(16-Feb-2024, 08:28 PM)Snoopy8 Wrote: It has taken some time, but I finally got to test the difference between running LMS and Squeezelite on 1 box versus running LMS on 1 box and Squeezelite on a second box. Running on 2 boxes produced a noticeable quieter background, with better detail. Thank you @hkphantomgtr for suggesting this.
For reference, LMS 8.4.1 running on my Mercury V2 Streamer (CM4) with Bookworm and Squeezelite on Intel NUC with Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS. Both running SO 1.3 and with my own real time kernels. Before someone asks, the more powerful NUC sounds better than the Mercury, hence it is the end point.
Did you try the effect of different clocksources in the endpoint NUC, ie TSC vs Hpet?