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Re: HAL MS-3 Music Server and dspMusik digital crossover
« Reply #120 on: November 05, 2017, 01:58:11 PM »
If you have a big screen TV in the same room as the stereo and server you can just plug in a HDMI cable into the server and with the addition of a wireless mouse and keyboard you have control over the system with a minimal investment and very little added complexity. If room EQ is desired it can be done via the playback software in the server before it goes out the door to the DAC. Assuming the HAL server comes with WIN 10 Creator Edition you don't even need to use a factory supplied ASIO driver unless your PCM playback is at higher than a 192 sample rate as this rate and all lower rates are natively supported by the OS. I have full gapless playback all PCM data as well as DSD-DSF files via kernel streaming. 
 Very good sound and in my case the ability to kernel stream via the native WIN 10 driver was very audible improvement over all other playback options including the factory supplied ASIO driver for my AURALIC VEGA.
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Re: HAL MS-3 Music Server and dspMusik digital crossover
« Reply #121 on: November 28, 2017, 07:50:10 PM »
The HAL MS-3 will be driving the new 16 channel dspMusikLCD for The Megaliths speakers with the digital crossover outputs into the 22 channels of amps needed for the system.

The 10 - Parasound Halo A23's and 2 - Rythmik Audio HX800 servo amps are already setup waiting on the new dspMusikLCD to arrive next week. 

The MS-3 driving the 8 channel dspMusikLCD sounds excellent in its role as the heart of the digital replay system running Windows 10 64bit OS.  Foobar2000 is running the ASIO USB driver for the dspMusikLCD for either the 8 or 16 channel system.   Along with being the player, it is also doing MathAudio RoomEQ room correction via the VST plug-in version.

Any analog inputs are going to the new 24bit/192KHz ADC module in the dspMusikLCD to feed the DSP crossover.  Multiple customers route their preamp to the ADC inputs with excellent results.

 

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Re: HAL MS-3 Music Server and dspMusik digital crossover
« Reply #122 on: January 16, 2018, 05:26:40 PM »
After software testing, the latest version of Room EQ Wizard now supports 24bit/192KHz response testing with the dspMusikLCD system.  This makes the MS-1,2 or 3 fully capable using the windowed response measurements to design speaker crossovers for the dspMusikLCD. 

Any MS-1,2 or 3 Music Server can have REW installed for use with the dspMusikLCD. 

There are some new capabilities in work to use the measurement data from REW with the dspMusikLCD.  These will be discussed once the system is completed and ready for use. 

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Re: HAL MS-3 Music Server and dspMusik digital crossover
« Reply #123 on: January 29, 2018, 05:07:22 AM »
For anyone with a MS-1, MS-2 or MS-3 running Windows 10, the Fall Creators update 1709 would not install properly on my machines here. 

The solution was to get MS Media Creator and create a DVD with the Win10 64 bit update.  Ran it from Win 10 and the update was successful.

Now of to some line array speaker measurements with the MS-3 and dspMusikLCD 2x16 digital crossover.