Mnyb wrote: > He he is it not another trend by the golden eared to not have sufficient > buffers and try make the PC behave as much as possible as a bad old CD > player and stream continiusly with very small buffers ?
Interesting observation Mnyb. I really wonder who started this idea about small buffers or even shutting off all buffers and essentially polling the CPU to feed data. I commented on this weirdness with the 'JPLAY software back in 2013' (http://archimago.blogspot.ca/2013/06/measurements-part-ii-bit-perfect.html) as this was the recommendation of "practitioners" of the software back then... You'd think that adding to CPU load (from something like <3% with decent buffering to >15% with tiny buffers when I tested) would "logically" increase "noise" and "jitter" given how concerned some folks seem to be about all this stuff in computer audio. I'm guessing they're still of that mindset these days. Of course, none of this made any audible difference to me nor measurable difference even with null testing. To add insult to injury, hilarious that JPLAY still had the 'same bug in 2015' (http://archimago.blogspot.ca/2015/08/measurements-audiophile-sound-and.html) as reported in 2013 with 24/48 Kernel Streaming! Good deal at a mere 99Euros when foobar can be had for free :-). Archimago's Musings: (archimago.blogspot.com) A 'more objective' audiophile blog. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Archimago's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2207 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=104227 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
