Hey Russ,
you are fast I admit that Yes new Windows is more for 'dummies' one click solution resolve OS and more flexible for touchscreens and multimedia systems where I think is his bigger advantage (at least on paper) but will be more clean than 7 and Windows7>Vista. So we all hope W8>W7>Vista
and ofc sounds better.
Regards, Cris.
P.S. I wanna try it too but not enough time

Hello Peter, guys
one friend just send me this link with windows 8 dev. vers.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/br229516
I'll try it later tonight to see how stable and operative is and will try to start XX but unfortunately I don't have good USB DAC now
Cheers, Cris.

Yea,
he should pay us! Joking ofc
Peter give a tip for the new ver.
Cris.

This June or July- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4v07kzah91A   AMD Opteron "Interlagos" with up to 16!!! physical cores on dual or quad AM3+ mobos. Dunno for you guys but 32 physical cores sounds scary for me.
Criss.

hmm ini=21 on mani sign. Is there ini's on z4?
Criss.

wow Mani where can read more about FPGA?
FPGA in musicaspect ofc.
Criss.

GO GO PETER!
But what about all other WiFi in the Neighbourhood, the City and etc. Or only short distance devices can disturbe and input peak noises?
Criss.

For me it's worst!
Criss.

http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/lock-pages-in-memory-win-7-home-edition
Dunno if it's work!
Criss.

Excellent review Mani!
Criss.

...if you don't see the wind it does not mean it is not there!
Well z4 with MC (can't afford SC ) is MILES ahead that x3 with aprox. same settings! And no other settings in z3 can't reach the sound stage, 3d eff. and liquid of z4 sound!!!! Well here comes and the first fact:
Clock Res on 12ms is better versus 0.5ms!
Q1= -1 ...yes best low freq you can get!
That's for now.OVER!
Stay massive!
Criss.

Well for 15 min listening...Peter BRAVO! There is nothing, NOTHING wrong with the hights...they just sounds the way they are recorded! YES that's the way for me. Transperancy! Ofc now some albums will sound rusty, edgy, screamy...but hey there is nothing else we can do. That's RECORDING STUDIO and ARTIST(s) problem now!
Beautiful Balance and sounding! That's all I can say for now. Don't wanna go in 3d, soundstage, impact, sonicity, etc. etc. Just sounds very very good and right for me!
Once again BRAVO Peter! A true HI-END player!
Kind Regards, Criss.

Well first the Solid Capacitator: Aluminium core, lower tempreture and mostly "Extreme lowe ESR"-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equivalent_series_resistance wich is very importante but dunno how low is that ESR
Second Icy chokes...very good low temperature!
And some Hi-C Capacitator wich are Highly-Conductive Polymerized Capacitators with TANTALUM CORE! Which is very good! Well..if you can grab and tast it GO! But don't know if there gone be a huge difference.
Criss.

Off:
WoW...where you found S2? GZ!

Peter,
you say that spining disc is sounding better over SSD? (with all other improvements OS SFS etc. etc.).
But did you try W7  on SSD too?
Criss.