DELTA AUDIO STUDIO REVIEW SOFTWARE
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My review sample was finished in black silver is also available. Other options include upgrades to 32GB of RAM, 2TB (SSD) of music storage, and a second internal drive, either an SSD or a spinning hard drive.Ī near-cube measuring 10.8”H x 10.3”W x 10.3”D and weighing 21 pounds, the Delta Music Server has finned panels of extruded aluminum on all four sides. Custom configurations based on Intel’s i3, i5, i7, and i9 Core processors are available for users of more modest needs.

DELTA AUDIO STUDIO REVIEW SOFTWARE

Those standard configurations include the Delta M100 ($2999), with 8GB of RAM, and a 128GB solid-state drive (SSD) for the operating system and Roon software the M110 ($3149), which adds a 1TB SSD for music storage and the M111 ($3429), with 1TB SSD plus a 7” touchscreen that connects to one of the Delta’s USB ports.Īs we’ll see in the “Benchmarks” section below, the Delta is indeed a powerhouse - not everyone will need its prodigious ability to crunch digits. It’s appropriate to think of this CPU enabling the Delta Server to create immersive, high-resolution aural environments. The same family of chips are used in ultra-high-end, liquid-cooled gaming desktop PCs, such as Dell’s Alienware models - computers that can render immersively detailed 3D worlds that respond instantly and seamlessly to players’ movements. In its standard configurations, the Delta employs an eight-core Intel Core i9-9900 9th Gen processor, one of Intel’s most powerful CPUs. So at Florida Audio Expo 2020 in early February - the last major audio show held in North America before COVID-19 shut everything down - exaSound introduced an even more powerful server: the Delta.ĮxaSound builds all Delta servers to order, a process that typically takes five to ten business days. Those features include upsampling to high-resolution PCM or DSD using different digital filter settings, up to seven bands of parametric equalization, headroom management to prevent clipping (very useful if you use EQ to boost the low frequencies), and, for power users, convolution filters for optimizing a system’s in-room impulse response. Some requested a server that could play multichannel DSD audio through exaSound’s e38 Mk.II eight-channel DAC ($3999), which has maximum resolutions of 32-bit/384kHz PCM and DSD256, while streaming music to other zones and exploiting Roon’s DSP features. Intended primarily for use as a Roon server, the Gamma employs an Intel Core i7 8th Gen processor, and its specs and price are very close to Roon’s premium Nucleus+ server ($2498).Īccording to exaSound president George Klissarov, some customers needed even more number-crunching capability than the Gamma could provide.

In April 2019, at Axpona in Chicago, exaSound introduced the sleek Gamma music server ($2499, not including storage all prices USD).

I’ve modified it for music playback, swapping out its spinning hard-disk drive for a solid-state drive (SSD), and bumping up its RAM from 4 to 16GB, so that music plays from memory rather than storage.īut Toronto-based exaSound Audio Design believes that some music lovers need all the horsepower they can get.

DELTA AUDIO STUDIO REVIEW MAC

Do you need a powerhouse computer just to play music? Not everyone does - I use a nine-year-old, mid-tier Apple Mac Mini, and it does just fine.

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