Esoteric K-05X or Bryston BDA-3/BDP-3

[adol290]

Originally Posted by ruffoc

hi adol290. Thanks for your feedback. What type of music server did you build?

Hello,

I bought an HDPLEX H5 case with the 100 watt linear power supply with 250W HiFi DC-ATX
(They currently offer at 200 watt linear power supply with 300W HiFi DC-ATX ).

ASUS ROG Maximus VIII Gene mATX LGA1151
INTEL I5-6600 3.30GHZ Skylake
G.SKILL Ripjaws V 16GB DDR4-2400
SAMSUNG 850 EVO M.2 2280 250GB - for the boot drive
SAMSUNG 850 EVO 500GB for the music files.
HQplayer software

To connect from the server to my K-03x
2- High end silver USB from Audio Sensibility in Canada
IFI micro – iUSB3.0

Cost in total was a bit less that the retail of the BDP-2.

I turn off all up sampling and filters on my K-03x. With hqplayer you have
a choice of about 20 different filters and a huge selection of up sampling to PCM or DSD.
You can also use Roon as the front end with hqplayer doing the up sampling.

I find I have much more control and tweaking options with this setup.