01-Oct-2014, 17:36
I've been running Voyage MPD (it's a Debian-based distro) for a week or so on my old Asus Eeebox PC. I didn't want to trash the hard disk (which has Windows 8 loaded and I've been running jriver on it with Fidelizer to optimise the OS. - works well), so I'm booting off a USB stick and avoiding the hard disk, which is probably still spinning and causing noise. It's a temporary test and I want to see whether it sounded better with a Linux-based solution before forking out money for a Cubox.
Well it's been a success. It's marginal whether the Windows 8/Jriver with Fidelizer sounds better or worse than Voyage MPD. Fidelizer definitely makes a difference to a Windows machine, but if pushed I'd say the Voyage MPD system has the advantage sonically. I have a few problems though - one of which is the USB outputs on the Voyage-booted system seem to have randomly-assigned UUIDs on boot up. Another issue is the Linux kernel seems to get confused on restoring the box from sleep mode. I'm hoping both these problems might go away if I change hardware.
Well it's been a success. It's marginal whether the Windows 8/Jriver with Fidelizer sounds better or worse than Voyage MPD. Fidelizer definitely makes a difference to a Windows machine, but if pushed I'd say the Voyage MPD system has the advantage sonically. I have a few problems though - one of which is the USB outputs on the Voyage-booted system seem to have randomly-assigned UUIDs on boot up. Another issue is the Linux kernel seems to get confused on restoring the box from sleep mode. I'm hoping both these problems might go away if I change hardware.
