Ha !

Not necessary !

Hey Arjan,


If all is "normal" (?) that doesn't work.
This one does and is fine (as far as I myself can see) :


Regards,
Peter

Hi Tore,

All I asked (or told about) was setting TurboBoost to Disable.
Of course you can drag in a 200 other settings in the game (you again mentioned something else) but this is nit what I wanted anyone to do.

For now (if you want to play with this setting at all) :

1. Load back XX01;
2. Disable Turbo Boost;
3. Save and reboot.

Then you have the same as I do (if you leave all other settings alone ).

Best regards,
Peter

March 29, 8am (GMT/UTC + 2) the forum will be down for hopefully not more tan 4 hours.

Peter

What ? ... OK, that implies we forgot that. This is possible.
So you mean that you can't find any XX01 to load back, while you sure found were to be for that ? (like Save to Disk is also an option) ?


This is already less plausible because I test this all myself.
Still can happen, but now it would mean two subsequent errors. Normally we make none ! haha
Really ?


For the answer to my question "how ?" The crucial part seems to be missing - how do you end up with Turbo  Boost disabled and the ration not to 100. But also : you talk about "Cache" Ratio, and that is not right ...

Regards,
Peter

Hi Zheng,

If i was you who asked the question to which the text you quoted was the answer, than you asked about an MQA DAC and let that decode. So only then the -0dBFS (-0dB relative to Full Scale) is required. And if yuo then don't have a pre-amp or other attebuation means behind it (or in the DAC) you are out of luck.

XXHighEnd's MQA decoding works reardless.

Regards,
Peter

Tore,

What did you do for that ?

Thanks,
Peter

OK Tore. For your (and everybody's) information, all on ComputerAudiophile is by now completely sick / ill-minded about MQA.

Maybe you thought you were reading some objective information in that "article" you linked to, but it isn't.

More FYI : That guy is capable of proving that you, me and everybody else in here are fools because he will prove by measurement that we can't differentiate between two situations he applies measurements to, but where he can't find a difference in because he already does not know what to measure or look for. He thinks he knows though and he expresses so.

So because he can not measure a difference between your SFS=1 and SFS = 10, you are deaf.
Do you hear ?
(he never did this exactly but there are numerous other examples which wouldn't make a single sense to you or me).

I read 10% of it to see what what nonsense it is about this time.

Please keep in mind that this is not really related to my own point of view on MQA. I may not even have one.

Best regards,
Peter

Hi Tore,

Yes, that is what I noticed too, but the net result after booting and "XXHighEnd interference" is the same as with the Ratio set.

I don't know yet where the difference is, but with my own Stealth I can set both the Ratio and disable Turbo Boost at the same time. I can't imagine that the MoBo matters, but of course mine is two years old by now and yours is only a couple of months old (similar to the other PC which behaves like you describe).

Best regards and thank you for sharing,
Peter

Hi Tore,

Yes, for 10% maybe.
Why ?

Peter

Hi Robert,

Did I read something about "distortion" which I can't find back any more, or wasn't it you writing this, or did I perhaps dream ?

No problem to put it back, if it was you in the first place !

Regards,
Peter

Thank you all for the feedback so far !

I myself, lately, find myself to be in the middle of a new phenomenon : complaints about too loud playing. Not in absolute sense, but to the -in the end logical- sense that people who try to listen through headphones to Games, YouTubes or other, now have difficulty in not hearing "my music" louder.

But it will be true ...

It now regularly happens that I play 4.5-6dB louder than (I think) prior to the SFS = 5.19 setting, just because it all can have it. It goes more effortless and there seems to be no reason not to put up the volume (says the audio idiot).
I also think that "we" may put our volume to limits quite always, where the limits are determined by what's still justified by good sound. And not so much by loud sound.

All 'n all we have the odd situation that still nobody complaints when the music is (say 6dB) louder than other times just because there's nothing to complain really (no hurting ears), while at the same time it *is* louder and overvoices anything coming from headphones which or can't be louder or can't be put louder becaus then *that* hurting. .

Strange problem and hard to solve (says again the audio idiot).

Peter

PS: Might you have the idea of having messed up in the BIOS, there's a save version for everbody under the "XX01" name. You can chose it as "Restore from disk" or something like that (you will easily find it when it is needed).

Regards,
Peter

To all owners of the Mach II XXHighEnd PC :

Because I am struggeling with one of the PCs a little, by sheer accident I found a setting which made me think "wait ...".

Under Advanced, in the CPU tab, we normally adjust the Ratio. That is, we over here do that for you new owners. I did this (already with the old XXHighEnd PC) so the speed of the processor becomes "fixated" to something which will not engage Turbo Boost.
Then I had this problem with one of the PCs and that PC told me that Turbo Boost could engage anyway. Huh ?
By also accident I learned the other day that Turbo Boost can also be disengaged explicitly. OK, this is in another motherboard, but with that knowledge I started looking for that in this PC. Well, easy to find because it is there all in the wide open (a few lines below the Ratio). So I set that to "Disabled" and for this PC it helped.

Because Turbo Boost officially can't be engaged with the Ratio is set to other than "Auto" I got the idea that maybe it always does something, or tries to do something (this latter could even be worse). I mean, also in my own Stealth, and of course yours. And who knows we could improve SQ by means of now explicitly turn it off.

Well, I don't know about you, but for me it is a whole of another world again. I am not sure it is for the better in the end, but I feel it inherently is and if it isn't (apears not to be) for net result, it is something else which requires attention now.

So I feel that this imlpies a next dimension of tuning for the again better SQ.

Peter