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

OK Colin, great.


Yes, something like that. But the real problem is that it should be in the RAM-OS Disk. I probably didn't do that (at the time) for the (16GB anticipating) HDD version of it, anticipating that it wouldn't be sold soon (while the SSD for 32GB was/is). And then I forgot ...

Good that it solved for you now.
Regards,
Peter

Hi Zheng - Hard to say.
I occasionally need to do the same (hard reboot, though for different reasons). I am always happy that my OS booted from RAM and nothing will change to the "base" OS it is derived from.
(never mind in understanding, and I just expressed my thoughts about your worries).

What happens if you switch off the amps (to be certain no strange noises will occur) and you pull the USB cable ?
Theoretically it is possible that the Sound Engine (givens an error and) stops nicely and with that XXHighEnd is brought up and with that the connection is re-established.

Of course it is better to find the cause and "repair" that, but ...


Thank you very much for sharing this !
This is quite logical but now I have a means to repeat the situation and thus the possibility to solve this in software.
Of course I can't use my RAM-OS for this, so I'd need hard reboots of the "base" OS to test it.

Best regards and thank you,
Peter

Robert,

When the input is 24/176.4 and the output is set to the same, I'd say that Arc Prediction shouldn't do a thing. There just is nothing to do (Custom works differently, though).

But there's always this "Volume" issue and if it is related to that indeed, I won't be able to find it.
Checking for whether Arc Predition indeed does nothing is easy. So I should do that soon ...

Regards,
Peter

Hi Zheng - Yes, exactly that and explicitly.
So the Music Server PC does not only hold the music (disks/storage) if it were for me, it is also the one connected to the Internet and does the Tidal thing. This indeed requires an activated XXHighEnd on that PC, but you get it for free for your "household". The Windows version does not matter (from of XP) and the speed of the PC hardly (it can be "slow").
The PC does not need to be set up for playback really because you don't use that. So the SQ coming from it is irrelevant. It must be able to play though (say via the MoBo's sound device) for the general setup. But you wouln't need lousdpeakers/headphones for it.

Regards,
Peter

PS:
Not at all. But try to have them in a relevant (new) topic. Already for me it is crucial to find back things (years) later, let alone for yourselves ...

Even better :

Setting the Timers for a boot from RAM.

Peter

Colin :

XX from RAM differences compared to playing from boot drive.

Regards,
Peter

Hi Colin,

No. The description has been here more often (and I'd say you witnessed that) as when this is your situation, then you'd need to reapply everything which starts with undoing it all. So first explicitly set to "not the best etc.." (can be done in MinOS BASE), and check to be certain once in the RAM boot (should stay as you already have it). THEN set to "best settings" (etc.).
And notice that you can only do one by one so it's a lengthy procedure. I recall from the earlier description that it requires 6 boots or so.

Point remains :
a. did you have it right 100% definitely, previouslly;
b. if Yes, what happened that undid it.

... wait ...
Hey, nothing is telling me that you had it right !!
Your RAM-OS Disk is too new for that and I don't recall we discussed it.
So it is that. You just never set it.
BUT ALSO :
Your RAM-OS Disk is special because it wasn't taken from the standard "SSD Base". See ? never even want such things ...
So the BASE for the HDD apparently was never adjusted by me for this. I recall I did for the SSD base alright.

Kind regards,
Peter

Hi David,


Is it possible, please, to create a new topic for this with adequate description (unless you already started a topic about this problem - which I recall vaguely, then please put this in there). Also denote in there which XXHighEnd version this is about, OK ?

I ask, because this problem is a different one , IMO.
If you don't see me respond on it today, then please retry tomorrow. I am going to find some beers right now ...

Best regards,
Peter

PS:
Just saw this update. If all is fine, then don't bother, obviously. And congrats in that case !

Oh, I just noticed that I have my Nervous Rate at 10. So yes, I did this since it was possible to save it to other than 100 anyway (see 2.10 Release Notes).

I hope my Sig is up to date now.

Peter

No ! I am wrong here !!
By now I can't even tell how and where I looked, but I have it at 52.
I suppose looking after 3 hours of sleep and a party last night, isn't the best idea. But I caught up sleep a bit and now I thus see 52.


Thank you Stanley ! (although I just noticed myself while working on an other PC and then checked by own).

Btw, I am sure I was also influenced by the fact that since 14393.0 we also can go *under* the 42 with effect. So I recall that in some XXHighEnd version I had to exclude 42 from the "application" because else we couldn't dial in the normal situation. For those who like it - you must dial somewhat further down to see additional effect. I recall 35. But careful because when set too low, your PC will barely run and become too unresponsive. Als always activate "Boost at XXHighEnd Startup".

Thanks and regards,
Peter

Hi Mani,


Good question ...

I am sitting back here for 5 minutes, but have yet to come up with an answer ...
Because of that I'll need to look in the program and trace down what happens in which situation, but one answer would be that Custom applies the filter regardless, hence as not being part of the upsampling step (Arc Prediction itself does) - but which does not explain the difference between Nothing and Arc Prediction. That is, I must take it that between these two latter you also perceive a difference.

Regards,
Peter