Hi all,
I'm following this discussion for some days now and I have also "downgraded" to Windows Vista, same result as for you all, sound is so much better now. I always thought that we are talking about software induced jitter, but I'm using an Apogee Big Ben reclocker that should eliminate all jitter so that the resulting sound should be the same regardless of the input. But the difference in SQ is still so big that I don't believe that the bits coming out of Vista and W7 are really the same. W7 sounds more like XP, as if everything is resampled.
Can we exclude this possibility ? And if yes how can the difference in SQ be explained ?

regards,
Bernd

Hi Peter,
in some cases I prefer attended mode, especially if I evaluate some new music. If you don't want to hear everything then attended is more practical. So this is not really a big problem for me, but it seems to be a bug that you possibly can fix in one of the next versions (together with better SQ of course  ).

Now I must continue listening to music with xxhighend...

Bernd

Hi Peter,
I'm having a licensed version and I'm using the latest 0.9y-8 version. I have the Hiface and I'm using adaptive mode, Quad and Arc prediction, buffer is 1024 and q1 is 1 (so more or less exactly your settings). If I'm starting a track the position slider starts moving before the track really starts and in the end the track stops before it has really ended (about 5 seconds with 200kb file buffer). The slider has reached the right end position then. If I increase the file split size it's becoming worse, if I reduce it to 50 it is nearly working well. This happens in attended and unattended mode, on two sperate PC's (bith win7 64bit) and with 2 different USB converters. I think in the olders versions I have not seen this problem. Do you have any suggestions ?
If I use Anti Image I don't have this problem.

And: together with the Hiface xxhighend is the best sounding source I ever had.

best regards,
Bernd

Hi Peter,
I'm just testing your player, it works nice on my headphone system (Headphone amp Meier Opera with USB or SPDIF via onboard sound), but it does not work on my main system (PC with Audigy 2NX USB soundcard). It starts playing normally for some seconds, then I get some clicks and this gets worse every second. After 10 seconds you can't hear much of the music. Any idea what can be the reason ? I have tried the latest 5 versions of your player, it's always the same. I'm using Vista of course, the onboard sound does work, so it's not a general problem of my PC.

any ideas are welcome.

regards,
Bernd