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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: February 19, 2014, 06:05:47 pm
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Hello Peter, I was already writing my post about impressions with SFS 0.4 when you posted about SFS 0.1. So I've tried it, and despite some very sporadic skipping, the sound is fresh, powerful, dynamic and spacious with the the best of both W8 and W7 and even more. I haven't tried heaphones yet but I can imagine the results. So at last the loudspeakers weren't the culprits nor the amplifier of that strange divergence in SQ with the headphones (my apologies to them). Regards, Maxi
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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: February 12, 2014, 04:09:59 pm
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Hello, Some days ago I pointed out that trough headphones the SQ with XXHE 1.186 on W8 was the best ever while with loudspeakers was by far not so good. So time to try the XXHE last version on a new partition with W7 again as Peter has recently suggested. Well, with headphones I think the SQ has improved but it's not very apparent and more listening is needed. But with loudspeakers the difference is very clear and for the better of course. More bass, fresh highs (as I allways remember with W7) and the music out of the box again. The difference between headphones and loudspeakers is narrowed again and this drives me to the following thought: With headphones you perceive the spacial sensation in a quite artificial way with one ear not listening nothing of what the opposite ear is listening to. While with loudspeakers the two ears are listening the two speakers simultaneously (not to mention the third ear of which Peter talked about). So there must be something in the way that system behaves with W7 or with W8 that makes the difference between headphones and loudspeakers so ... different.
Maxi
P.D. Same settings as Peter except SFS 4
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Ultimate Audio Playback / Playback Tweaks and Source related subjects / Re: USB to PC chassis ground ? (noise) - The biggest change ever !
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on: January 25, 2014, 05:39:13 pm
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Thinking about Windows versions, XXHE versions and the last vibrations/isolation issues I have raised some doubts. Despite I replaced my injured regular first team amplifier (Canary Audio with a burnt output trafo) with my quite old "bench's reserve" Electrocompaniet AW75, I have noticed a huge difference between the music coming from my headphones and the one coming from the speakers. Before there was not so apparent, although it always sounded better with headphones (I think the speakers are the bottleneck here). But with the last XXHE version the difference has increased a lot. I suspect my amplifier/speaker combo cannot cope well with the new W8/XXHE team while through headphones sounds better than ever. So I have a divided heart. Maxi
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