12-Feb-2017, 14:22
Captains log, star date 25942.5
It's been a busy two weeks, mostly due to work, so little time and energy for forums. Still, made time to implement some of the plans I had.
- received the two Supra CAT 8 cables. Used one to connect the music server to the FMC used in the path to the SMS-200 and the other between 2nd ethernet interface on the music server to my EMO Systems EN-HD70 LAN isolator and from there a short 25cm CAT7 cable to my upstairs switch. The music server is now isolated from the network, AC and other devices the best I can using stuff I already had.
- the upstairs switch is now powered by the SBooster BOTWS 12V LPSU since I still have it and wasn't using it elsewhere.
- bought a second hand but new and sealed 1TB Samsung 850 EVO SSD for the music server since I was running out of space
- created a dual boot Windows 10 Pro/Server 2012 R2 installation on it (the W10 partition and all music files were migrated from the previous SSD) and installed Audiophile Optimizer 2.20B4 after upgrading the AO 1.40 license. Reinstalled Roon (now 1.3 build 200) and migrated the Roon database to the WS2012R2 partition.
How does it sound, and what changed how? No idea, not yet anyway, just started listening 20 minutes ago. It sounds really great is all I know. Not very helpful I'm afraid!
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It's been a busy two weeks, mostly due to work, so little time and energy for forums. Still, made time to implement some of the plans I had.
- received the two Supra CAT 8 cables. Used one to connect the music server to the FMC used in the path to the SMS-200 and the other between 2nd ethernet interface on the music server to my EMO Systems EN-HD70 LAN isolator and from there a short 25cm CAT7 cable to my upstairs switch. The music server is now isolated from the network, AC and other devices the best I can using stuff I already had.
- the upstairs switch is now powered by the SBooster BOTWS 12V LPSU since I still have it and wasn't using it elsewhere.
- bought a second hand but new and sealed 1TB Samsung 850 EVO SSD for the music server since I was running out of space
- created a dual boot Windows 10 Pro/Server 2012 R2 installation on it (the W10 partition and all music files were migrated from the previous SSD) and installed Audiophile Optimizer 2.20B4 after upgrading the AO 1.40 license. Reinstalled Roon (now 1.3 build 200) and migrated the Roon database to the WS2012R2 partition.
How does it sound, and what changed how? No idea, not yet anyway, just started listening 20 minutes ago. It sounds really great is all I know. Not very helpful I'm afraid!
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