Announcing Snakeoil Measurements 1.3.0

[hkphantomgtr]

yep, hpet activated in bios. and have option to choose within SO.

I have to say though, I did a very quick listen in on some classical between hpet and tsc, my non-tuned ears couldn't hear a difference haha

Good good good.

In my system, roughly speaking, for the timbre and sound stage, hpet vs tsc is a bit like the silver interconnect wire vs copper interconnect wire.

For the overall presentation, when playing band music or orchestral music, tsc is like a drunken band or an orchestra without conductor.  The mood may be better but the beat, the punch and the structure are like an amateur band.

I've compared hpet and tsc in several scenarios, e.g. using SO as a player (MPD to me), or as a file server for another SO, or Lumin and some other streamers.  The results are consistent.  It's quite a surprise to me that TSC affects even that PC is only using as a NFS file server.

Besides, I've also compared them in a ubuntu desktop pc I used it to watch netflix, youtube and files on TV, and connecting to my 2 channels.  Not only the audio quality tells the difference, and it's interesting that the difference in video quality is also significant.  So to the ordinary kernel vs lowlatency kernel.  Yet this pc is not running with LTS ubuntu, no official RT kernel is available.

Thanks for the comparison thoughts, will do some more testing on the weekend and report back

You're welcome, take your time, enjoy