HQ Player device

[Rugby (aka Daniel or Big Dan)]

have a read of these 2 threads;

A NUC for Roon ROCK & HQPlayer

Hello All, I have been using ROON from the beginning it was launched… I have been using a MacMini since to run ROON, but i believe as my system has been growing it is time to make the next step on both a ROON ROCK computer and my endpoint… I will appreciate any suggestion to find the best choices for a “NUC/PC”, i want to have ROON ROCK, with the flexibility of possible HQplayer to do DSD512 and maybe have the chance to use it for watching 4k movies thru Netflix too! cause my MacMini just can…

Not able to get all filters to play at DSD512?

If you have a quad-core CPU, make sure you have “Pipeline SDM” enabled - this maximizes the core usage (on a dual-core it just increases overhead and thus has only negative impact). Using “Auto rate family” helps keeping load low as long as the DAC supports DSD also at 48-base rates. That is correct and as it should, because task manager shows 100% when all cores are at 100%. So if you have HyperThreading enabled on a quad-core CPU and have all the four cores loaded to 100%, but none of the vi…