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Ultimate Audio Playback / Your thoughts about the Sound Quality / Re: 9Y-6 special mode
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on: February 17, 2010, 04:54:29 pm
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I agree Ivo. With engine 3 all music sounds better with AP. Engine 4 is where I find that classical or more complex music is better with all upsampling in XX turned off. Vocals or less complex music, such as Julian Bream and John Williams, Together and Together Again recordings, sound best with AP turned on (engine 4). Will be interested to hear what you find when you start using engine 4.
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Ultimate Audio Playback / Your thoughts about the Sound Quality / Re: 9Y-6 special mode
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on: February 17, 2010, 02:32:27 pm
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Hi Ivo. On the Freire recording I uncheck "double" which undoes all upsampling.
Dunno about "there is no such thing as depth". On vocals, especially, there's layers of richness that just weren't there before. It is GOOD, very, very GOOD! (Of course, to these ears on this system.....)
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Ultimate Audio Playback / Your thoughts about the Sound Quality / Re: 9Y-6 special mode
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on: February 17, 2010, 01:19:58 pm
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Thanks Telstar, I haven't heard that recording. With the Freire recording, which isn't that great, no AP is best.
One thing I noticed last night was the "depth" of the sound stage that kernel streaming has brought. 9y--5-02, engine 3, now sounds flat or horizontal compared to the 3 dimensional sound of kernel streaming. Whats is amazing to me is that the depth isn't about "placement" but rather about a harmonic richness that's lacking in engine 3. (Being new to "great audio" I really don't know how to describe this stuff!)
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Ultimate Audio Playback / Your thoughts about the Sound Quality / Re: 9Y-6 special mode
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on: February 16, 2010, 03:16:10 am
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Gettin' lost here: For singer songwriter vocalists, Eva Cassidy, Patty Griffin, Jackson Browne, Dylan, James Taylor etc., its kernel streaming with 2x arc prediction: they have never sounded so good. But for classical, (Bach violin concertos, Ann-Sophie Mutter) turn off arc prediction for the kind of precision and separation between instruments offered by engine 3. For Rock and roll, dunno, don't really listen to it that much, but I'd think no AP would be better.
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Ultimate Audio Playback / Your questions about the PC -> DAC route / S/PDIF Cable
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on: February 15, 2010, 01:19:57 pm
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I'm currently connecting my usb/spdif converter (M-Audio) to my dac with a 12 inch, six dollar spdif cable. In anticipation of getting the Hiface happening, I am wondering if upgrading such a short cable will make much of a difference. Prices of cables are really unbelievable. Is a .5 meter cable that costs $125 really worth it?
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