime; Clock Resolution:15ms; Stop Services (desktop, remaining, WASAPI and WIN10); Use Remote Desktop; Don't Keep LAN, PAN or WiFi; OSD Text; Show as Wall Paper
Equipment: Denafrips Venus II R2R DAC and DIY Dual ES9018 Twisted Pear Audio DAC boards using Amanero USB receiver (384KHz) with isolated buffer (ISO7640FM), preamp is DIY Lynn Olson Raven with an added Phono Preamp; Douglas Self Trimodal selectable Class A or Class AB 20W amp; Klipschorns (modified slightly); balanced mains power transformers: one for amp and one for low level equip; Alt. Speaker: ScanSpeak (2) 10" Revelator, (2) Illuminator 4", (1) Beryllium Dome Tweeter, tuned ports
Room Treatment: 4, 4 x 24 x 48 inch panels |