Audiophile PC build when? Zzyxxphile showcases the "audiophile-grade" Revelation Audio SSD on the Audiophile Style forums

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Summary

Audiophiles have done it again and created yet another insanely overpriced- I mean, clearly well-deserving of its high price tag for its good audio fidelity PC part - this time an NVMe SSD. Sporting a Crystek CCHD-957 Femto clock oscillator and 2 Audionote Kaisei 220µf capacitors instead of a simple SMD oscillator, 5u gold-plated connectors, a CNC'd copper heatsink, external 5VDC power input or internal MB power with onboard capacitor filtering, 1TB 3D NAND in pseudoSLC mode for 333GB of space, an 8-layer copper PCB weighing in at 2 ounces (or about 57 grams for the rest of the world, excluding Liberia and Myanmar), and 300% grounding area, this is sure to make audiophiles very happy.

As long as they're willing to cough up $800 USD minimum.

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Almost a year in the making, the world's only NVMe M2 SSD designed for audiophiles and music lovers. Designed from ground up, co-develop with controller manufacturer using 3D NAND flash with pseudo SLC mode, external clock oscillator, 200% more PCB copper isolation, milspec PCB stiffness, 300% grounding surface, 5u gold plated connectors, plus external power input, additional capacitor filteration. These results to real 3 demensional souding, sense of vinyl and dynamic sound no other SSD currently can offer or even close to.

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The developer of this device, posted in the Audiophile Style forums, tries to make a good case. The NVMe SSD has supposedly been built from ground up to increase audio quality and provide real 3D sound. If you believe the hype, it will even let you experience audio quality in an experience that only comes from vinyl recordings.

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Specifications for the drive include a Crystek CCHD-957 Femto clock oscillator and a pair of Audionote Kaisei 220uf capacitors. These components are definitely key to good audiophile hardware, well-known in the industry. However, they’re known for being used to build DACs, amps, sound cards, and the like.

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We are currently offering 2 test samples for experienced CAT users who willing to share your experience and feedbacks, if you are willing to participate in the experience, please send private message.

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SSD without heatsink

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SSD with heatsink

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My thoughts

Combine this with the AOpen AX4B-533 Tube motherboard and you've got yourself a killer deal for the suckers- er, extreme audiophiles out there.

Extreme audiophile PC build when @LinusTech?

 

Jokes aside, here's more. Read the replies.

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Wow! Love it! Especially having external psu input! Looking forward to hearing about it & price point.

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Really wow, looks very good. Curious to know how it’s SQ is.

I only would have used a different power connector because it total height. It wouldn’t fit in my case, I only have have about 5mm or so.

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He has one of the "audio filtering" PCIe cards...

Here, read the rest it's so funny

 

Also, seriously? No audiophile-grade filesystem? VAFS (Vinyl Audio File System) or something? I wanted to do AFS (Audio File System) or AFFS (Audio Fidelity File System), but those are taken by the Andrew File System and Amiga Fast File System, respectively.

 

UPDATE:
We have a confirmed price tag.

You can buy the heatsinkless version for 800 USD:

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And a heatsink version for an unknown price as it's sold out.

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This is currently Zzyxxphile's only product.

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But hey, it comes with a 1-year warranty.

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Excluding electrical surges, lightning damage, customer negligence, improper voltage connections, or other acts of God.

So you don't really have a warranty.

Sources

https://www.techpowerup.com/290049/an-audiophile-grade-ssd-yes-you-heard-that-right

https://hothardware.com/news/if-this-audiophile-grade-ssd-sounds-like-bs-its-probably-because-it-is

https://audiophilestyle.com/forums/topic/62753-nvme-ssd-designed-for-audiophiles

https://www.zzyzxphile.com/

 

[BondiBlue]

I was waiting for someone to post this. At this point, why don't we have an audiophile-grade monitor? Surely a screen with fancy filtering would also help audio quality, right?

