To fully grok things, the context of the thread is a person so unhappy with a JPLAY[1] beta that they roll their own command-line audio player with the single-m

To fully grok things, the context of the thread is a person so unhappy with a JPLAY[1] beta that they roll their own command-line audio player with the single-minded goal of eliminating all possible forms of latency. (Upthread they talk about dropping to assembly; further down the thread someone suggests avoiding using the CPU altogether.) JPLAY is the kind of thing that offers, among its features, the ability to use a dedicated PC (ideally running Windows Server) for playback.[2] This includes selling their own SSDs "selected for their sound properties" and "Reference SATA cables to ensure absolute best sound quality", and playback-optimized USB cards and denoisers, network adapters and power supplies.[3] The best examples are the 375€ "USB Isolator", which "blocks all noise coming from a PC and re-generates clean USB signal from a (sic) scratch resulting in vast sound quality improvements"[4] and their 12,000€ 4TB server featuring "the only...motherboard designed exclusively for high-end audio playback" that avoids the common pitfalls of worse "office work and gaming" motherboards that "pollute other hi-fi components and contribute to irritating 'digital' sound". Its signature review, pulled out in the product page, says it's indistinguishable from an analog recording - the highest of high praise.[5] The poster in the linked thread was like, nah, they suck, this sounds awful, but THIS is obviously better. And look how easy it was to do! These C++ developers are all idiots. 1: http://jplay.eu http://jplay.eu 2: http://jplay.eu/ml_post_slider/jplay-dual-pc-mode-how-it-works-why-you-need-it/ http://jplay.eu/ml_post_slider/jplay-dual-pc-mode-how-it-wor... 3: https://jcat.eu/ https://jcat.eu/; doesn't work in Firefox 4: https://jcat.eu/product/usb-isolator-usb-audio-galvanic-isolator/ https://jcat.eu/product/usb-isolator-usb-audio-galvanic-isol... 5: https://jcat.eu/featured/xact-s1/ https://jcat.eu/featured/xact-s1/