05-Mar-2017, 14:57
@Gui, yes I hope you're right! The Windows 2016 support in AO is still in beta and a large part of Phil's customers uses Roon so I'm hoping he'll find a way. Of course 2016 is the future as 2012 will become end of life/end of support some day.
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Updates; yesterday afternoon the brightness/unnatural edge was gone again. Now yesterday I did receive and install the Coboc 18" SATA cable, the "declared winner" of the cheap SATA cable test I discussed earlier but this does not yet explain why when using the previous same SATA cable performance was great one day after I powered down all devices connected to the Hynes PSU and not so one or a few days later. I haven't kept track when I exactly installed each cable when (I tried three cables) so I really need to do that to know what causes what. It could even be, besides the difference these SATA cables themselves make (yes I know it sounds crazy ) burn-in effects since with the Coboc installed now things sounded a tad dark. I'll just keep the Coboc cable in for now and also migrate that to the new music server. I'm sitting down for some music listening later this afternoon, who knows how it'll sound today.
Talking about this new music/Roon server; I should receive all the parts of the new server this coming week. The CPU perhaps early in the week after as this comes from the UK (second hand Ebay). I'll update this topic with some pictures of the build process.
I've ordered some parts to make a new DC cable (and some extra for any future "projects"), nothing really fancy. With the SR7 I received one high current cable (and three lower current ones) but I'd like to keep using that on the SMS-200 (lower resistance) so I'm going to make a new one for the music server. The SR7 has 4 pole XLR connectors and these plugs accept wire gauges up to AWG16.
2m Jantzen Silver teflon cable mono 16 Awg black
2m Jantzen Silver teflon cable mono 16 Awg red
2m Jantzen 6N copper Solid core 2*1.0 mm² (AWG17) speaker cable
2 x Neutrik NC4MXX BAG XLR plug 4p male (silver plated pins like in the plugs Hynes also supplies)
1 x Oyaide DC-2.5G (5.5x2.5mm DC plug)
Yesterday I hand twisted the black and red AWG 16 cables. Never done that before. I read that using a drill puts too much stress on the cable but that surely would have been quicker. Then I soldered the Neutrik plug on one side. Easy peasy! The Oyaide DC plug comes from Spain (EBay) so it will take a while before that'll arrive. I'll make the cable as short as possible (with a bit of margin) once everything is in the low board so I know exactly which lengths I need.
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Updates; yesterday afternoon the brightness/unnatural edge was gone again. Now yesterday I did receive and install the Coboc 18" SATA cable, the "declared winner" of the cheap SATA cable test I discussed earlier but this does not yet explain why when using the previous same SATA cable performance was great one day after I powered down all devices connected to the Hynes PSU and not so one or a few days later. I haven't kept track when I exactly installed each cable when (I tried three cables) so I really need to do that to know what causes what. It could even be, besides the difference these SATA cables themselves make (yes I know it sounds crazy ) burn-in effects since with the Coboc installed now things sounded a tad dark. I'll just keep the Coboc cable in for now and also migrate that to the new music server. I'm sitting down for some music listening later this afternoon, who knows how it'll sound today.
Talking about this new music/Roon server; I should receive all the parts of the new server this coming week. The CPU perhaps early in the week after as this comes from the UK (second hand Ebay). I'll update this topic with some pictures of the build process.
I've ordered some parts to make a new DC cable (and some extra for any future "projects"), nothing really fancy. With the SR7 I received one high current cable (and three lower current ones) but I'd like to keep using that on the SMS-200 (lower resistance) so I'm going to make a new one for the music server. The SR7 has 4 pole XLR connectors and these plugs accept wire gauges up to AWG16.
2m Jantzen Silver teflon cable mono 16 Awg black
2m Jantzen Silver teflon cable mono 16 Awg red
2m Jantzen 6N copper Solid core 2*1.0 mm² (AWG17) speaker cable
2 x Neutrik NC4MXX BAG XLR plug 4p male (silver plated pins like in the plugs Hynes also supplies)
1 x Oyaide DC-2.5G (5.5x2.5mm DC plug)
Yesterday I hand twisted the black and red AWG 16 cables. Never done that before. I read that using a drill puts too much stress on the cable but that surely would have been quicker. Then I soldered the Neutrik plug on one side. Easy peasy! The Oyaide DC plug comes from Spain (EBay) so it will take a while before that'll arrive. I'll make the cable as short as possible (with a bit of margin) once everything is in the low board so I know exactly which lengths I need.