I think it is important too for this, what was the used source sampleratefamily, 44 or 48.
On ālittleā chain still listening to new Sync-Ls/AD7EC2/DSD256x48 
[That little chain right now: Airport Express Gen 1 (FW 7.6.1) feeding via TOS Pi4&Hifiberry Digi+ IO feeding HQP Desktop on Ubuntu feeding PI400 with Hifiberry Digi2 Pro (running RopieeeXL) via NAA feeding DAC via USB or TOS. PI400 with RopieeeXL allows to switch between several āapplicationsā very comfortable incl. feeding DAC via TOS or HAT. By using Airport Express 1 ALAC is guaranteed ] Ah, switching HQP Filters with HQPD Control of course.
(Next step: quit Roon again as for my usage scenario (streaming) not needed.)
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Has anyone tried the new XFi SDM - SDM setting? Jussi describes it as extreme fidelity medium bandwidth. I am loving it! Let me know your experience.
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I am using āXFiā now and I think it is better than either āwideā or āNarrowā. The difference is subtle but it is there.
Agreed. And a little subtle here and a little more there and all of a sudden it adds up to Wow! Thatās the high-end.
I use HQPlayer for this very reason. He regularly improves filters, modulators, integrators, and converters. Itās like getting an updated DACā¦especially when use a NOS DAC.
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The more I listen to XFi the less I think it is subtle. Jussi said it well, extreme high fidelity. I have not done a/b comparisons, but i immediately notice that everything is more present. Subtly is what makes the difference between good wine and great wine. XFi brings out the great wine.
Hm, this āRoon Radioā I like a lot. AI from Amazon is pretty strong too imo, however myself happy with this Roon AI. Not happy at all with Apple Music AI. Apple doing mistakes if Artistās names are the same, etc, etcā¦However Apple did buy this new AI for musicā¦Roon Radio only reason for my usage scenario (streaming) to keep Roon.
It is my new normal! Love it! Big difference, seems more musical and full!
Cheers,
My current settings for a Spring 3. I use hires for the Nx filter. Really pushing my little 8th gen i3 to the limit! Any tips on upgrading the cooling on a NUC? 80C is fine, right? 
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I pity that CPU 
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You can get some alternative cases for a NUC. But NUCs are a bit tricky since they are very tightly packed to make them as small as possible. So if you are building a fresh, going a bit larger form factor, such as Mini-ITX or Micro-ATX make cooling much easier.
It will thermal throttle if it gets too hot, so at most you will start getting drop-outs if it happens.
So far I have not heard of anybody who would have burnt a CPU. Although running a big CPU without any cooling attached would be very risky.
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YMMV , but I can report that I have had an issue from Day One with Roon connected to HQPlayer in which the first track of any album is always skipped, and randomly other tracks would just get skipped.
BUT, with the latest Roon update, I havenāt had a single track skipped yet. Everyoneās system is different, but for me, itās the update Iāve long been waiting for, finally.
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A day or two ago Iāve caught Steven Wilson Daily Mix playlist in Roon.
Canāt stop Prog parade again, hahaha !
Blessed be the poly-sinc-short-mp / 7ECv2@256x48 !
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Rather than try to cool the 8th gen i3, I think you should upgrade it to a newer i5 or i7.
So for reference and because someday Iād like to get past DSD256 with a good nos dacā¦
Mind you Iām only going to 48k DSD256 and Iām using a microATX board with a large D15 noctua cooler (temps never got above 65) and a gpu w/cuda, but the build I just threw together is so far very stable and temps are very good. The machine is down in my office so Iām not worried about size or the little bit of fan noise it makes.
ā¦since my newer hackintosh that is running a core i9 9900k was stripped of cuda support on 10.14 due to apples silly games with nVidia, and now on 10.15.7 no longer supports hqp 4.17.1, I had to come up with a more future proof serverā¦ almost 7 years and we still have windows 10ā¦ with mac weāve had 10.10, 10.11, 10.12, 10.13, 10.14, 10.15, 11, and now 12! 
Windows 10 will be supported until Oct 2025. By then we be at macOS 15 or 16ā¦ 
ā¦ I decided to re-purpose some parts from a previous hackintoshā¦ Threw it in all together in a box with a 512ssd, a 10tb exos drive for storage, 7th gen i5 7600k with an overclock to 4.7GHz, 16GB ram and an old GTX Titan X on a Striped down version of Win10 (all bloatware and crap removed). I figure I should be future proofed for a bit.
It was a bit slower than the i9 RoonServer on mac when it came to analyzing the libraryā¦ took ~2 days for ~100000 tracks. It just finished a bit ago and I just gave it a torture test for a bit using a 192k/24 w/poly-sinc-gauss-xla ASDM7ECv2 48kDSD256. That combo really loads up the cpu and the gpu. There werenāt any dropouts but I now kinda wish I had splurged for the i7 7700k back when I bought this processorā¦ I wouldāve had a bit more wiggle room. Without cuda this would be a no go with this filter and modulator combo. But with other combos, lately itās been SincLI and GuassHiRes lp, itās much less taxing on the gpu and cpuā¦ ususally at or below 60% on cpu and 10-20 on gpu.
I have it set up headless and it boots with auto login and starts RoonServer and HQP. Now that it is all configured, I access it from remote desktop from other my other PCās, hackintoshes and even iDevices via the microsoft remote desktop app. I use the HQPDcontrolv4 on the the iDevices to change HQP filters. Any major hqp config changes I just use remote desktop.
Hereās a few screenshots for temp and usageā¦
poly-sinc-gauss-xla ASDM7ECv2 48kDSD256
poly-sinc-gauss-xla ASDM7ECv2 48kDSD512 for reference using null output (looks like this would have dropouts! Need a newer gen processor, but temps are very good!)
Once again, not sure about dropouts but as far as usage and temps here is a null output pass of the filter you used (left side is AMSDM7EC 512+fs and right side is non EC)
Not sure why, maybe @jussi_laako can explain it, but the non EC seems less efficient?
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Null output will just run processing at maximum speed, so it doesnāt tell whether you are going to have drop-outs. At least some cores should stick to 100%.
Not really, it just doesnāt contain pieces that could be sensibly distributed to more than one core per modulator.
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So who is going to be the first to test HQP on an M1 Ultra Mac Studio?
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Well, since HQPlayer is really gated by single core speed, at least when using the better ECv2 modulators, I donāt see how the M1 Ultra is going to make a huge difference. The Performance Cores are more plentiful in the M1 Ultra, but they arenāt faster.
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