Good post from teo_audio. The banner ads on Audiogon are out of control. I use AdGuard on my iPad to block all that crap.
Audiogon Is Noisy
I use my 5 year old cheapo PC (DELL Optiplex 790), that I picked up from the trash heap and fixed, to stream ROON to my DAC. Now my streaming sounds pretty amazing because I use a Sonore microRendu. This eliminates the noise in my computer from getting to my DAC. I still have the Ethernet network noise getting into the DAC but that is not that much. For, another $1K I will upgrade to the "OpticalRendu LITE for ROON Only" and that noise goes away too (for the most part).
http://www.theabsolutesound.com/articles/how-to-optimize-digital-streaming-with-optical-fiber/
So I thought I should be in good shape once I get the opticalRendu. However, recently this audio office computer with ROON was starting to have CPU usage that averages 45%. At this rate of CPU usage, my computer fans come on and my machine is no longer silent. A real bummer for audio. So I am thinking I need a new more powerful processor for my mostly audio only PC. Normally my CPU usage is around 10%. I also do some remote desktop via this machine but that hardly uses any CPU.
Well after a bit of testing today I find out it is AUDIOGON.COM that is making all the noise on my computer. With my browser opened up to A’gon the site’s advertisement JavaScript (likely written by monkeys) is jacking up the CPU. I killed the browser running A’gon and CPU is back to my beautiful 10% range and silence again.
So the moral of the story is don’t keep a browser open to A’gon while streaming.
http://www.theabsolutesound.com/articles/how-to-optimize-digital-streaming-with-optical-fiber/
So I thought I should be in good shape once I get the opticalRendu. However, recently this audio office computer with ROON was starting to have CPU usage that averages 45%. At this rate of CPU usage, my computer fans come on and my machine is no longer silent. A real bummer for audio. So I am thinking I need a new more powerful processor for my mostly audio only PC. Normally my CPU usage is around 10%. I also do some remote desktop via this machine but that hardly uses any CPU.
Well after a bit of testing today I find out it is AUDIOGON.COM that is making all the noise on my computer. With my browser opened up to A’gon the site’s advertisement JavaScript (likely written by monkeys) is jacking up the CPU. I killed the browser running A’gon and CPU is back to my beautiful 10% range and silence again.
So the moral of the story is don’t keep a browser open to A’gon while streaming.
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Well my software debugging took me to a new audio related bug today. When using ROON my CPU was spiking to 30%+, it should be under 10%. At 30% the fans come on, similar to when the internet browsers are hogging CPU with ad Java Script doodoo. What I found today was that when the ROON application was maximized on 1 of my 3 monitors the GPU and CPU spiked. The GPU to 100% and the CPU to 30%+. I minimized the ROON application so that it was hidden and the GPU went down to under 5% and the CPU about 6%. Seems like a new ROON bug to me. I am running on a Windows 10 Enterprise version 1903 build 18362.959. I really should post this on the ROON forum. Maybe tomorrow. |
Posted the following on ROON Support forum.
Seems like this is a known problem on Macs, I am using Windows. https://community.roonlabs.com/t/high-cpu-and-gpu-usage-on-macbook-pro-2020/114416 |
GPU issue is now solved with the help of some stranger in London, UK. Likely a ROON engineer. https://community.roonlabs.com/t/gpu-100-on-roon-client-maximized/115316/9 I reinstalled the display drivers and the GPU is no longer going crazy. It seems Windows updates sometimes replaces OEM drivers with their own. I had an update to my OS done on the 15th of July. That seems like when my ROON when crazy. |
Try downloading Adaware and running a full scan. It is an anti-spybot product. I have found that Adaware will find a lot of things that normal antivirus programs miss. A lot of web-based trojans. These can actually affect web browser performance on many sites. That being said, I have not found Audiogon forums to be that noisy on ads and performance. In my experience, avsforums had gotten really bad. It was so bad that it would take just about 30-45 seconds for a web page to load because there was so much crap all over the place. I think they cleaned up a lot of it because it’s not so bad now, but a year ago it was absolutely unusable. |
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