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Ultimate Audio Playback / Playback Tweaks and Source related subjects / Re: Great PC Tweak - A Bert "Must Have"
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on: January 13, 2014, 02:15:25 am
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Yes I also find that sssss in the Silverstone and those hard highs are the bad part of the card, for the rest the sound is fantastic. For when we will be able to enjoy your linear ps?. Maybe a small model for the USB3.0 card as the one you're using for the Silverstone would be fine to start. What cable you are using to connect the Silverstone with the NOS1, an USB2.0 or an USB3.0 cable? Juan
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Ultimate Audio Playback / Your thoughts about the Sound Quality / Re: SQ of 1.186, best ever! (Again)
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on: January 11, 2014, 01:00:40 pm
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Hi Peter,
I´ve been trying with other settings, like Q1:6,3 and xQ:7,3,2,1 and others in between. Even some of those settings at Device Buffer Size: 2048. In my system I can´t notice substantial differences as to confirm that a setting is better than others. E.g. to Q1:6 and xQ:3 it seems to have less sibilances in the sssss vocals in the track I´m using to test it, but at the same time the fuller sound (the more organic or with a more integrated body) seems to be with the Q1:6 and xQ:10 (I´m always keeping the other Q values at 1 and SFS:120). So, I maintain my preference for the Q1:6 and xQ:10 but what I did is to toe a few mm. the speakers toward the out side of my centered position. As you don´t want to have only one listening position and you rather to have a good listening position from anywhere in your room I´d suggest you to move a bit your speakers to find again that sound from anywhere. Sometimes the changes in sound are so big with e.g. a new player or in our case with a new software or hardware that could be necessary to rethink again the acoustics in our room or perhaps at least the placement of the speakers. Often a slight change in the position of the speakers returns a sound that´s according to our preferences.
This is just a humble suggestion...
Kind regards, Juan
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Ultimate Audio Playback / Your thoughts about the Sound Quality / Re: SQ of 1.186, best ever! (Again)
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on: January 10, 2014, 10:02:20 pm
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Now YES!. I´ve installed the Silverstone USB 3.0 SST- EC04-P card and the sound is much better than with my previous Tecknet card. The sound stage is big, really big, even with my little Chartwell ls3/5a speakers, good bass, the best one I could get with this speaker considering its limitations. The highs are not smooth nor dry, are just as they should be: natural and clean. The sound is better than with my other card no matter the settings but I find that the settings suggested lately by Peter are the best ones so far with 1.186-a (Q1=6, -, Q3,Q4,Q5=1. xQ=10. SFS=120)
I agree totally with the ones that have this card, it is a fantastic achievement. It should be mandatory to install it.
Regards, Juan
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Ultimate Audio Playback / Your thoughts about the Sound Quality / Re: SQ of 1.186, best ever! (Again)
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on: January 09, 2014, 09:14:50 pm
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For the first time I could listen to my theoretically dialed in setting (that 6x10 / 1,1,1 / SFS=120). Well, I'd say it is totally different (than 1x1 / 1,1,1 / SFS=0.4) and the key is in the highs. Bass is super (was not 100%).
I tested Q1:6 xQ:10 / 1,1,1 / SFS=120 and I found also a very different sound compared in my case with Q1:6, xQ1:1/ 1,1,1 / SFS=2,0. With the first settings the sound is much more in front and the soundstage is reduced in comparison with the second settings that have the voices more in the rear part of the scene. I found the sound with the first settings a little dry and artificial. I prefer the second settings although maybe I´d like the voices a few steps in front from its position. Perhaps changing the SFS values to something in between 1,0 and 2,0 I would find the best for my taste. I´ll try it. Juan
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Ultimate Audio Playback / Playback Tweaks and Source related subjects / Re: How I can lower the CPU to around 0.45 Ghz?
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on: January 06, 2014, 01:05:20 pm
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It gives the feeling that we are treading on difficult terrain, if we can not keep a guide reasonably safe and suitable for all we have the risk that ultimately only two or three people can enjoy the best sound. We have mentioned here the problem that every time a new Windows OS shows, we should go to XX to adapt it to sound in the best possible way. This way XX is subject to the vagaries of Windows. The solution would be to create a new OS specific to XX, tough work I guess. We are seeing also the hardware problem. We are trying to build a linear power supply (well, Anthony is trying) and constantly we are fighting with mother boards that have not been created for what we pursue but for gaming, graphic design, etc.. As I have no idea of electronic design let me imagine a solution and forgive me if it is too naive.The same way that in the world of high end audio there are components that were created specifically why not also create a motherboard only for audio?, Should be versatile enough to use sound cards or able to adapt to the requirements of certain software like XXHE . If the audio world evolves in the direction of using the computer as a source, and I think it will, leaving other sources obsolete, will emerge hardware manufacturers that will create high end components. Probably prices will skyrocket because the high end is only for an elite. The only possible solution would be that we build this hardware. If Peter could do that with XXHE and the NOS1 Phasure, why would not to try to create from the base a new and specific OS and a specific hardware for our computer (motherboard, linear power supply, etc)?
Dreaming is free ...
Best regards, Juan
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