The operating system is a custom build of Windows 10. Only the basic motherboard and CPU are off the shelf parts. No fans!Īdditionally a custom designed oven controlled clock is incorporated to ensure perfect timing. Passively cooling with heat pipes and heatsinks.Each power supply being dedicated to the task at hand. Building proprietary power supplies for the crucial components.Fully optimising the operating system to only run the processes necessary for HQPlayer and roon to work.The Sound Galleries development team have solved these issues in three crucial ways: The more demanding these computationally intensive tasks are the greater the risk of generating unwanted noise within the music server that would pollute the sound. HQPlayer’s sophisticated digital filtration, using advanced digital signal processing and roon’s sourcing and presentation of all relevant information and music, are both extremely demanding on internal computing resources. These other works can be from your own music library or one of the lossless streaming services such as Tidal, which are perfectly integrated into roon. It will show you all the meaningful connections to other works by similar artists or composers. The roon software uses a sophisticated database to build information about the artist or composer whose music your are playing. The HQPlayer software used as an audio engine can look ahead into each music track while it’s playing, discover all the artefacts that were introduced in the recording process and eliminate them!

This has been designed around the desires of people who are passionate about music, rather than to please computer nerds. Your interaction with the Sound Galleries Music server will typically be with an iPad or iPhone running the roon app. In other words just like an amplifier or any other piece of HiFi equipment in your system. You turn on the music server with a button on the front and turn it off by pressing the same button. Almost all electronic devices are “smart” nowadays, just like your phone. It doesn’t feel like using a computer anymore than your car or refrigerator though. The Sound Galleries music server has been built around computer architecture.

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