Mike, can you use the same WS2012R2 license on the new drive or will you just clone it?
Mike, can you use the same WS2012R2 license on the new drive or will you just clone it?
I'm afraid I'm not techie enough to know what a dual pc is, or it's significance. i'll see what I can learn and comment. likely I don't have that if I don't understand it.
logically a dual pc would be one box with 2 CPU's so you can run parallel programs of some sort.
With the Audiophile Optimizer v2.0 installed, Roon should instal without any problems on Win 2012. With AO v1.4 it was very difficoult.
I have a quite normal Win10 PC with i7 6700, 16 GB RAM, 256 GB SSD for the heavy lifting of Room and especially HQPlayer upsampling in another room and a very lightweight Win10 Intel NUC with a Pentium N3700 as HQP NAA to feed my GG via USB.
This way the powerful PC does not have to be especially silent because it's in another room anyways, whereas the Intel NUC HQP NAA can be very low noise (sound wise and electrically) and the NUC can easily be optimized with a good linear power supply.
If the Sonore MicroRendu would already be able to deliver DSD512 into the GG, I would probably go for that one as NAA instead of the Intel NUC.
Hi Ruben
I'm sorry, unfortunately I don't have any experience with AO (I did read it's supposed to be very good, though).
But I can't think of a reason, why AO should not work in this config...
Yes, but I don't know when or if I ever get a powerful enough computer to render dsd512.
I tried it on WS2012, WS2012R2 and WS2012R2 Essentials. Turned out that you need certain media packages/roles.
Doesn't matter, even the lower rates DSD64 and 128 will get a slight improvement!
Hi Norman,
you are saying that the separate dsd512 engine will sound superior to the r2r/dsd256 standard combo even when only using dsd up to 128? Have you A/B ed this yourself already?
The AO v2.0 has a fix for that.
You are not 100% happy with the Taka 274b?
I guess you are the first one ;-)
I live in Europe and ordering from pricejapan doesn't appeal too much to me...
Where do you live?
my essentially new GG showed up today at work. got home and unwrapped and unpacked it. for the last few hours I stumbled around trying to get everything to work. had to change settings in the SGM server for HQ Player -> 512dsd. set the new rear switch to KR242 setting, and installed those KR242's along with the Tak recti. then I could not get the GG to fire up......tried everything.....frustrated.....then noticed it was set for 230v. switched to 115v and all good. then could not get any sound, tried this and that.....had my son check on my NAS.....all ok there. played with the front button but could not get sound. went to the Lampizator website but the manual for the GG would not download. so switched the HQ Player back to the Quad dsd setting and I have music.
wow!!!
I found I have to switch the front button when I go from PCM to DSD. but this is a whole new level of digital.......so much musical energy and pace. and the KR242's are more linear and agile than the Elrogs.
and I'm not yet getting the 512 boost. but the superclocks and the ground post are not hurting. and I'm very impressed with the PCM RTR w/SGM server so far. great PCM!!!
this is a few orders of magnitude better than before......more later. I see many hours of break-in in front of me.
Could somebody share the correct settings for HQplayer in order to upsample everything to DSD512. I've build a powerfull enough system (6700K, 16GB) to upsample but I struggle to find the correct settings. HQplayer does see the Amanero in my GG. I've got the backend set to ASIO and the device is Combo 384 ASIO 1.03, is this correct?
Feel free to email me a screen dump of your HQP settings Ruben
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