Tweaks

In an earlier article, we talked about how Jumbo Frames can improve music playback, and how the emotion connection is lost without it.

A curiosity happened in late September 2019. This was when I added the Ryzen 5 as the Snakeoil development server. The network between my NAS and the Ryzen are changed as such:

Bits are bits - and your computer playback will always be perfect. Right?

Do not answer that - the above is a rhetorical question.

No matter how good your computers are - once in a while you may find your computer is running fine one minute but suddenly crash in the next.

Usually I refrain from blogging computing technical stuffs on Snakeoil. This article will be a rare exception, today I would like to talk about bit rot. This is something you guys should aware of (but not alarmed).

Many tweaks in my audiophile journey are discovered by accident. In this blog we will talk about one of the best kept hifi secrets - phase.

So what is native playback? In essence it means the digital music files are played back in:

The Snakeoil tab contains several obscure configuration options, one of them would be the Change Priority. This control is used to redefine how CPU(s) juggle running processes, an example of how to set this up is shown here:

The review for the Uptone JS-2 has been delayed multiple times due to issues beyond my control. A series of unfortunate events that included my primary DAC developing a fault at the worst possible time. The fault turned out to be a dry joint in the high voltage transformer.

This is the JS-2 Linear Power Supply from UpTone Audio, recommended retail price (if buying