Try a media player with memory playback like J RiverI feel lazy and wouldn't want to start from scratch
I think that amirm is spot on the button with his comment that SSD's put a much quieter load on the power supply than normal spinning hard discs. With the servo control of the seek arm, the power could be the reason why we all think a SSD sounds better. I modified my home PC using external power supplies for all the drives, and it did make it sound far better. Realizing this, there is no need for large SSDs if the actual music store is external, on a disk array that has an external power supply.
For those of you who want your music server "diagnosed", bring them early to the next meeting (Sept 9). I will be there early (before 6pm) and we can have a mini-session. I'm also in the process of building another server RMAF, if anyone's interested, I'll share my component list, and we could build a few together. It's not done yet - some components didn't work well together, but it will be sub-$500 and run Windows 7.
Recently Home Theater and High Fidelity tested the jitter of a blue-ray player with and without the optical disk spinning.
As you can see it is measurable on the SPDIF out.
Sound plausible to me that a HD has the same impact or probably more.
Inquiring mind wants to know .. Did you write sub $500? Also interested in what you did to the power supplies
Thanks for your replay Bill.Results like this are great for generating a hypothesis. However, they aren't necessarily sufficient to allow a difference to be ascribed to a specific cause or to decide whether it is significant.
Bill
Thanks for your replay Bill.
As usual hard to disagree with your thoughtful analysis.
I looked at the matter from a different perspective.
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This is the first time I see some measurements indicating that this relation indeed exist, is measurable.
As we audiophiles have very revealing gear and such an acute hearing that we can even hear inaudible differences, I was glad to find some evidence that at least there is a measurable effect.
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