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    Melco N1A - sound quality using JBOD and RAID 0

    I am using a Melco N1A 2EX with two 3TB physical HDDs which can be configured in JBOD, RAID0 or RAID1 mode. My Melco dealer claims that RAID0 results in the best sound quality. Ian Ainsley of Melco seems to suggest the same thing here. I am somewhat skeptical, as RAID 0 is likely to cause a...
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    Sound Quality of new roon versions (builds)

    I have been reading this forum regularly but have not posted in a long time. As many I have been dissatisfied with Roon SQ for as long as I can remember. I use Roon for casual listening during dinner, but I always use Mosaic on my dCS (soon to be upgraded to APEX) Rossini for deep listening...
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    Music server solution

    Ah, good you mention that you intend to use HQ Player or jRiver. Are you planning to upsample PCM to DSD256 (=4xDSD)? Or will you play material that is already in DSD256 form? For the first you need significant horsepower (=PC). For the second I would really try a tiny Odroid / Volumio box...
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    Music server solution

    Not an off the shelf solution, but interesting with very little costs of regret: I have been using several Odroid C2 with Volumio2 for the past two years. Simple to set up and use, excellent sound quality.
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    OPPO and HDCD

    The conversion software probably does not work exactly like the Pacific Microsonics HDCD Chip based solution, but for me and for all practical purposes it will do and save me a lot of hassle. If you do want the real thing, a used Berkeley Alpha DAC is probably the best way to go...
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    OPPO and HDCD

    Hi Grattle After some more searching, I am inclined to agree with you. Software decoding HDCD is a thorny subject. http://lukeskaff.com/the-quest-for-a-hdcd-software-decoder/ https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php/topic,112348.0.html http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/HFN/HDCD/Enigma.html
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    OPPO and HDCD

    To be independent of the playback equipment, I have HDCD decoded the rips of my HDCDs with foobar: http://www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_hdcd The plugin also enables the display of the presence of HDCD encoding parameters (PE etc.) in the foobar status line. Nice. Is there any...
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