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Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: Network Access in Minimised
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on: March 18, 2014, 11:32:31 pm
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Hi Alain,
My NAS manages the drives itself so I don't know what format they are to be honest, but it runs Linux so I guess a Linux format. I use Raid5 which keeps a duplicate of every piece of information on another drive and the drives should be matched in pairs (same capacity) although this is not essential. On top of this I backup the NAS to another computer on the network which means that I have my info on at least three local drives.
Anthony
Thanks Anthony. I am still struggling with some obstacles about having a NAS, but I certainly find that alternative interesting. Alain
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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: March 09, 2014, 11:31:18 pm
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Peter, Thinking about it, there are a few things that come to mind... First, if you go on with the speaker efficiency, you will reach the threshold of pain sooner than later Second... This is more a question than a remark, but... What is it that MS puts in their Windows that affect the sound in one direction or the other depending on the version ? I thought that they were allowing a "bypass" for things like KS ? Finally, when I will be able to regain my whole sound system, I will try to compare again USB 2 against USB 3. I just did a DPC latency checker (thesycon) with W7 and the silverstone and there is a "burst" happening at intervals that wasn't there when using USB 2 ? Wouldn't this make USB 2 better than USB 3 ? I just remembered this lately, but it was like this some 2 years ago... Alain EDIT: I am seriously drifting from the thread...
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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: March 03, 2014, 01:21:35 am
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Dear oh dear - Here I am with one Windows install already upgraded to 8.1 (I'm assuming no way to downgrade; original W8 install was a download I didn't save - let me know if this assumption is incorrect) and the other at W7, wondering whether to buy another copy of W8 to upgrade the W7 install.
So is 8.1 completely hopeless? Has anyone tried it in the past week or so during which Peter has once again found some merit in W8?
Hi Jud, It seems that W8.1 would be a new "cracker" like W8 was when comparing to W7 about a year ago... Since we are still struggling with W8, I presume that W8.1 is/was not an important concern, apart from the fact that W8 versions are more complicated to find nowadays, not to say impossible... About getting W8 again... Maybe there are still some stores that carry W8 ? I looked around but it would require that you have your product key to validate your request for W8... Maybe Microsoft support ? Regards, Alain
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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: March 03, 2014, 12:58:12 am
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Hi Robert,
When I started playing with the ramdrive, I was using only 512MB for XXHE as a second ramdisk.
Peter explained that more was needed for the XXHE ramdrive, but in specific situations like HDCD music or FLAC - any other format than WAV.
Since I do not really have many HDCDs (one could deactivate the feature) and all my music is in WAV format, I could continue using only 512MB (I could even go lower than that). This of course stands only for the XXHE ramdrive, not for the music ramdrive...
Regards,
Alain
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