24-Jan-2016, 06:59
Quote:Thanks for the replies.
You certainly have me curious about acquiring a NUC for faultless playback at all bitrates -- do you know of any forum dwellers who have tried a similar NUC solution to your own WITHOUT success? In essence, is your setup a reliable solution to the issues with AIR? I could easily repurpose the RAM from the QNAP and then get an M2.SSD for the operating system on the NUC....might be worth a go...
As Chris said, it is not hardware dependent but rather it is Win10. I can't say I know anyone else who is using NUC with Win10 and AIR. Please note on my current setup, AIR is working well with hardly (almost zero) any cases of white noise. But it may happen when switching from 44.1 or 96 to DSD64 or 192. This is rare, though.
Like Chris, I have encountered BSOD before but with the latest Win10 update and auto-update disabled, I don't experience BSOD anymore.
Before: Le200, KEF LS50, AQ Type4, NUC 5i5RYH/8GB/128GB M.2SSD, Roon, Win8.1/AIR2.1.3/RoonBridge, MM/AIR3/RoonBridge, QNAP TS-212P 5TB NAS, AQ NRG-X3
Now: KEF LS50W, NUC5i5RYH/8GB/128GB M.2SSD, Roon, QNAP TS-212P 5TB NAS,iFi iSilencer3.0+DC iPurifier+iPurifier2, Sonos ZP80+SPDIF iPurifier
Location: Cyberjaya, Malaysia
Now: KEF LS50W, NUC5i5RYH/8GB/128GB M.2SSD, Roon, QNAP TS-212P 5TB NAS,iFi iSilencer3.0+DC iPurifier+iPurifier2, Sonos ZP80+SPDIF iPurifier
Location: Cyberjaya, Malaysia