[adarw]

are they pairing this with that audiophile lan cable?

[madferit]

6 minutes ago, BondiBlue said:

I was waiting for someone to post this. At this point, why don't we have an audiophile-grade monitor? Surely a screen with fancy filtering would also help audio quality, right?

I was going to joke about a couple other things being audiophile grade but then I realized they exist...

[Arika]

Can't wait for audiophile

• mechanical keyboard
• gaming mouse
• laptop
• office chair
• CPU cooler
• PC case
• Fans

 

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plus external power input

OMG, fucking LOL, it looks stupid

 

[dizmo]

This was posted on the forum I want to say weeks ago.

Eh. I don't see the issue. Let people spend their money where they want. Audiophiles already spend thousands on cables.

[BondiBlue]

Just now, dizmo said:

This was posted on the forum I want to say weeks ago.

Are you thinking about the network switch posted a few days ago? The big articles about this SSD are only from the past couple days. 

[Lightwreather]

So the SSD might actually be really good seeing as it it run in pSLC mode, but marketing it as "Audiophile" is well, nuts.

[dizmo]

7 minutes ago, BondiBlue said:

Are you thinking about the network switch posted a few days ago? The big articles about this SSD are only from the past couple days. 

Nope.

Weeks.

Also, the original information about this SSD is from April.

 

[BondiBlue]

1 minute ago, dizmo said:

Nope.

Weeks.

Also, the original information about this SSD is from April.

Ah, I didn't see that thread. But I wasn't talking about information about the SSD itself. I was talking about the articles about it on large tech sites - those are from the past few days. 

[dizmo]

2 minutes ago, BondiBlue said:

Ah, I didn't see that thread. But I wasn't talking about information about the SSD itself. I was talking about the articles about it on large tech sites - those are from the past few days. 

Right, but you saying that is implying that I wasn't thinking about the SSD Don't try to move the goal posts.

[BondiBlue]

7 minutes ago, dizmo said:

Right, but you saying that is implying that I wasn't thinking about the SSD Don't try to move the goal posts.

Except I'm not moving goal posts lol. If you look online you'll see that the majority of articles from large sites talking about this SSD are from very recently. I know the information about this drive (as well as the original forum post about it on Audiophile Style) is from April. I never said otherwise. 

[Kisai]

24 minutes ago, BondiBlue said:

I was waiting for someone to post this. At this point, why don't we have an audiophile-grade monitor? Surely a screen with fancy filtering would also help audio quality, right?

 

I know people like to rip on audiophiles and people who play games over 60hz, but there is sometimes some truth in the concern.

 

Since the final output of any audio device is ultimately analog, the quality of the earphones or speakers is the only part that really determines what it sounds like. Cheap DAC's will have hum or noise, but no other part before the DAC makes a difference. SSD, RAM, or CPU has no bearing on the quality of the audio, at most they might induce electrical noise if they're not assembled well.  

 

That "front audio connector", on your desktop, probably gets more electrical noise, because the header for it tends to be at the rear of the motherboard, and thus has to run over a huge amount of electrical noise generating parts. So an "audiophile" motherboard would avoid this by having two independent "audio codecs" on the board, one for the front audio and one for the rear.

 

But like anything, diminishing returns. My 13 year old X-fi card has less noise than the motherboard audio until the most recent ASUS board I got for the 11th gen intel cpu, which I feel the asus board was equal or better, so I'm using the onboard audio. But the previous two MB's ? the X-fi was far better.

 

So a SSD? Nah, there's nothing audiophile about a SSD.

 

[Zodiark1593]

Or, I dunno, get an external DAC and Amp, and skip the electrical noise within a PC altogether?

[NumLock21]

The SSD has 2 power modes, internal from the slot or external through the AC adapter. It can be set by using the jumper and placing it to the specific set of pins.

 

Up next

Audiophile case with audiophile grade tempered glass side panel!

