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While at the Florida Audio Expo last month I ran into Richard Hollis. We were in pretty much agreement that there was not much to write home about. I only found four rooms that I would call musical. I think there would have been some pretty good-sounding speakers if the electronics held up.
Anyway Richard let me know that he is selling a Win10 based music server that is about the size of a deck of cards. When he showed it to me I would have bet this was a Raspberry Pi but he assured me its Win10.
So he lent me an example and I finally got to unboxing and setting it up. Yes it booted up to the familiar Win10 desktop with HAL logo. I comes pre loaded with Foobar and REW and has a measurement mick included.
I loaded up JRiver and was soon listening to my music library on a NAS.
At first listen, all is very good and I will be comparing to my other servers. A full Windows AMD Ryan 5 tower with JRiver. A RasPi 3b running Picore and my Innous Zenith.

Did you happen to spend any time in the Soundfield Speaker room? Impressions?

USB cable choice could make as much or more of a difference as any of those bridges, and clean power on the ones with cheap switching supplies.

Yes I have known AJ for quite awhile. He use to come to CAF to show his prototypes and get feedback on his developments.
AJ showed a pair of 4 way active towers. Each driver powered by a core Modular’s with DSP xover for each driver.
It was interesting but not something I would buy

Paul,
Glad the HAL MS-6 is up and running and playing music for you with your system.

I use mine to drive the Danville Signal dspNexus2x8 DSP processor and 8 channel DAC for crossovers to the Line Array and Servo Subs.

The GaN based USBC power supply for the MS-6 is very quiet running DSP or DAC's here.

Have fun with it!

Best,
Rich