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Hope the wait isn't too much longer. Mine just arrived after a two and half month wait. And so far, so good!

Out for delivery!

It's a metadata tag supported by most audio formats. If you organize records by performer then album (e.g. "Philip Glass/Solo (2024)"), then the "compilation" tag deals with the special case of multiple performers (like this album: https://www.discogs.com/release/13935860-Various-Basic-Guitar). In that case, set that tag on every track to True, and put the album in a Compilations directory.

BTW, if you don't use jukebox software which indexes metadata tags, it becomes harder to search. You can work around it by following a naming convention (e.g. "Philip Glass/Solo (2024, Philip Glass)" or "Yehudi Menuhin - Sonatas & Partitas (1957, Johann Sebastian Bach)", but it's a lot easier to just use tags and a simpler structure.

Here is a fantastic metadata tag editor for Mac: https://www.nightbirdsevolve.com/meta/

I don't know of an equally powerful equivalent for Windows.

Sorry, but you found some body hair

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--9kqhzQ-8Q

It's probably hanging out with my Sony 3.5mm Stereo ext cable. When you find their hideout let me know.

Do you feel the tonality is bit too gray-scaled? Not sure if I explain it right but very songs feel like singing from the same singer... mayb it reveals too much idk. I don't feel it while spinning CDs.

Anyways, back to hiding in my bunker.

@Raicorl what are you using to power the 10Gtek converters?

Allo Shanti

Is it pure silver ??Never heard about it

Grand Palladium is a blend of copper, silver, silver-plated copper, and palladium-plated copper. Grand Silver Palladium adds a strand of 2K Verite Silver to each channel. https://shop.zmfheadphones.com/collections/cables/products/grand-palladium

https://www.superbestaudiofriends.org/index.php?find-new/profile-posts

could you make a short post with the steps for the rest of us (me)?

@JayC this is the guide I followed: https://superbestaudiofriends.org/index.php?threads/hqplayer-upsampling-runs-on-a-pi4-invigorate-your-digital-audio.11231/

@Scott Kramer but how do you get into the OS to set the wifi settings? I know nothing about Linux, other than I can install Ropiee...

@dasman66 I believe this is OS-dependent. I use moOde and recall it started with a temporary WiFi network that I could connect to and perform the initial setup. But I'm still not sure it would work for your setup because it first needs to detect that the Ethernet is unplugged, I think (do not have a broken Ethernet so simply not sure).

I just went to the ropiee website to see if it would create its own temporary hotspot (like moode... I had forgotten it did that on my office setup). Looks like the only usb wifi support is for the realtek chipset... gotta find that now...

The included streamer does sound good, but imo Pi2AES over AES/EBU has an edge with detail. LAN sounds a bit more smoothed over to me. Plus, I'm interested in eventually getting into oversampling via HQPlayer.

What did NOT make a difference was the Aune XC1. I can reliably tell the difference blind (testing myself) and using the Aune as a clock sounds very slightly more compressed. Come on man, you have ONE JOB.

I'll have to try again with the iFi Neo Stream, optical box and i2S out. That ought to be pretty good, too, but from memory I didn't hear huge differences and maybe even preferred LAN. But, then, I really dislike ABing digital stuff--find it maddeningly hard to parse--and my MacBook is too old to experiment with upsampling, etc. via Roon.

What's next... a BeePre2 kit, an end-game tube headamp, or a Soekris DAC2541? Next big audio purchase will be in August as a birthday gift to myself.

We had prepared everything for shipment and printed the labels, but one of the power supplies did not arrive that day. Everything is shipping today and should be traceable tomorrow.

Just got an update that USPS expects to deliver Thursday, thanks @Michael Kelly !