BTW Peter, my Latency checker reads 162 Microsec. max during UnAttended playing. Is this low enough? Or can it still be lower with other settings? Which? Thanks in advance.

Hello Peter,
Thanks for your advices, I wil try them out asap.
Of course I like real low frequencies. What I mean with warmth is: low mids (or hig bass) It is a very subtile thing and perhaps something personal: I have Planars, so they have no "box-like" sound, for they are not "boxes". In some recordings (perhaps (almost certainly..) monitored on "boxes"), some soundtechnicians will compensate this. This will have the effect on my speakers that the sound will be slightly "lean"
For this sort of recordings or other dull recordings (mostly Pop/Rock) I sometimes use my Aural Exciter Aphex 204. It ads some 2th harmonics to the bass sound, thus "thickens" it. I could also do that with the high frequencies. You may find it a horrific thing for high-end use, but it has the effect, that sounds of drums and cymbals, the s-sounds from voices will appear a bit apart from the recording. So it ads room for them. You can hear them better in the mix. It makes the sound less dull in a subtle manner. BTW: this apparatus is used in soundrecording studios since the seventies.

Hi Fellow XXHighenders, 
the last few weeks, I'm a "believer" like you all here. I started my listening to WAV files since3 december 2010 via Foobar 2000, since it was recommended by the supplier om my new HTPC. I was a happy listener, because with this software this PC/Soundcard sounded a lot better than my old and loyal Meridian 588 Player (Price in 2002: Euro 3200,= or so) But, I bought a dedicated HTPC because my good friend Johan is a true XXHe-believer since the stone-age. I listened to the progress of XXHe since many years and with the release of 0.9 Z4-1 it was clear to me, that it was a good product, albeit a bit ugly and rather complicated and tweaky to use.
But, if it was better on my PC than Foobar? Since my pal didn't want to compare it with Foobar on his system, the only way to find out was to try it myself. Till then, XXHe and it followers seemed to me like a sort of cultus, following a Guru, who spoke in tongues   
Well, trying XXHe was not thàt simple for me. I had all kinds of trouble in installing XXHe and making it work properly. Screens full of warning messages in some sort of computerlanguage and all   
But now, TADA!: Yes, it's working all right. All my settings of XXHe are written below. The SQ is outstanding. Especially with live recordings from classical -, jazz - and other sorts of instrumental music the soundstage is livelike. Applause and yelling from the public is allmost like real. All the fine details-in-the-details. The cymbals: finally like real. With 16 Bits source. The only (small) remark: I have sometimes the illusion, that some extra "warmth" in the mix would be nice. Especially with some Pop and Rockmusic this is noticeable. Or is it that the recordings are lousy? My Magnepans are not that "bassy" sounding, but if a recording has real low frequencies (like Mussorgsky's Pictures by Jean Guillou) The drinking glasses are walking out of the cupboard. Perhaps I have to try some other settings here and there. Any suggestions?

Hi Gerard,
I live in the centre of a big city and I'm an Audio enthousiast. That's a tricky combination, I can tell you. It took me years and thousands of Euro's to maximise the elimination of the bad external influences on the electrical powernet, also from outdoors (factories, heavy machineries etc)  I installed coppershielded main power cables, (also in the walls), put a Highend filter before my High Fi gear (only the front-end, I wanted my main amps to connect as open as possible with the powernet) and put a special HiFi main fuse in the system. Only now, after all the efforts, I can enjoy music also during daytime (albeit that it's still a better sq during the evening and night)
greetings, HW