This GE USB cable kit comes with adapters from USB A male to just about every type of USB male connector, so a perfect compliment to the Corning USB with its USB A female socket
Amazon.com: GE USB 2.0 Cable Kit, 6-Ft USB Cable W/6 Assorted A/B USB Adaptors: Electronics
Will be doing further testing, but so far works very nicely between my Surface Pro 3 and Exasound E20 with no handshaking problems. The SP3 is very electrically noisy, so not surprisingly, the SQ improvement was big
I added some ferrites to the Corning USB cable but could not detect any difference in SQ from no ferrites
Sadly my i5 SP3 is not powerful enough to run Polysinc filter so have to use Polysinc - 2s. I found Primo RAM disk made a noticeable improvement when HQ Player directory was copied to RamDisk. Interestingly the SQ was better with the music staying on the SP3 SSD and NOT copied to the RamDisk, so only a small RamDisk is needed.
Unfortunately with my Exasound DAC JPlay is not a very workable option
How was the get together yesterday ? I wanted to come, but I was traveling from USA to Europe yesterday.
I brought back with me the John Swenson designed Uptone JS-2 dual LPS to power my Exasound plus another piece of equipment, may be the NAA side Fibre Media Converter
This week I hope to test Windows 10. I am thinking that recent Win 10 build 10041 has OS supervisor / scheduler modules that have roots in Xbox OS which may explain Win 10 performance improvement over Win 8 & 8.1
Win 10 will be the OS for future Xboxes, as well as for smartphones and tablets
A lot of testing to do this week !
Next week hope to be able to put the Asus P9X79 together. It will have
- 16 Gb 4 stick Corsair 2333 MHz memory
- Samsung Evo 850 SSD
- HD Plex LPS with 250 watt DC converter
Do you think it's worthwhile to put in a better Network Interface Card ? If so any suggestions ?