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simoncn · 17-11-2013, 18:52

(17-11-2013 18:34)DavidHB Wrote: What is interests me is that Steve and his friend got what they felt were significant audio improvements when the drive in the Synology was changed to an SSD. I'm at a loss to understand how this could be, unless, perhaps, the SSD firmware allows it to work better with the bus on the Synology, and thus feed a 'better' audio stream to its Ethernet port.

The other thought (which was implicit in some of the responses to Steve's report in the forum thread to which he linked) is that the results may have something to do with the architecture of his system. The PS Audio DAC with add-in network 'bridge' represents a very different approach from the Linn DS/DSM models which I think at least three of the responders on this thread are using; some posters on the other thread were even suggesting that there is an audible difference between different versions of the bridge firmware.

What is not in doubt (and Simon has been saying this all along) is that MinimServer, even when doing WAV24 transcoding, does not require massive hardware resources to run well - one of the many feathers in its cap.

David

The audio stream data is taken from the contents of the file with wav24 transcoding applied. Nothing in the disk or bus would change this data.

However, it's possible that the TCP/IP message sequence (buffering, retries, etc.) could be affected by disk and bus issues. Perhaps this is what you meant by a "better" audio stream. For most renderers, this shouldn't make any difference because the renderer will put the network data into an internal buffer before feeding it to the DAC. Perhaps the PS Audio DAC/Bridge is more sensitive to TCP-level differences than other renderers.