Looking to tweak!!

[agent_kith]

I fully agree that fine-tuning (cupset, RAMDisk, DSD-Kernel) significantly improves SQ. But there is one more improving thing: this is the loading and operation of the player in RAM. I managed to do this with the help of the site: https://habr.com/ru/post/253759. Some player settings don't work, but SQ is amazing.

Willl google translate that later tonight and see what it is. Will let you know later hopefully.

Running SnakeOil in RAM is something @"agent_kith" should consider.  My Linux is too limited to try this myself.

You can actually boot the USB ISO completely in memory, and even make write persistent after reboot (Rufus or some other tool make it easier now). This is a good tweak. and if memory serves different USB brands, and ports do have differences. This is done before USB filtering products, so who knows what other benefits this can bring?

Or even boot a PC diskless - OS is loaded via a NAS off the network (this is the first thing I have done)... Hopefully I will be able to introduce these tweaks back in simple steps (or a wiki walkthrough)...