For sale is the Mach II XXHighEnd PC with Linear power supply.
The CPU is a Xeon E5-2640 v4 3.4 ghz
It also comes with the OS-Ram drive (originally 390 euro's) that has XXHighEnd 2.08z installed. You can configure it to work with any DAC.
I'm including the OS-RAM drive with XXHighEnd as this way all you will need to do is plug it in and configure it. For even better sound quality you should take the sound card out and remote desktop into the Mach II to control it. Tons of information on the
www.phasure.com site on doing this.
You are getting three items - the music streamer, a highly optimized PC that has a Linear power supply built in, the XXHighend Software and the OS-RAM drive. All of those items combine to improve the sound quality.
I've thought about how to price this. On Ebay, just the CPU goes between $800-$1000 and a linear power supply is roughly $300-$500. I'm asking $1600 which again includes the OS-Ram drive with XXHighEnd and an entire PC optimized for music sound quality. If you don't want the OS-Ram drive then I would sell for $1350.
Paypal fees and shipping is paid by the buyer.
For details please read this thread for details -
http://www.phasure.com/index.php?topic=3621.0You can explore the site that talks about literally hundreds of tweaks done over years to improve sound quality.
From the manufacturer -
The Phasure Mach II Stealth LPS is an all passively cooled Audio PC with 10 core (20 core hyperthreaded) or more processor and which houses a Linear Power Supply. All in a case of only 10cm / 4" of height (that includes the footers). It is 43,5cm / 17.5" wide and 35cm / 14" deep.
Behind the nicely machined bracket for the power inlet (115/230V switchable) and power switch there's a transformer and Linear Power Supply, delicately tuned for the best Sound Quality possible today.
This new Mach II Stealth LPS should be able to set the audio standard for the upcoming years;
The LPS is the result of the on-going expertise and motivation of us all and say that I have been there to finish it off with now 10 years of quite explicit "audio building" experience. This resulted in something which is well beyond a "XXHighEnd PC" as all this expertise is now packed into one small box, previously thought to be impossible.
Besides that, and of course is has been the sheer objective, this "box" changes the sound so drastically that it is once again beyond belief how it can happen.
There are no large heat sinks part of the case - there is no forced air cooling, there is nothing getting hot and there is a 20 core processor.
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Like the first edition of the XXHighEnd PC, this one can be heavily underclocked in combination with the XXHighEnd software. And, although it has not been explored for SQ, the Mach II LPS can run at a ridiculously low 120MHz, which is too low to operate really (all is not responsive enough). For that reason XXHighEnd 2.06+ contains a "boost" feature which kicks in when needed (like with volume change), while after the operation of concern the pre-set playback frequency is automatically re-engaged.
