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Ultimate Audio Playback / Playback Tweaks and Source related subjects / Re: Does Improving PC PSU and Reducing PC EMI/RFI Improve SQ?
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on: November 03, 2009, 09:23:26 pm
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Very interesting topic! Now I wonder if a spdif/connection from a soundcard to an external DAC would be better sounding then using the SPDIF-connector on the motherboard. The latter goes through the northbridge, southbridge and a Realtek-codec (ALC889A), while the former goes through northbridge pci-expres and soundcard. Any idea's/experiences?
I have the Juli@ for that purpose only, Maybe the Asus Essence will be a better choice, now a days. I have tried the onboard ones on both Gigabytes boards and they sound horrible. I have expressed this before, I believe.
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Ultimate Audio Playback / Playback Tweaks and Source related subjects / Re: Does Improving PC PSU and Reducing PC EMI/RFI Improve SQ?
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on: November 03, 2009, 06:13:19 pm
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I think it is cheaper to invest in a motherboard that supplies really good power to the PCI slots. The new Gigabytes are brilliant in this respect by the way.
I have made this exact change some months ago, went frome GA-EP35-DS4 to GA-EP45-EXTREME (overclockers-board)(both Gigabyte) This improvement was quite BIG ! Did not expected that to happen, but it really does. Roy PS: the more of those black square cubes (or how do you call them!)(for power supply) on there the better. (look at the black square blocks around cpu)
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Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: 0.9y-4 - w00t ... but
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on: November 01, 2009, 12:43:54 am
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Just listening to Klaus Shulze - 1980 - Dig It/01 - Death of an Analog (I like complex music) With ARC ofcourse. Have like 126 albums of him, Tangerine Dream same deal. They all start to sound fresh again, keep in mind these are very difficult albums to get out of the digital domain. Will sound very harsh on normal cd-player. Now I can open up the volume and they still keep sounding good, just amazing
That SQ you would NEVER EVER experience with any CD-player.
New installed Juli@ drivers make it slightly better too for me, I think
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Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: 0.9y-4 - w00t ... but
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on: October 31, 2009, 09:36:11 pm
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Unfortunately, there are too many who still have their head stuck in the old CD player paradigm....but they will be assimilated soon!
I know lots of those people too, but some are a bit afraight of PC's, I guess You have to be willing to LEARN, and spend some evenings reading. And setup a dedicated audio-pc. Its not that hard! (maybe just harder to admit.....)
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Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: 0.9y-4 - w00t ... but
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on: October 31, 2009, 06:37:51 pm
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When playing Unattended there can be nice coverart there. (where those red crosses from xx are) Use folder.jpg for front cover and use back.jpg as back cover and put it in the same folder as your music Later on when you start ripping your cd collection, start off the good way in making your self a fine music-gallery. (and good folder structure) But first start ripping. XX is most complete software outthere even for maintaining large music db up +10.000's albums
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Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: 0.9y-4 - w00t ... but
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on: October 31, 2009, 05:53:44 pm
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BTW, what have you found to be the best CD ripper software?
You want to get your fine albums on your HDD. Haha Are you familiar with EAC (Exact Audio Copy) Do you have any experience on that, already? Otherwise I can paste some links here.(about optimal settings) PS: Peter is also working on this (especially to get xx to play cd's "realtime" as well, with that great SQ, too) And when he can do that, xx can rip it too. But later on, maybe never. Take my words for it, use A Blu-ray writer drive for that (its not proven that its rips better, but believe me it does) Something like LG, have to look for the model-type
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Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: 0.9y-4 - w00t ... but
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on: October 31, 2009, 04:46:21 pm
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Later on this week we talk about Unattended settings, haha Oh yes, it gets better and better But first we have to be sure all your settings are fine (soundcard and such) Its not the most used connection you have there AES, I mean. Maybe do some more reading about your souncard and cable connection. Don't rush, take your time! Little jealous on your berkeley
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Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: 0.9y-4 - w00t ... but
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on: October 31, 2009, 04:37:40 pm
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These are some what good settings for most people,
Try to get what it does later (step by step) there is lots of info about that already on forum, just look for them (these can be quite technical, but its good information)
See pic 6 I added, try to get it like this, but do it step by step.
See pic 7 these are the Q= sliders (there is info about that either) use for now 0,0,0,0 or 30,30,0,0 like mine.
Try to find out what it does for you, lots of reading to do, haha XX will grow on you!!
Happy listening
these are most important:
allow format change start engine3 during conversion copy to xx-drive by standard
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