Quietening my listening room whilst keeping HQ Player

Yes Ubuntu Server would be the thing to try. Apart from time, it will cost $0 to try.

It can run DSD256 but the question is can it run EC modulators like you are used to. Probably not but you could try to find out. ASDM5 and ASDM7 (non EC) are still high quality modulators.

After you install Ubuntu it’s something like the below to get HQPlayer Embedded (different license to your Desktop license) and Roon Server. You could try Ubuntu Desktop and your existing HQP Desktop license on there maybe.

HQP Embedded on Ubuntu Focal:

sudo apt-get -y update

sudo apt-get -y dist-upgrade

sudo apt-get install alsa-utils

wget https://www.sonarnerd.net/src/focal/libgmpris_2.2.1-8_amd64.deb

sudo dpkg -i libgmpris_2.2.1-8_amd64.deb

Add following steps prior to installing hqplayerd package:

wget -q -O - https://repo.radeon.com/rocm/rocm.gpg.key | sudo apt-key add -

echo ‘deb [arch=amd64] Index of /rocm/apt/debian/ xenial main’ | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/rocm.list

sudo apt update

sudo apt-get -y update

sudo apt-get -y dist-upgrade

sudo wget https://www.signalyst.eu/bins/hqplayerd/focal/hqplayerd_4.25.2-85_amd64.deb

sudo dpkg -i hqplayerd_4.25.2-85_amd64.deb

sudo apt install -f ; sudo apt autoremove --purge ; sudo apt clean

systemctl enable hqplayerd;systemctl restart hqplayerd

sudo apt install -f (installs dependancies)

sudo reboot

Roon Server:

sudo apt install curl

sudo apt install -y cifs-utils

sudo apt-get install ffmpeg

curl -O http://download.roonlabs.com/builds/roonserver-installer-linuxx64.sh

chmod +x roonserver-installer-linuxx64.sh

sudo ./roonserver-installer-linuxx64.sh

sudo apt install -f (installs dependancies)

sudo reboot

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