Post by peterthebutcher on Jul 9, 2024 9:44:52 GMT
Hi folk, and thanks for all your patience, advice etc on the "Digital" quandary I have been having lately. 
Yesterday 8/7, my PC guy bought me my latest purchase, a "Minisforum MS-01", it fulfilled my needs, if great overkill, in that it could take up to 3 SSD's and had a superfast Pentium i9. Then idea that I could put all my things on the included 1 TB SSD and just use the 2TB SSD for my music files (and Audirvana if I could). Anyway my PC guru installed it with its brick type power cable, and swapped over the HDMI and Artisan silver USB that connects my TV and Matrix Audio SPDIF. Then disaster, the subs started making a god awful hum, nooooooooo I thought. we tried USB C to HDMI, 3 other quality HDMI cables, put the PC in a temporary position and just ran the various HDMI cables to the TV, and made sure NO power cables was near any other cable... No joy, it still created a noise. The poor lad had no idea how to cure it, so in the end he swapped back my Samsung SSD and reinstalled my previous PC, where it performed as before, dead quiet. He was very apologetic, and said it actually works, as he has used/tested it. He said he would return it. I suppose the moral I learnt was that their are other upgrades (but dearer than the £800 new PC), and buy from Amazon and not direct from the manufacturer in China, where getting a refund is harder
Peter
Yesterday 8/7, my PC guy bought me my latest purchase, a "Minisforum MS-01", it fulfilled my needs, if great overkill, in that it could take up to 3 SSD's and had a superfast Pentium i9. Then idea that I could put all my things on the included 1 TB SSD and just use the 2TB SSD for my music files (and Audirvana if I could). Anyway my PC guru installed it with its brick type power cable, and swapped over the HDMI and Artisan silver USB that connects my TV and Matrix Audio SPDIF. Then disaster, the subs started making a god awful hum, nooooooooo I thought. we tried USB C to HDMI, 3 other quality HDMI cables, put the PC in a temporary position and just ran the various HDMI cables to the TV, and made sure NO power cables was near any other cable... No joy, it still created a noise. The poor lad had no idea how to cure it, so in the end he swapped back my Samsung SSD and reinstalled my previous PC, where it performed as before, dead quiet. He was very apologetic, and said it actually works, as he has used/tested it. He said he would return it. I suppose the moral I learnt was that their are other upgrades (but dearer than the £800 new PC), and buy from Amazon and not direct from the manufacturer in China, where getting a refund is harder
Peter
