02-Mar-2017, 12:34
(01-Mar-2017, 23:01)Antoine Wrote: To clarify; I will place this PC inside the 'low board' in which all the AV/Stereo components are placed. It should fit, like it did with my previous music server. This one is smaller.
It'll have two ethernet NIC's so I can keep using the "Romaz" bridged (or routed setup in my case which I believe to be even more efficient as the SMS-200 is then on a separate subnet and will only receive the traffic it's meant to receive, since there's no other devices on this subnet).
The "dual network leg" chain will be (I'll update the system diagram later this week ):
music server (ethernet 1) -> AQ Diamond ethernet cable -> SMS-200 -> Curious USB 20cm cable -> Mutec -> Shunyata ΞTRON Anaconda Digital XLR AES/EBU -> Devialet 250 Pro
music server (ethernet 2) -> Supra CAT 8 ethernet -> FMC -> fiber cable to upstairs -> FMC -> Supra CAT 8 -> switch -> router -> Internet
(I may experiment with the EMO Systems EN-HD70 LAN isolator in leg 1 or 2).
The new server will be powered by my Paul Hynes SR7-EHD-MR4 using the 12V high current output (max 8A which is more than twice I need) as the thin-ITX motherboard has a direct 12V input.
Of course I'll have the option to insert an audiophile switch or some future "ethernet regen" in 'leg 1' to the SMS-200. There's also the option to upgrade the clocks on the mainboard and/or ethernet NIC using, for example, the SOTM SCLK-EX clock board (http://www.sotm-audio.com/sotmwp/english...m/sclk-ex/).
Will play with the cheap but good performing SATA cables I mentioned earlier and I will power the SSD using a separate LPSU or perhaps a LPS-1 (though that's a bit expensive to just just power a SSD of course).
Of course I'll install Windows Server 2012 R2 plus AO (Audiophile Optimizer) again.
Nice.
May I suggest to install AO on Server 2016. Some say that AO on WS2016 in GUI-Mode sounds better than WS2012 in CORE-Mode. And licences for WS2016 are cheap on ebay. I would have done it myself yet...but time, oh time...
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"Oh, you can buy the other. But then it is a cost intensive learning process"
berlin