For an average user who is not very tech savvy, wants a great sounding product and trouble-free operation, I'd definitely recommend the fidata server.
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However my server simply sounded better, but it took me years to get to this level of performance and it's still a PC with all its advantages and disadvantages. The server is fully tweaked based on industrial motherboard, low-power Xeon CPU, industrial ram, SLC industrial SSD for the OS, low-power low-rpm drive for music library, audio-grade sata cables for the drives, JCAT NET Card FEMTO for network, everything on linear power.įidata is a great sounding server, a big improvement over a standard PC or NAS.
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I compared it to my highly optimized PC media server running windows 2012 server and MinimServer as a media server software. The fidata server works with UPnP and OpenHome standards, so it was plug & play for my JPLAYStreamer renderer which is also OpenHome based. I used it as a media server only (via ethernet) with my JPLAYStreamer setup. Sugimori of Fidata visited me in my city. I've had the HFAS1-S10U server in my system in December 2016 after Mr. I'm dying to get MSB's new Renderer with Roon endpoint compatibility, as that might change the whole game (at least for me). That way, you can run Roon Core + HQplayer elsewhere, and use the Innuos as a network player.Īnd again, all this exercise was done routing the audio through USB ports. But perhaps Innuos can be convinced to put at least the "NAA" (player) portion of HQplayer in the units.
I haven't tried putting HQplayer into Innuos, as it's more of a closed system, and I didn't feel like hacking into it. There was a very slight improvement there indeed, and that surprised me a bit, since you'd figure not having something in the chain, even software, would be better.īut here's the fun bit: once I put SGM into "Roon Player" mode, and switched off the "Core" functionality (using a Core elsewhere on my network), that performance penalty was gone!
So, the tests were basically Roon playing directly into the MSB, versus Roon feeding HQplayer, with all the filtering and upsampling turned off, which then fed the MSB. I've done a few quicks tests with SGM on the MSB SELECT, which does not require (or like) upsampling.
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