djones51
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| If you had to pick a laptop or mini-PC, which one? NUC is a computer, streamers are basically computers optimized for one purpose so it won't have as many processes running the CPU is usually ARM based, less noise which might be noticeable. I use a NUC and I never noticed the sound being worse tha... | |
| If you had to pick a laptop or mini-PC, which one? I use a flash drive connected by USB I never have had any problems. I imagine the card reader is connected to internal USB bus or PCIe. | |
| HDMI i2s Cable I2S cables need to be as short as possible. I2S was never intended for box to box transmission only chip to chip. | |
| If you had to pick a laptop or mini-PC, which one? The I mobile CPU is built on 10nm tech the U on 14nm. The U has better graphics and few other things that are not relevant to what you’re doing. There isn’t that much difference for what you want to do which is stream music you can do that with a ... | |
| If you had to pick a laptop or mini-PC, which one? To stream music yes it's more than enough. Put your music on one of these. The laptop I linked has a card readerhttps://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-256GB-Extreme-UHS-I-SDSDXXY-256G-GN4IN/dp/B07H9VX76D/ref=asc_df_B07H9... | |
| If you had to pick a laptop or mini-PC, which one? I have no idea what laptops you're looking at but here's one about$400 that would do everything you want. https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-laptops/inspiron-15-3000-laptop/spd/inspiron-15-3593-laptop/nn3... | |
| HDMI i2s Cable Here's one under $500. https://kitsunehifi.com/product/generic-i2s-hdmi-cable-0-3m/ | |
| ... abit confused: how does a power cord affect the presentation of sound... You're asking why is a power supply different than a cable? I didn't notice anyone mention water but you. The power supply effectivly stops RF getting in and out with electrostatic screens between the primary and secondary in the transformer. As... | |
| If you had to pick a laptop or mini-PC, which one? If a windows laptop does everything you want now I would look at a new laptop. No need to spend a lot if all you do is use it for streaming. You could even get a refurbished Dell desktops on Amazon around $250 including Windows 10. | |
| If you had to pick a laptop or mini-PC, which one? Are you going to use the laptop for anything other than streaming music? | |
| ... abit confused: how does a power cord affect the presentation of sound... Headphone cables might have some triboelectric noise unless you sit very still. In modern not vintage ( over 30 years old) electronics RF interference is mitigated by any competent power supply. | |
| Does Anyone Currently Make an Ethernet to I2S Renderer? Makes sense I2S was never intended to be used between boxes just short runs between chips. | |
| Sound drops out for split second every few minutes..... You might try these steps in the link.https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/high-dpc-isr-latency/0bbe509a-54ac-4874-847d-7... | |
| o.k anybody know anything about shm-cd they claim there indistinguishable from the master? It has to do with the manufacturing process of the CD it’s still 44.1/16. It's another thing from JVC like XRCD. | |
| Sound drops out for split second every few minutes..... Could be background processes running in windows that's one of reasons I don't like using windows to stream music. You can Google how to optimize windows for audio playback might help and do what you said add one program at a time and monitor. |