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[Audioseduction]

When I upsample to 2xDSD I hear clicks. I have increased the buffering to 500 milliseconds and that had no effect. I also set the prebuffering to 20 seconds and no change. I have an Intel Celeron based mini pc as a server.

[Awesome Donkey]

I have an Intel Celeron based mini pc as a server.

This is probably why, the Celeron is likely too weak to handle DSD conversions on-the-fly. It'd be especially worse with multichannel conversions.

DSD conversions like PCM to DSD or DSD to DSD (e.g. DSD64/1xDSD upsampled to DSD128/2xDSD) are some of the most resource intensive tasks MC does, and it's not going to work very well doing those on-the-fly conversions on weaker systems with weaker/lower end CPUs, like those with Celeron CPUs. If the system can't handle the conversion on-the-fly, it'll appear to have "click" or "glitch" issues indicating the system can't keep up.

[Audioseduction]

I thought so. What is the best Intel cpu to use in a nook for heavy DSD upsampling?

[Audioseduction]

Come on, no help on hardware recommendations? 

[Awesome Donkey]

Honestly? I'm not really sure. I know a Intel Core-i7 is definitely good enough and *should* handle any DSD conversion, as that's what I use. I'm fairly sure an Intel Core-i5 would suffice as well, but I don't have any machines with one of those to test it so don't take my word for it.

Intel Core-i3 and AMD Ryzen CPUs I definitely wouldn't know if they're "up to the task" when it comes on on-the-fly DSD conversions. I would suspect the newer AMD Ryzen 5/7/9 3000 series of CPUs would suffice too, but again, don't take my word for it. Maybe somebody else who does heavy DSD conversions can chime in on the discussion.

[BryanC]

Another option is to buy more disk space and stack the converted 2xDSD files. That will be a lot cheaper than building a new rig.

[Audioseduction]

Thanks for the replies! I may look into a fanless setup using an i7 CPU.