Hi Peter,

A pair shipped to Bangkok please.
Thanks!
Praphan

Hi Peter,

Excellent idea!

I personally found that One of your previous posts related to coverart is very useful and deserves to be one of the topics in the guideline.

http://www.phasure.com/index.php?topic=1966.msg20148#msg20148

Best regards,
Praphan

Hi,

I am 100% aligned with Peter. If you place SMPS on top of the case, heat generated from other components such as north and south bridge heatsinks will soak your SMPS. Combined with its own heat, your Seasonic fan will kick start all the time.

Why don't consider placing the PS outside the case, so you can go for multimedia PC case. For more noise (both audio and RFI/EMI) immuned linear power supply system, please check this out. It will be available next month.

http://www.itemaudio.com/index.php/power-supplies/detail/1-power-supplies/flypage/1011-item-linear-atx-power-supply?sef=hcfp

Regards,
Praphan

Hi,

You may like to consider cases that do not really need any fans. Antec used to offer Skeleton which was posted in XX forum 2 years ago. I think it is no longer available. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811129056 

Lien Li also offers similar bare bone style. I like Lien Li aluminium range manufactured in Taiwan. Great craftsmanship.

Hello,

I had a reply from SOtM. They will release tx-USBexp in late June.

Not a Renesas chipset but Texas Instrument 7320 instead. http://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/tusb7320.pdf

From the data manual, any chance to predict the compatibility of its driver with NOS1 USB?  Can be too expensive for a wild experiment. I expect that it will carry a price tag of USD 300+

Best regards,
Praphan

Affirmative !
Red book 16/44.1 AP x 8 to 352.8 K. "Is NOS1" unchecked; SW5 off. Confirm no problem.
Thanks.
Praphan

Peter Hi,

Just test using NOS1 USB with the setting you asked for.

No problem at all. Normal stereo sound at 352.8K
Turning on sw5 will kill right channel as usual.
Best regards,
Praphan

Well Peter, it is my speculation that you will fire up the screen on the right leg from the long waiting 0.9z-7 onward ! But we can wait.

regards,
Praphan

Hello Everyone,

Just a gentle warning for anyone who will attempt to use water cooling system in a city which has regular black out like Bangkok. You tend to use UPS to feed power to your audio PC. In my case, I use true on line UPS. Please make sure that you power the water cooling pump from the UPS source too. Otherwise, when power fails, cooling system will stop while CPU is still running. Of course, mobo will do the shut down work automatically. But it is safer to run cooling pump from UPS source.

Please see more details in my post last year with some photos. It has been almost 2 years that I use Reserator 1. It is sturdy and very reliable.

http://www.phasure.com/index.php?topic=1662.msg16787#msg16787

Best regards,
Praphan

Hi Peter,

I just checked it now. All the screen shots are there and being loaded at light speed.

Regards,
Praphan

I am currently running NOS1 USB through SOtM tx-USB with satisfactory result. Folks on CA forum have mentioned about tx-USBexp for quite a while but no one knows the release date. I used to order stuff directly from Korea. So I recently wrote to them asking if they use NEC/Renesas chipset and about the release date. So far no response.

Hope they don't use Etron Tech chipset since its drivers (all versions) are not compatible with NOS1 USB.

Regards,
Praphan

Hi Alain,

Min OS can be switched back and forth to full OS environment indefinitely. This is the way Peter designed if one set initial sequence up properly.

How do you tell if you are in min OS environment ?  You will notice the difference right at the desktop where the looks are slightly different. Some tools are inactive. Try "disk management" to find out. Even in the System screen (right click "computer" and click "property"), the system will tell you that you have an illegal license.

If it doesn't cause you too much of trouble, you should reinstall OS and XXHE from scratch. Follow Juan's recommendation ie OS and XXHE in the same partition : works great. Then on the first launch of XXHE, you should set up all the parameters as you like and play music files under attended mode.  Reboot and change the parameters randomly and play the files again. Then you can launch the  Min OS.

Hope this helps.
Cheers!
Praphan

Alain hi,

Seems like you have to reinstall your OS.
Please read this :
http://www.phasure.com/index.php?topic=1810.msg18425#msg18425

Praphan

Hello Tweakers,

In this thread, I think we have addressed at least three factors which affect sound quality/ sonic signature. They are:

1. USB cable : (USB3.0 + adapter) vs USB2
2. USB controllers : some uses on-board USB3.0 controller (such as NEC on ASUS X58), some uses USB3.0 PCIe card to compare with plain USB2 port on mobo. As for me, I use PCI USB2 host controller.
3. Bios control on USB function : disabling or enabling USB3 / USB2 hardware controllers by the Bios

I am one of those on the league that believes in different SQ coming from different quality of USB cable. I did the test and ended up using mid price Kimber Kable USB cord since day one after getting my NOS1 back from upgrade. Presentation is more vivid, detail and less edgy. I guess that stock USB3.0 blue cable may be built with better conductor and mechanical construction and hence giving better SQ like expensive USB2 cable.

With Kimber Kable, I did several testings with it connecting to

(a) USB2 mobo port
(b) USB3 mobo port (controlled by NEC chip)
(c) USB2 port on SOtM tx PCI USB2 host

I compared (a) and (c) many months back when I bought SOtM tx card and I stick with it since then.

The first impression with USB3.0 port on mobo was interesting. Fuller sound with more body and seems like less edgy high.  However, the more I listen the more I can feel some untidiness in the music I heard. I think someone ever mentioned about echo in this thread. But when I checked back, the text was removed. Not sure that echo is the right vocabulary. I would say the note is diffused. I can hear this kind of diffused note on piano instrument clearly especially on "I'm a Fool to Want You" track in Tsuyoshi Yamamoto Trio's Midnight Sugar. Yamamoto rolled his fingers a lot on the upper top three octaves of the piano (starting from tenor C key 52 up). These notes have crisper and tidier presentation from SOtM USB2 than my on-mobo USB3 port. Notes from USB3 have unrealistic sustaining sound as if Yamamoto applied the right pedal. I can even hear the diffused notes from part of his play which was supposed to be "staccato".

I still prefer USB2 out from SOtM. But I learnt one value added advise here ie. disable the onboard USB2 controller by BIOS (tried disable USB3 controller too but don't like it).

Just my view on my equipments.

Best regards,
Praphan

Congratulation Paul !

I guess you were using USB2 cable connecting to USB3 port for the listening test. If so, then it has nothing to do with the cable. It is all about USB3 port. Can anyone explain ?

thanks,
Praphan