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本帖最後由 vhs 於 2019-1-31 21:32 編輯
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"After, I started to use Fidelizer, Computer Audio Design scripts, until I got to Audiophile Optimizer, replacing Windows 8.1 with Server 2012R2 and then with Server 2016 (I tested all in Core and GUI modes), this with still unbeatable result on my system (I didn’t test Server 2019). For this, I needed a lot of reading and, after getting a course, I kept testing for myself. Windows Server 2016 made the system deliver more spatiality, better sense of time and space, larger soundstage and much more realism of timbres, voices, better scaling of instruments, which contributed to overall growth (and Core Mode even more than GUI Mode). I think that a mention to the operational system is very important, because it dictates the direction of all software performance. Even a stock Windows Server 2016 Standard GUI is better than Windows 8.1 with all CAD scripts.
If you use Windows Server 2016 Core Mode and Audiophile Optimizer, almost nothing must be done to get the same performance I got (and which I think is fairly good, given my experience with other systems and with real presentations). If you use a Windows Server 2016 GUI Mode and don’t use Audiophile Optimizer, at least some settings are interesting, such as disabling SSD/HDD caching, virtual memory, Firewall, Windows Defender, Windows sounds and OneDrive, and always remembering to use as few controllers as possible. Many things are written in the Audiophile Optimizer manual or can be easily located on the Internet. In my case, I haven’t done any of this, since Audiophile Optimizer does it all by itself (I still don’t know the Fidelizer interventions in depth, so I cannot speak properly).
To summarize everything that has been written so far about computers and operating systems, I say that for me, using one or two dedicated computers with Windows Server in Core mode is, by 2018, the best solution we can find in terms of sound quality. Nothing that I tested has even been able to be equated to a desktop computer with Windows Server as an operating system, a linear power supply and an audiophile USB card (and we can include a SATA audiophile cable as well), and the distance increases even more when using two computers, even if one of them isn't completely dedicated. But this, it’s good to stand out, only when the dedicated computer is the one that’s between the source (first computer) and the DAC, always. Reverse the roles, that is, put the dedicated computer at the beginning, with another device interposed, doesn’t seem so good. By 2019, I'm going to build a second dedicated computer, using well-selected components (specially JCAT Net FEMTO and USB FEMTO cards; I don't intend to continue in SOtM anymore) and trying to optimize the cost-benefit ratio. Only then, when I reach a level that I think is reasonable, I'll be able to afford the famous sMS-200 Ultra and UltraRendu to compare and test other software and gadgets like the ones I mentioned on my own system."
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