Ok, everybody, it's REEEEEBOOOOOOOOOT time!

[pedal]

My dedicated music PC has only 1 duty: Carry my music and running my XX player.
 
I keep it on 24/7. It is connected to the internet, but I never use it for surfing on the net. Except when downloading XX updates.
But it does perform some automatic antivirus upgrades and security stuff on my OS. I guess this is done from time to time (I let it run in automatic update mode regarding the Windows security stuff).

Anyway, yesterday I discovered a suboptimal SQ in my system. -A kind of hardening in the upper mid range, adding some “glare” and (too much) forwardness on piano, especially.

Today I rebooted the PC and voila!, back to normal. SQ now more homogenic and neutral. I can play louder without fatigue.

-I guess from time to time we have to reset our PCs and let them empty “some sh*t” or whatever happens.

[PeterSt]

But why do you have it connected to the Internet then ? I mean, don't you have the LAN shut off (in XXHighEnd) ?

Further ... yes, that would be my idea too. In my case a boot session usually doesn't last 2 days so it's alright automatically. But otherwise I would reboot explicitly once in the x (?) days ...

Peter

[juanpmar]

Hi pedal,

My dedicated music PC has only 1 duty: Carry my music and running my XX player.
 
I keep it on 24/7. It is connected to the internet, but I never use it for surfing on the net. Except when downloading XX updates.

GREAT! That way to use the PC is in my opinion what XX/NOS1 deserves. On the other hand if you only use Internet to download XX updates why don´t you connect to Internet just to do it?

But it does perform some automatic antivirus upgrades and security stuff on my OS. I guess this is done from time to time (I let it run in automatic update mode regarding the Windows security stuff).

Again, if you only use internet to connect to the XX web site why don´t you forget about antivirus and uninstall it.

Anyway, yesterday I discovered a suboptimal SQ in my system. -A kind of hardening in the upper mid range, adding some “glare” and (too much) forwardness on piano, especially.

Today I rebooted the PC and voila!, back to normal. SQ now more homogenic and neutral. I can play louder without fatigue.

-I guess from time to time we have to reset our PCs and let them empty “some sh*t” or whatever happens.

I agree, but I´d say that it is even better if you shut off totally the PC for a while. I do it every two or three days and the sound seems cleaner. That´s at least my experience.

Best regards,
Juan

[boleary]

When rebooting doesn't reduce the glare enough, I would add defragging the drive XX is on as another way to reduce "glare" when it appears.