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In the Thread: DAW is down… new DAW.

Post Subject: DAW is down… new DAW.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 9/28/2014

It looks like my computer playback box is kind of dying, not to mention that it is hugely outdated now. It is 10 year old box that still run on Win XP pro and 4G memory. It begins to throw fists here and there; it is time to replace it, I think that shall incudes the box. The contemporary mashies are so much quieter that I will be with no problem able to put them in the listening room and do not hide the box o the basement as I do now. Also, old idea was to put a lot of driver in the box, nowadays it is not necessary as the drivers might live in separate NAS storage.

Of cause I will not be buying any off the shelf solutions. They are ridicules in term of price and I am not sure that they deliver any interesting performance. I will get some kind of genetic box and will reuse my Lynx 16 card (that I still like a lot) and my drives.

I am think about two options. Fist is ThinkServer ts140. It is server class machine with 25dB noise. Second is to take any good pro workstation (like HP Z400). Probably it will be Win 7 and WaveLab 6 but am for sure this time would like to have the DAW in my listening room. I literally would like to have the whole new DAW project to be no more then $300-$400.

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