Surely if it’s exFAT it’d be a thinner sound?
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Well, to each his own, but a bit is a bit. Have someone switch the source drives back and forth blind to you and see if you can hear the difference. Might be worth the time.
Try it if you dont believe it . If you dont hear a difference, then fine. You dont need a SSD, dont need any formating to exFAT and it will be much cheaper.
The Kingston SSD has a possible sound advantage in not having any hardware-based encryption, meaning less processing. I have no proof of this bettering the sound quality, just heard it from a guy working at Linn products.
The Kingston SSD has a possible sound advantage in not having any hardware-based encryption, meaning less processing. I have no proof of this bettering the sound quality, just heard it from a guy working at Linn products.
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I didn’t say I didn’t believe it. Have you tried a test with someone else’s assistance switching the source drives without your knowledge of which one you’re listening to? I think you should do this and report back.Try it if you dont believe it . If you dont hear a difference, then fine. You dont need a SSD, dont need any formating to exFAT and it will be much cheaper.
The Kingston SSD has a possible sound advantage in not having any hardware-based encryption, meaning less processing. I have no proof of this bettering the sound quality, just heard it from a guy working at Linn products.
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...some ears hear better.
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He could just be pulling your leg.Try it if you dont believe it . If you dont hear a difference, then fine. You dont need a SSD, dont need any formating to exFAT and it will be much cheaper.
The Kingston SSD has a possible sound advantage in not having any hardware-based encryption, meaning less processing. I have no proof of this bettering the sound quality, just heard it from a guy working at Linn products.
It takes roughly 1 millisecond to read 1 Megabyte of data from an SSD (link below) - a really fast eyeblink is about 100 milliseconds for comparison which will read many FLAC-encoded or lossless songs. So, an entire song read into memory from the SSD in a 100 milliseconds or an eyeblink.
Your music app has barely had time to clench as that song was RAMmed into it. Hardware decryption (why is it encrypted?? other than to boost the Linn guy's story) would add a few hundred milliseconds more. There are other things that can cause latency and jitter in an under-resourced system, but it's not the SSD. Whether the SSD is formatted in exFAT, NTFS, APFS, ext4, XFS, btrfs, ZFS, whatever -- it doesn't matter since that's just arranging sequences of bits on the SSD and is already included in the timings above.
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So, when you turn it so the logo spells MiiW, do you get kitty sounds?
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