Hi Zheng - Thank you for sharing this.

Now, assumed your observations are most distinct, what about :

MQA Playback:
XXHE settings, volume to what you want, Arc Prediction On, Upsampling 384000MHz, Decode MQA = Yes.

Now you will be comparing the MQA filters in the MQA DAC (you already listened to that) with the filters in XXHE, both situations MQA decoded.
If you like of course ...

Best regards,
Peter

Yes Richard, that is what it should be for your Stealth. All OK.

Best regards,
Peter

Hello Richard,

Strange. But also the second time I run into this (was the first time mentioned on the forum, 3 weeks or so ago ? - maybe not).

So somehow this can happen and I saw it myself with a Stealth over here. I think this can happen with a strange (re)boot. Thus, if you'd be able to watch closely, the system boots, shuts off again (fans stop - not that you will have fans running in there anyway), and 3 seconds later boots again. That was the situation I saw that after that Turbo Boost was active.
Saw it one time, but maybe it happens more often; normally I don't watch out for this.

Question : Is Turbo Boost still on after another reboot ?
If it remains like that I'll guide you through the process of changing something in the BIOS. OK ?

Best regards,
Peter

OK, I have been out fishing. 

The server dealing with the forum and the email (this is the same server) ran into its "virtual" size limits and needed expansion of the OS file. Well, people with the RAM-OS Disk will recognize some of this. Me luckily too. But in this (Linux) situation it was difficult to recognize the problem and next needed quite some hoopla to expand the OS.

Regards to all and apologies for the possible inconvenience.
Peter

Hi Arvind,

Not radically different is what I thought too, without really knowing what I Icompared to. This is because it took longer than I imagined but which I apparently am used to. But what I also thought of yesterday :

My "boosted" XXHighEnd when it is decoding will run at 2100MHz (2.1 GHz). Yours probably at 1800MHz (because of the setting of concern I applied to the Stealth (this is done the same with everybody). Also, my memory frequency as of yesterday was 1800MHz and I am not sure what the Stealth is set to but if anything (as I ever back set it) it could be 1333MHz. Or ...
Or it is at 2400MHz because I set nothing and it is set to Auto and thus uses what the memory allows for (this will be 2400MHz I'd say).

Anyway it is indeed what you say : it is to be regarded insignificant. And notice that the processor's frequency will be quite linearly related to the time this decoding takes. Thus a difference of 300 on 2100 is an easy 15%. 15% of 65 seconds is 10 seconds.

Kind regards,
Peter

Hi Zheng,


"Seperate questions" are to be put in separate topics, so I just did that. haha.

I am afraid that this is your DAC. It may be hard to explain but for me this can "locically happen".  However, if you recognize this is happening to all your DACs (I assume you have a dozen ) then we may try to investigate which setting causes this. Anyway I would try the (Q1) 30x40 (assumed you set that because "we" do lately) back at a normal 14x1. I think this relates to what a DAC can fail upon.

Btw, maybe there is a misunderstanding about what is "soft fade in" as such. I think you refer to something like what software is doing to you, while I'd say the level gradually increases (which is quite explicitly not what you mean, I think).

Let me know what happens.

Best regards,
Peter

Hi Arvind,


I suppose I did not mean that one because it doesn't resemble anything of your timings.
I was trying to see how long it takes over here. That doesn't work like this.

Anyway, this one plays in 65 seconds, just started from track 01.

Regards,
Peter

Arvind - Super !
I didn't want to put this burden on you. But, it is the easiest thing to try out now myself. So ...

Which album is that ?
Additionally, what is your Core Appointment setting, and what are the two Priority settings ? (something with player and thread).
And to be sure, the Balanced Load nr you use for this ?

Best regards,
Peter

OK.
I don't know whether that is consistent.

I assume that the whole album which loads in 15-20 seconds does not contain even one track of 17 minutes (which loads in 10 seconds as you say). Do notice that the longest track determines the load time, as long as you have 20 tracks or less. Same counts for MQA decoding (which I think can take 60 seconds for a 17 minute track).

So with the knowlegde of this "the longest track" etc., you kind of claim that with Attended this one track goes faster than when this same one track is started for Unattended (as the only one - make it the last in the Playlist Area for your comfort).
I know, you are not saying this, but it is my conclusion. So please test this, OK ?

Best regards,
Peter

I am sorry Arvind - I was not asking for that. I asked the time it takes to start playback for a 10 minute or more (not less) normal FLAC track.

Thanks !
Peter

Maybe you don't have Boost at XXHighEnd Startup (something like that) active ? That would explain it ...

Arvind, how long takes a normal FLAC of the same length (or a little longer) ?

Peter

After a few minutes ...

Aha ... OK, so all explained.
N.b: I too had to re-loging last week (this is a kind of expected behavior as the Tidal sessions don't last forever (they don't know themselves how long they will last)).


No, that won't work. I must do it again for you, like the other times. Still no clue why, btw.

I just tried for you, but I think you changed your password. So I will be watching my email for it.
I am out for a while now first ...

Peter