Thanks Antoine.
What is interesting, in my opinion, is the fact that Romaz is busy trying to reproduce, on his server, all the improvements which have been brought by SGM to its SGM 2015, namely:
The SGM 2015 is supposed to be connected directly to the DAC, and we can therefore understand all the efforts brought on these items. On the other side, Romaz is using a sMS-200 as an NAA renderer, and I am therefore asking myself whether he is not doing the work twice, especially in the context of the near release of an sMS-200 Ultra which is scheduled to land in April, equipped with a very stable clock. I have read your answer to this question a few pages before and I am not asking this again. I still have doubts of my own.
So the point remains, in my opinion, to decide up to which point it is reasonable and useful to bring those optimizations on a music server connected to a high quality NAA renderer. I guess everyone will judge based on his/her own skills, and I appreciate that you are sharing yours, and his/her listening capabilities.
The first test for me will be to build a new server and to try to listen whether I can hear improvements in my system together with the Paul Hynes LPSU I am expecting in a few weeks now.
Thanks again.
What is interesting, in my opinion, is the fact that Romaz is busy trying to reproduce, on his server, all the improvements which have been brought by SGM to its SGM 2015, namely:
- high stability clock, powered by a low noise PSU, to replace the motherboard's clock
- low noise PSU for the motherboard and the CPU
- independant low noise for the SSD
- aso...
The SGM 2015 is supposed to be connected directly to the DAC, and we can therefore understand all the efforts brought on these items. On the other side, Romaz is using a sMS-200 as an NAA renderer, and I am therefore asking myself whether he is not doing the work twice, especially in the context of the near release of an sMS-200 Ultra which is scheduled to land in April, equipped with a very stable clock. I have read your answer to this question a few pages before and I am not asking this again. I still have doubts of my own.
So the point remains, in my opinion, to decide up to which point it is reasonable and useful to bring those optimizations on a music server connected to a high quality NAA renderer. I guess everyone will judge based on his/her own skills, and I appreciate that you are sharing yours, and his/her listening capabilities.
The first test for me will be to build a new server and to try to listen whether I can hear improvements in my system together with the Paul Hynes LPSU I am expecting in a few weeks now.
Thanks again.