1.04 does not install I get an error message something like "Preinstallation ..... failed ... try again..."

1.03 installs no problem.

Paul

OK tried keep PAN services but no luck. I did try changing IP address and also no luck.

As you would guess when in MinOS the XX PC cannot see anything on the network. Also can't see the XX PC from anything else on the network. I can get out to the internet though

Cheers

Paul

I have just set "Keep Wi-Fi Direct Service" on but I still cannot get RDC connection in MinOS

I use the standard Windows RDC

Hi Peter,

In Win10 when I go into MinOS RDC does not work - it works fine in FullOS. I have not had this problem before under win8 using the same XX settings which are below.

SQ is very promising but I need to remove the video card, keyboard mouse and screen to make a proper comparison.

Cheers

Paul

Attached is the error msg

Yes I press "Activation" text :-) and that works fine by taking me to the screen with the Paypal button. It is when I press the Paypal button that I get the error message. Sorry should have made that clear before.

Paul

At the risk of being told I have missed something I cannot Activate 202 under Windows10.

Having played some music in normal OS I then click the "Activate" button but then I get an error message "Unhandled Exception" which in the first line under details indicates that an app will not run unless UAC is activated. Obviously XX has previously switched UAC off during the install process.

Prior to installing 202 I made sure that EAC was set to normal as stated in the install instructions.

Cheers

Paul

I installed build 10074 (on a clean formatted disc) and it seems to be working OK. When I install XX 1.186a it starts by installing .net 3.5 and that installs OK but after it has installed when I try to run XX it just gives an error message "XXHighEnd has stopped working".

That's as far as I can get - any ideas would be welcome.

Cheers

Paul

Nice, very nice!!!!

Hi Peter - just out of interest will NOS2 DSD playback have the (obligatory?) low pass filter to remove all that out of band ultrasonic noise that is a feature of DSD files. Or have you done something clever to avoid it?

..... I have to agree it doesn't work at all in English but it is a good name for this thread because it puts over what is in Peter's mind. Hopefully one of us will have a moment of sublime inspiration and come up with a stonking great name.

Actually "Sublime Inspiration"? ..................... naah doesn't work ah well we have time to come up with something.

No question that me, and everyone on this forum totally trusts your honesty on this and everything Peter.

Like Mani I had significant concerns posting these thoughts on Nicks "Chronos" PC, but I think it is important, because it seems that the PC is absolutely key to the music we all listen to - and for sure Chronos would never have happened without NOS1 and XX and all the amazing work Peter did to bring us all to where we are now. Peter if you want to move this or delete then no problem.

Last weekend I visited Nick to bring my PC up to the latest (and I think final) production spec. Please bear in mind that I had previously re-clocked my PC so my impressions on the improved SQ are in addition to previous improvements. In other words the latest mods really make even more of a difference. You will appreciate I cannot relate what those mods are but suffice to say Nick has given them a considerable amount thought and spends considerable time to properly implement them.

Please also bear in mind that my only interest is in SQ and moving it forward, I have no commercial interest whatsoever.

So what do I think? I have to say this is the most important step forward in SQ I have heard with this current system (XX, NOS1a and Orelino's) BUT almost for certain I would not be hearing what I am hearing now without everything Peter has done - would other systems produce what I am hearing now? I have to doubt it, not to the same degree anyway (but maybe I can relate more after Munich High End in May). I would also say that now, for the first time since I have been listening to hifi, I would be quite happy to say "this is it" I now have the sound I was always looking for. Is that too strong? no really this is special. But hey I have said that before.

How would I describe the sound? well that is really difficult because I can't - I mean how do you describe sound that is completely natural and real sounding? I am sure that if I bought some random person in from the street they would say "so what" because it just sounds natural. No big impressive "hi fi" sounds here (thank goodness!).

All I can report is what is gone - a kind of grey sound has gone leaving more real colour and dynamics. There is a darker background. Sounds come from the most precisely located positions between the speakers. With the right recordings there is more depth (I have always been suspicious of depth but it does seem to come with better sound quality). Instruments sound real - shockingly real sometimes. The level of detail is astonishing - there is a fine filigree of detail now that I just have never heard before. You should hear Superbass now - the detail and natural sound of the strings of the double basses is jaw dropping. They are easy to separately distinguish - much easier than before. And I have to say I thought it was special before - but now!!! wow.

I don't know what more to say other than listening to these mods at Nick's place and now here at my place I really do not listen to the "hi fi" for long, I just can't I very quickly get transfixed by the music and do not want to stop listening.

I suspect that even Nick is surprised by the improvements these changes have made.

Nice one Nick!!

Oh by the way Clarixa is being used and was compared it with other USB cables at Nicks and here but I will report on that separately - there was at least one very surprising aspect that I was not expecting.

And I forgot to mention string quartets which I love - well for the first time ever they really do sound good. Decent recordings (like the Kronos recordings) sound fantastic very real with a fantastic acoustic. No hint of aggression from the strings just natural sound. Brilliant that has always been the "holy grail" for me.

Cheers

Paul

How about "The Terminator" or maybe just "Arnie"

But those are just first thoughts

Paul