So far we are not aware of any limitations at all, but i generally would advise the 'dumber' the drive the better - this is also true of external USB storage drives as well. The more features and software they claim to have (like automatic backing up etc) only get in the way or interfere.
Mk3 & Next-Gen: what's the difference?
- Thread starter Stephen Healy
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We are getting close now, so yes I would hope not far into Q1.
I’d find it helpful if you could go into more detail on the apparent change in design philosophy: you historically argued that higher powered CPU’s were inherently noisier and you therefore chose a purist approach in minimising processing power of Sense.
You now turn that on its head by arguing that the new power supply design resolves the noisy CPU issue. It franlky feels like you are bowing to Roon and their requirements more than anything else or plan to annouce future DSP plug-ins. Using Sense, can you pls elaborate further on sonic benefits over the previous generation?
Specifically my concern is that in similar vein to the Mac Mini developments, earlier versions actually had better audiophile characteristics.
You now turn that on its head by arguing that the new power supply design resolves the noisy CPU issue. It franlky feels like you are bowing to Roon and their requirements more than anything else or plan to annouce future DSP plug-ins. Using Sense, can you pls elaborate further on sonic benefits over the previous generation?
Specifically my concern is that in similar vein to the Mac Mini developments, earlier versions actually had better audiophile characteristics.
The historic choice of CPUs was not based on speed, it was based on power consumption. The situation simply now is that there are generations of i3 and i7 that consume similarly very small amounts of power, but offer better speeds so is therefore simply more efficient. This is the underlying rule of many electronics and constantly improving efficiencies in terms of relative speed/power.
On the point of Sense, are you referring to the current Sense 3 platform versus the previous 2.x generation?
Thanks Stephen,
I was referring to comparing both on SQ with the latest Sense application. As to the efficiency discussion: is Sense 3 more computationally intense than Sense 2x? Historically the leaner code structure was promotes as an advantage over Room and I have generally found the difference to be significant
I was referring to comparing both on SQ with the latest Sense application. As to the efficiency discussion: is Sense 3 more computationally intense than Sense 2x? Historically the leaner code structure was promotes as an advantage over Room and I have generally found the difference to be significant
We use accuraterip.com as a list of offset values for drives that should work:
We do not have an approved list just yet, but I would perhaps avoid drives that claim to work with only specific operating systems. If anything, ones that work with Mac should be fine since Mac is essentially Linux-based...
There is not huge difference in terms of computational demands (some parts were actually more efficient), but keep in mind that is all relative to the speed of the CPU etc. So, if we can keep the power consumption as low as before whilst increasing processing speeds, its win-win in terms of low noise floor and system latency/efficiency and overall smoothness/speed of the system for users.