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Ultimate Audio Playback / Playback Tweaks and Source related subjects / Re: Review of Nicks Tweeks
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on: June 03, 2012, 01:47:12 pm
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So I've been on the road most of this week. Driving home yesterday it occurred to me that the substantial difference in sound that I heard between a track ripped directly to the OS drive and one ripped to an internal storage drive might have had other influences: the track on the internal storage drive was ripped a year or so ago with the optical drive in my cheap Dell, and the same track on the OS drive was ripped with my new Plextor PX-L890SA (thanks Juan). When I got home I reripped the track with the Plextor onto the storage drive. Damn, even with the storage drive plugged in, I'm having a very hard time discerning any difference between the track played from the OS drive and a track played from the internal storage drive. One thing is for sure, the optical drive used to rip your tunes makes a big difference. As for Nick's tweeks, still sorting through 'em.
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Ultimate Audio Playback / Music Storage and convenient playback / dbpoweramp question
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on: May 31, 2012, 03:32:43 am
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Can you guys with 64 bit systems adjust the rip speed in the settings area of dbpoweramp? On my 32 bit system the rip speed is adjustible and I've used the slowest setting. On my 64 bit system the only rip speed option is Maximum. I sent dbpoweramp an email but haven't gotten a reply. Just wondering.....
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Ultimate Audio Playback / Playback Tweaks and Source related subjects / Re: Review of Nicks Tweeks
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on: May 28, 2012, 10:04:40 pm
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Thanks Nick, Iv'e had the PCIe card from the beginning. Have you specifically compared a filed ripped directly to your OS to one pasted there from another drive? Just wondering. Here there is a definite decrease in "glare" with the file directly ripped to the OS, similar to the difference when one unplugs unused drives.
It's really going to take some time to sort through all the possibilities. Very much appreciate your shared findings!
Brian
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Ultimate Audio Playback / Playback Tweaks and Source related subjects / Review of Nicks Tweeks
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on: May 28, 2012, 08:58:21 pm
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Nick's (intitial) tweeks on his new system are pretty significant so I thought it might be a good idea to put them in a topic of their own. (If this isn't agreeable please delete this thread) They are reprinted below: Summary of tweeks.
1) Eliminate ALL fans (CPU fan case fans etc) 2) Take power off ALL drives but one (OS XX and Music on the single HDD) 3) Power the one HDD from a linear power supply 4) Remove power connections from DVD and Floppy Drives etc 5) Turn off hyper threading 6) Over Clock the CPU 7) Disable CPU “Clock Spreading” Turn off Intel Virtualisation 9) Use PCIe USB 3 (NEC chipset) 10) XX processor scheme 3, SFS around 350mb, 11) Hygiene factor tweeks (Old hat stuff but for good measure) a. Disable Data Execution support (in Bios) b. Disable all Devices not needed for music (extra SATA controllers, USB ports etc etc in Device Manager) c. Disable all devices not used for Music in Bios (Mobo USB, Sound card, COM ports etc) (Points 1 to 10 all have an effect individually, but together they really move music to the next level.
This post is specifically about 2 and 4 above which I would think should be the same for everybody. I was really surprised that #2, putting music directly on the OS/XX drive would make such a significant difference for the better, but it does. I have always used a secondary internal drive to store music, I've never kept any music on the OS drive. Today I ripped a cd directly to the C Drive music folder and was surprised at how much better it sounded. The SQ improved more when I unplugged the DVD drive and the secondary music drive--#4 above. For me this is both good and bad news: all improvements in SQ are good. Bad, though, because it looks like I might need to move the OS to a two or three terabyte drive so I can reripp my music to it.......a bit of a daunting task at this point. Why rerip? Well I tried to copy/paste music files from the secondary drive to the OS drive any they didn't sound as good as the music ripped directly to the OS drive! Anyone know of a good therapist, I might be in need of one!
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Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: SFS issue
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on: May 28, 2012, 04:11:20 pm
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Thanks for all the input. Problem was solved with a 512 mb Nvidia card. Really it makes no sense to me that the ASUS, 1 gig, card caused this SFS limitation. I rebooted numerious times using different SFS values with the ASUS card and it just wouldn't work over 414. I finally gave up when I got the following message: Ha!
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Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: SFS issue
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on: May 27, 2012, 02:24:41 pm
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Thanks Cohen and Peter. Still no solution. What does the below tell in your case ? (this is an 8GB system, nothing allocated by XXEngine3 at this time) With nothing allocated by Engine 3 the memory use is 1.22 gig. If irc it was a videomemory issue. All accellerators off, lowest possible clock and low screen resolution solved it. My graphics card is a cheap ($39) ASUS branded ATI 5450, fanless, with one gig of memory. reducing clock speed to lowest, lowest resolution, etc, makes no difference. Though the sound is phenominal I'd like to have all working properly. Do you think using a card with less memory would make a difference?
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Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / SFS issue
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on: May 26, 2012, 01:58:22 pm
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Weird, the largest SFS I can get is exactly 414-one tick higher is a no go. Using 16 gigs of memory should allow for a higher SFS? To you various and sundry XX Guru's, any thoughts on what might be causng the limitation?
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