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How does your HD sound?
Never mind the bitrate palaver
... looking into NAS drives I came across this article:
http://www.enjoythemusic.com/hificri...to_storage.htm
If you haven't already come across it, basically the writers argue that different brands of hard drives can have significantly different sound signatures.... as if cable debates weren't enough already
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I don’t know about different hard drives, but I recently upgraded from a HDD to an SSD on my Macmini and the sound quality I’m getting from my digital music library has certainly gone up a peg imho.Originally Posted by mikmas
Never mind the bitrate palaver
... looking into NAS drives I came across this article:
http://www.enjoythemusic.com/hificri...to_storage.htm
If you haven't already come across it, basically the writers argue that different brands of hard drives can have significantly different sound signatures.... as if cable debates weren't enough already
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Lower power usage may be a reason.
It's certainly possible. Noise can get everywhere
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Did that a good while back - mainly for the speed increase and general performance boost...
The articles also considers the difference between HDD and SSD (not always favourably for the latter in their, albeit limited, tests)
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I did it for exactly the same reasons and the speed improvement was pretty massive, the SQ improvement to the music was incidental.
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That could also be down to a lack of mechanical noise at the source.
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If you are running say a laptop directly into a DAC then I can believe it makes a difference. I did some tests years ago looking at how the USB power supply was modulated when the HDD was performing head seeks and ways to eliminate that modulation. The only way was to separate the 5v line completely. As for a NAS I’m highly sceptical especially if there is no ground connection between end points.
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Inclined to agree. The ifi silencer does a good job with attached drives in reducing noise, for a small outlay. Typically £50.
Ive 2 and they have made a difference to me anyway.
Their usb purifier goes a step further. But is a fair bit pricier. I've one of those too.
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Oh my god! There's nothing wrong with the bidet is there?
“Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never abused it, except on the side of mercy".
“You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.”
"You don't have free will. You have the appearance of free will.”
“There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it's all about the information!”
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Interesting stuff ... but USB and/or drive noise issues isn't really the question.
What these guys are claiming is that they noted improved SQ results using different brands of drives solely in the context of NAS usage over ethernet.
Seems like a bit of a wild claim but perhaps someone else has experienced similar improvements just by using a different brand (i.e. Samsung v Corsair, etc...)
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Might have helped if they had done their initial comparison blind, but they don't and then they jump straight to the conclusion that something else must be going on.
Having established early on that these two NAS units did indeed sound quite different,
They've not established that in any way.
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