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Environment: All of my CDs are ripped onto an SSD. PC is dedicated, not even online so very few background processes. All the security and update stuff turned off. ( I think) Windows media server. USB to my DAC.
Fault: Twice, I have heard a "studder" like a miss-tracking CD. I naturally thought it was an error in ripping but going back, they played fine.
Question: Wondering of this is a fault of Windows? Likely a process with higher priority stepping on the real time stream, or if it is possible to be a fault of the buffering in the DAC? It is so rare, it is hard to experiment. If it was UNIX, I could ensure who has run-time priority, but Windows makes that a lot harder. Can't imagine it was an interruption reading the SSD.
Fault: Twice, I have heard a "studder" like a miss-tracking CD. I naturally thought it was an error in ripping but going back, they played fine.
Question: Wondering of this is a fault of Windows? Likely a process with higher priority stepping on the real time stream, or if it is possible to be a fault of the buffering in the DAC? It is so rare, it is hard to experiment. If it was UNIX, I could ensure who has run-time priority, but Windows makes that a lot harder. Can't imagine it was an interruption reading the SSD.