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Small experiment that takes about 5 seconds to try (not counting listening and logging).


Roon users: disable both "Background Audio Analysis Speed" and "On-Demand Audio Analysis Speed". These setting are found under "Settings" and "Library".

1. Listen and report what you hear?

2. If you logging power consumption and or CPU demand/temperature, report findings with the two setting disabled and with both settings enabled?








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1. Sound is generally clearer, more focused, vibrant.
2. With the two audio analysis settings enabled, I see hourly/daily fluctuations between 19.4v to 19.9v and .5A to .8A draw. With both Audio Analysis settings disabled, I see rock steady 19.1v and .4A to .5A draw.

I don't use roon, and I haven't looked at power consumption, but on one of my MPD based bridges if I'm just passing through data and not resampling, even at 24/192 CPU utilization is <2%, if it needs to resample the CPU utilization goes up to 15-20%

Roscoe

Yea, no resampling or DSP here. The settings allow Roon to analyze songs for crossfading, volume leveling, reporting dynamic range and a graphical representation of waveform. I don't use any of these things so I turned off the analysis.

Roscoe Primrose wrote:I don't use roon, and I haven't looked at power consumption, but on one of my MPD based bridges if I'm just passing through data and not resampling, even at 24/192 CPU utilization is <2%, if it needs to resample the CPU utilization goes up to 15-20%

Roscoe