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Playing music off a RAM disk, what are your impressions?
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(26-Jun-2020, 12:29 PM)Snoopy8 Wrote: Yes, EtherRegen is interesting and caused lots of controversy e.g. huge fight on Audiophile style, smaller fight on SNA.  Many people still say a switch is a switch...
It's all relative I guess... E.g. in this thread, I reckon RAM is an improvement, albeit only a slight one, whereas you say it's a significant improvement. For all I know when I try your track, I will get that significant difference. It's all about finding the baseline and our references against each other.

Once we establish the baseline, and know what the reference (Think of this as minimal requirements) is, then a switch is definitely not just a switch. To me anyway. The problem with the Internet is it's very hard to establish baselines. A computer is just a computer, things should sound the same. But it's not, try Snakeoil OS, try other OS, there is a clear difference...

Knowing there is a difference is just the beginning, identifying whether this difference is "better" or "worse" is hard.... This is why I am never into audio measurements, this is despite the fact my previous job of 10 years is all about measurements (meteorology and oceanography). All the measurements we can do are physical. Music is on a higher level than that. Quantifying music with physical units is always going to be a stretch, it's not going to work.
 
(26-Jun-2020, 12:29 PM)Snoopy8 Wrote: I use Gjeilo: North Country II which you can download from
http://www.2l.no/hires/
This track is quiet at the beginning (need to up volume). My favourite test track because the piano is very hard to get right, especially with the timbre and decay of the piano notes.
Coool. Hopefully I can try this track later this weekend.


(26-Jun-2020, 12:29 PM)Snoopy8 Wrote: Don't be too hard on your self. The Covid-19 has thrown many people off kilter and there are many people who have not done much in that time period other than watch with horror what has enfolded.  At least you guys in Perth can start leading more normal lives.  We in VIC are the leper colony!   Big Grin

Looking forward to getting 1.2.0.  I am still stuck on 16.04, my Ubuntu upgrade never worked; I could manually upgrade but saw no compelling need.
True that. Victoria is flaring up, hope you guys can get through it unscathed... It's always going to be good in WA, because frankly we simply do not have a big population, and only a small percentage uses the public transport.
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RE: Playing music off a RAM disk, what are your impressions? - by agent_kith - 26-Jun-2020, 02:41 PM

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