Quietening my listening room whilst keeping HQ Player

[andybob (Andrew Cox)]

@tahsu

And, is there a machine to aspire to in terms of Roon and HQ Player, is it just a good desktop, but squiraled away in another room?

Pretty much. This is my music server build from 4 years ago:

When playback NativeDSD or HQplayers' DSD512, R2R ladder (Holo spring dac) vs pure 1 bit converter (T+A DAC8 DSD), which is genuine?

Self made: CoolerMaster Elite 110 mini ITX case i7 7700 ASRock H270M ITX 8Gb GSkill 2133 RAM 256Gb Samsung M.2 960 EVO Gigabyte GTX-970 ITX Corsair SF600 PSU Music files on a 1Tb Samsung EVO 840.

These days I wouldn’t bother with the ITX form factor, just use a normal case. I run Ubuntu Desktop with HQP Desktop and Roon Server. Since that build I added a 5GB HDD for more music storage. These days I’d make that an SSD.

There is no monitor or keyboard on this machine. After installing the OS I communicate with it via terminal and Jump Desktop from my desktop PC and iPad.