And now my sound is SCARY

[christoffe]

As I wrote a couple of days ago, the “100W HDPlex”  LPS arrived and the SQ improved with a very quiet background and “digging out” more details (not heard before).

My conclusion: “Something is going on with the SQ using a LPS”.

Thank you too, Joachim. But ... where did you write that ? I missed it (and now can't find it).

Thank you,
Peter

Hi Peter,

there is a "hell of traffic" in this forum at present and I didn't mention the brand of the LPS, but see here:

http://www.phasure.com/index.php?topic=3268.msg35384#msg35384

To clarify, we all know, that every system sounds different, very different.

Joachim

[rakeshpoorun]

Rakesh, you quote me where I say that I cannot tell what each of the modifications on their own bring to the overall sound. Only that the combination was very good. And than you turn it around 180 degrees (again) and sarcastically comment on my 'claims' that I can make that kind of distinctions on what each of the modifications bring separately. Either you do this misinterpretation on purpose or, however hard your teachers tried, you should ask for your money back.

Hi Leo

Let's put it this way. There are two aspects to this.

First I was rather annoyed, peeved, miffed by your earlier unsolicited rudeness.My earlier post was clearer in that regard but Peter suggested I edit my post, which I did, the Magna Carta being a British thing and  not being well known elsewhere. With that editing, the baby went out with the bathwater.

Second, if it is the case truly you cannot tell the difference then by rights your comment should belong in the section with the change which was most accountable for what you heard. It so happened your post went in the 'scary thread."

Now I am very mindful about what I can say and so would rather say less than I truly think on this matter. For the record though, I would reiterate that I am actually supportive of this use of Windows 10 in Ramdisk for the XXHighend PC but I do not follow what Peter calls the 'mainstream ' reasons for it positively affecting sound. Again this is something I will do but at this early stage I would have avoided being so gung-ho out of consideration for others who may now think their PC need a MAJOR and EXPENSIVE reconfiguration. Only in my case of course, it is easier for me to hang back a little ( I do trust Peter), wait for further confirmation of those who try the new tweak and take it from there.

In the meantime, another advantage is that I can concentrate on the development of my acoustic system, which is all about planning, designing and building (getting it built).

So no I did not misunderstand you. It's just I did not care much for the rudeness you exhibited and the elephant in a China shop syndrome of your post, aims at nothing and hits everything. So now you know. I could say more but Peter's earlier reaction to an expression of speculative doubt, which was more about trying to understand the reasoning and the why, does not bode well for such a thought being expressed here and now.

But let's keep it in good spirits. It's only an opinion based in large measure on what I have read here and elsewhere. I strongly second Joachim's view, expressed above, though that "every system sounds different, very different" and that makes it difficult to see the wood from the trees and encourages unfortunate generalisations...For example to what extent a LPS benefits your PC depends on one million other factors but somehow here people are trying to establish the positive effect or otherwise by relying on some random anecdotal evidence. Not kosher but again only my opinion.

Beat regards
Rakesh

[acg]

Something else is that I feel that the "normal" linear power supply is NOT doing what it theoretically promises. I see no proof of it anywhere and to give one example from our own circles : even Mani stays silent.

Arjan mentioned a positive change last year in the LPS thread.  That was with a simple LPS into a picoPSU.

[PeterSt]

First I was rather annoyed, peeved, miffed by your earlier unsolicited rudeness.My earlier post was clearer in that regard but Peter suggested I edit my post, which I did, the Magna Carta being a British thing and  not being well known elsewhere. With that editing, the baby went out with the bathwater.

Oh, is that so. In that case I'm afraid that none of us can get through to you, especially me (not).
You fool with me just the same you know. What a waste of time ...

I understand that it's not a culture thing either. Well, then it is just you. And if you are so persistent with this all, we don't like you. But I already told you; it is raining complaints here.
So you are out; depening on what further happens, maybe forever.

Peter

[juanpmar]

Fact is that I have detached my 3 chassis fans for more than a year now, because there was the OS 2.5" hdd in it only anyway and the CPU (though cooled (in silent fashion)) is not warmer than 40 Celcius at any time (plus I have the lid off all this time).

Peter thanks,

How do you cool down silently the cpu?

Where could I find information on how to lower the CPU frequency in the forum? If I remember well it not only helps to have lower temperature but also better SQ.

Regards,
Juan

[PeterSt]

Juan,

Normally the CPU is cooled "silently" with heat pipes. However, our PC does it with a very low rev and large double fan cooler (19dBA max = inaudible).

The CU frequency as how I (and others) have it at 430MHz is from the ASRock MoBo which by accident or bug combination (with the OS) allows that under Windows 8 (Windows 10 no change).

Regards,
Peter

[AlainGr]

Hi Juan,

Having a Sabertooth X79 (I got mine in 2012), I can't lower the CPU clock below 1.3ghz, no matter what I try. At some point, the PC refuses to start. I can see the power light fluctuate as if it was attempting to start, but then it shuts...

Alain

[juanpmar]

Thanks Peter and Alain. It seems that with my motherboard it is impossible to avoid the fans.

Regards,
Juan

[music33]

Peter,
I have no words of education - I have been thinking about it and if I were to try I would probably do something like the following -
- boot into DOS mode
- create a very large RAM drive
- copy the OS from an external drive into the RAM drive
- start Windows
this would be pretty slow...
I'm not sure on shutdown how things would get saved back to the external disk. 
I tip my hat to you once again.

[vrao]

So there is a very valid theory for this, but one had to experience it to confirm ....