[Bananasplit_00]

This isn't even audiophile anymore, this is being horny over having the most square bits and best signal integrity for the sake of it

[jagdtigger]

Huh, so they haven heard of sony's failed attempt.....

 

[Mark Kaine]

4 hours ago, jagdtigger said:

Huh, so they haven heard of sony's failed attempt.....

 

or they are the 5 guys that bought it

[RejZoR]

Just like Windows Vista compatible 3,5mm jack speakers with a sticker telling this back in the day lol

[StDragon]

9 hours ago, Kisai said:

I know people like to rip on audiophiles...

Oh no, here comes the defense (holding breath).

 

9 hours ago, Kisai said:

Since the final output of any audio device is ultimately analog, the quality of the earphones or speakers is the only part that really determines what it sounds like. Cheap DAC's will have hum or noise, but no other part before the DAC makes a difference.

It's a religion for the ignorant among the industry!

 

Let me tell you about the people that really, truly, care about the quality of their audio from a PC. They don't use internal DACs!!! They will use a TOSLINK or connect the external DAC to the USB port** of the computing device that's playing back the lossless digital media (FLAC, WAV). Essentially, they just want the raw PCM delivered, not processed within the device because of the aforementioned noisy RF environment. Anyone doing the contrary isn't an "audiophile", but a poser pretending to be one.

 

**quality / well engineered USB DACs will contain extra circuitry for RF isolation.

[StDragon]

9 hours ago, Arika S said:

Can't wait for audiophile

• mechanical keyboard
• gaming mouse
• laptop
• office chair
• CPU cooler
• PC case
• Fans

 

OMG, fucking LOL, it looks stupid

 

It's missing the healing crystals, and I don't see a certificate of being blessed by a Tibetan Buddhist.

[jagdtigger]

34 minutes ago, StDragon said:

Let me tell you about the people that really, truly, care about the quality of their audio from a PC.

And those who truly care about quality dont use a digital storage for their stuff. As soon as the audio passes through an ADC it becomes lossy.....

 

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If its not obvious just poking fun at "audiophiles".

 

[da na]

10 hours ago, BondiBlue said:

I was waiting for someone to post this. At this point, why don't we have an audiophile-grade monitor? Surely a screen with fancy filtering would also help audio quality, right?

So you can see the sound better

[StDragon]

10 minutes ago, jagdtigger said:

And those who truly care about quality dont use a digital storage for their stuff. As soon as the audio passes through an ADC it becomes lossy.....

 

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If its not obvious just poking fun at "audiophiles".

 

Tape can be a good media for the pure analog domain. In fact, many master recordings are still on it. And to be clear (no pun intended), that was the best format at the time of recording.

The problem with analog is that it degrades and suffers loss with each copy. That's why digital exists; to quantize information that can be validated and corrected against bit-rot due to physical media and transmission degradation (physical layer issues). I don't think there will ever be a meaningful revolution in consumer audio like the CD (Compact Disk for for those that are too young). Yes, 24bit / 192kHz exists, but due to the limitation of human hearing, and the source of the audio recording and mastery, very few recordings stand out, and up-sampling them doesn't really do it justice. Also, human hearing is limited.

The only way to really get the best audio delivered to the brain would be through cybernetic implants that equal or surpass what the cochlea can deliver; and that's based on a whole lot of assumptions about what the interface can deliver, and if the human brain can adapt to process anything above 20kHz and beyond. But that's way out into the future that may never occur.

[Fasterthannothing]

15 hours ago, Zodiark1593 said:

Or, I dunno, get an external DAC and Amp, and skip the electrical noise within a PC altogether?

 What about isolating the electrical noise from plugging my stuff into the same outlet?  Now that I'm thinking of it I might need to run a separate line for power but then that goes back to the same power plant so maybe I also need to run my own powerplant to make sure I don't get any electrical feedback in my audio. I mean a million dollar audio budget is reasonable right? /s