Hi Scroobius,

I looks as if I would need more than 2 cores to get better results, since Peter indicated that the drivers tend to go to the last core (or hyperthread).

Maybe this expense is not totally wasted for me...

Thanks.

Alain

Peter,

Coming from you, I find your comment about the length of my emails quite amusing

I am stuck with the Adnaco, may be it Maybe when I will decide to get a more powerful PC it will do the trick, but I will not bet my life on this :-)

Kind regards,

Alain

Hi Peter,

No problem at all. There is always something to discover each and every day and I am happy about this. Life would be boring if we knew everything

I have flashed the BIOS to the latest and the BSODs have stopped. There was also an update for USB3 (I guess this is in case I add a USB3 controler card ?).

But the behavior is still there, no matter what I do.

Will I accelerate the build of a new PC - not sure for the moment, it depends if that behaviour changes, or at least the driver puts itself in another core or hyperthread than XXHE engine ?

Anyway, now I will write to Adnaco and check with them if there is something to do - maybe like having a second CPU

Life is wonderful don't you think ?

Alain

Hi Peter,

I have always been a stubborn kind of guy and I guess you were able to see this. I (too often) tend to obliterate a certain degree of caution and "try" new things... When it turns out fine as you mention, I can feel so enthusiastic

I will try to update the Bios (if possible) just to see, but I doubt it will change a thing about the "pumping" of the CPU core. I would have liked to ask the driver to switch to the first core instead of the "music" one from my chosen scheme (in my case, it is Scheme 2), but I guess that this is not possible with a driver... More than this, this driver is in the link...

Unless I am wrong, I think that the Audiophilleo 2 is async USB ?

Regards,

Alain
P.S.: When I look at all I have bought for the last 2 years regarding audio, I hate myself for not putting money aside for the NOS1. It's as simple as that... 

Hi Nick,

Thanks for the info. I will check with the Bios update, just to see if I can squeeze out something. I do update the BIOS from time to time when a PC gets older, but I had this one only 3 months ago. In fact, I would have liked to have a more powerful PC for my music (and I eventually will), but well, this one arrived "by accident" and I finally took it to replace my aging laptop...

When we see the video of the S3B on YouTube, the model shown has 3 outputs on the receiver side and it seems to be USB2 instead of USB3 (is it what you mean ?).

And... Like a man that doen't ask for directions I did not check for the necessity to have a driver for this, but finally checked further and executed the installation program...

I must admit that I was already happy with the results I get from my sound system, but this hobby... Well, I know you know

I will investigate as far as I can and will report back

Regards,

Alain

Hi Peter,

What email are you talking about What day is it ? What planet ? 

At least I did not acquire it for the reasons that I mentionned (I hope you will believe me)...

Yes I thought that the driver was doing something and true, it differs depending on what resolution. Strangely enough, from .5ms to 10ms, the spikes keep growing from one resolution to the nextr (the picture was taken at 10ms for the sake of the example), then at 15ms it goes down (looks as if it was at .5ms)... I will show more of this with my next post. I also played with Q1 but I was less sure about the differences. Anyway, I will show more pics about the CPU with different adjustements.

I will also check about the Bios updates. I would be surprised that it changes something, because the PC is quite recent, but who knows...

I will also write to Support at Adnaco, just to see what they have to say about this...

Will come back as soon as possible.

If in the meantime, someone has questions, suggestions, or music to make me feel better about this last expense...

Thanks

Alain

Has someone noted if it was more difficult to get a silent CPU core for music with the Adnaco S3B ?

Since I added the S3B, I can't get any core to be quiet, whichever core scheme I choose. I have 2 different pictures of my 2 cores, one without the S3B (with a quiet core), one with (no quiet core).

I also have encountered BSODs with this, whatever speed I select (there are dipswitches) between 5 GT/s and 2.5GT/s (Giga-Transfers per second).

I have a few pics included to show these results...

By the way, I only have a 2.6GHZ Intel CPU with 2 cores, 8GB of DDR 3 10600 RAM, in a Lenovo ThinkCentre Edge 71, very ordinary and cheap mobo (soundcard and video card all integrated), SPSU 180 watts, Noctua CPU fan at 800 rpm with a SOTM fan filter... (see sig).

Not sure what to make of this, but with the BSODs that I have encountered, plus the "pulse" that you can see (whatever scheme I try), I am not sure that this is a good addition ?

Alain

Hi Peter,

You are right, I never mentionned by about what percentage the pitch was lower than normal, but it sure was not half of the speed. Maybe the x4 and x2 thing got confusing. I would say that a 10% decrease in speed is about it.

Thanks !

Alain 

Hi Peter,

Is absolute polarity a thing you intend to include in your incoming version ?

Though there are some lists around, none is exhaustive and I can understand why, I am still unsure about the perceptions I should have between a song in absolute polarity and one in reversed ?

Hi Peter,

You can count me in also for a pair :-)

Regards,

Alain

Ah ok 

I tested different parameters, but...

I would say that it does not bother me, but it seems more music is available in either 24/44.1 or 24/48...

At least I keep on buying CDs I slowed down on 24/192 downloads... Too much... Cr.. ?

Regards

Mmmm ? Not sure I understand your answer ?

Oop... It seems that by replying to your post, the title is back to 9z-5-2...

Hi Peter,

It took me a while (...) to do the test with my ASUS computer, but I did it this morning and... Yes, the pitch has the same symptoms as with the 2 other PCs (HP laptop and Lenovo desktop).

Since I did not experiment this problem with my ASUS soundcard, my guess would be that with a 24 bit DAC (or with the Audiophilleo), there could be something wrong happening.

If you need more precision, please feel free to ask ?

Regards,

Alain

PS: I changed the title, since I changed the XXHE version when it came available...

  You are scary indeed 

But from all you have brought up til now, we can just salivate and imagine the new level you are preparing us to access 

Hi Peter,

To quote an expression, "You bet" I have created a restore point before anything else... And it has served already

As for other PCs (all purpose), I normally shut off this feature. I have always used my PC without protection (no antivirus, no anti-spam, no nothing) to allow the PC to function as fast as possible. And restoring function was one that I used to deactivate, before this incident happened.

It is the first time that I understand I would better leave this in function I am very happy to have it suggested and though it took (from an Acronis backup) 15 minutes to reinstall the OS, it is even a lot faster to revert to a restore point

I must admit though that if I install an OS for someone else, I don't deactivate those things. I do this only on my machines, because I feel that my choices do not have to be imposed to anyone else.

I feel I can do these things only because I have other protections (have 2 backups on different disks, one located at a different place). As I took care of some redundancy, I feel assured, but I certainly would not recommend something like this. I have seen so many folks who left all on their PC (pictures, documents, etc...) being almost depressed after a disk crash... It happened to me, but since I work for consultants (and learned about backups), I have disciplined myself in having more backups than less...

Regards,

Alain