Euphony OS v4 beta test results COMING SOON!

[DHT4ME]

I have been testing a beta version of Euphony 4 this week. I built an Ultracap supplied Ryzen 9 based server a few months ago and was not able to get it going on OS 3 which had some network card compatibility issues and some CPU management glitches however the new kernel and latest Linux compile has sorted out the hiccups. What is really exciting is the upsampling options now available.
Euphony V3 was my favorite in my Baetis based server vs the windows based OS and the new V4 when run in RamRoot on the Ryzen takes it to a whole new level and adds the ability to experiment with algos and DSP.

I would describe it as an HQ player level of Sonics with only the better sounding algorithms as options. HQ player is still an embedded option as well as Roon.

I am quite blown away as the Ryzen based server was horrible on Audiolinux no matter what optimization I tried. A nice feature of the new OS is the ability to share optimizations to the Euphony cloud for recalling states or allow others to build optimizations with similar hardware and share. This was up and impressing on the first ramroot boot and I am sure it will rapidly get better with the crowd sourcing of optimizations.

 

[Marko Dvecko]

Any news?

 

[DHT4ME]

Well I am really enjoying music now with the upgrade. So much that I have not been feeling the impulse to check out the forums.
That is actually a very good thing.

I have tried the uprezz algos and Mozzaik is the most natural and engaging uprezz method to me. I hear artifacts on the other algos. Some people may be used to those artifacts or need some extra edge but to me Mozzaik has the really good DSD recording attributes while being on PCM.

I am streaming with Mozzaik algo at 706khz/24 to my AN DAC5 which has an aftermarket interface for 768k non OS.

The interface is much faster and smoother however I went from a 6 core Intel to a 12 core Ryzen so that may be a big part of that as well to the improved SQ.

Customer service is excellent as usual with responses to service tickets within a day.

OS System tweeks are subtle which leads me yo believe that the OS is very optimized.

The coolest thing it there is the ability to upload your system optimization profiles to the Euphony cloud for
you or others to try and be able to recover your system in case you want to return to a baseline.

 

[Marko Dvecko]

Thanks for the feedback. Update with improvements of Mozzaik Upsampler is coming soon.

 

[Marko Dvecko]

There are updates of the Mozzaik Upsampler available in the beta version. Don't know when it will be in the production. Upsampling filters were modified to get better sound on the old CDs. Mayority of improvements is done in the DSD upsampling area. I reccomend Mozzaik DSD upsampling for DACs that can do direct DSD conversion.
@DHT4ME is your DAC with 20bit resolution?

 

[Marko Dvecko]

Release version of Euphony with new version of Mozzaik Upsampler is available for update. Improvements are mentioned in the previous post.