And those who expressed so far have to deal with apples and oranges.
Well here we are at another day, with a new set of alpha waves coursing through the head, and a few more pieces of fruit to mix in with the apples and oranges !
I'm having a hard time coming to any definite conclusion now as to what sounds better in my setup. While remaining within the Windows7 environment, I've been flipping between Engine#3 (both analogue and digital output from the Juli@ card) and Engine#4 (restricted to analogue only), and trying different combinations of None/Double/Quad sampling with/without Arc Predictor, together with Q2/Q3 set to 30/30 or 0/0.
When using Engine#4 I'm tending towards settings of Q2/Q3 at 0/0 and having NO sampling engaged.
When using Engine#3 I'm tending to remain with the Double/AP together with Q2/Q3 at 30/30, and may have a subconscious factor at play here as that is what I've been using for some months now under Vista.
Now, this inability to get a definitive preference may be due to the processor I use having a global influence, limiting the effects on anything connected upstream. Certainly connecting either analogue or digital would bring into being different internal routes within the processor.
Regardless of my ability to come to a conclusion,
it all sounds great !
I'll play the devils advocate here for a moment and pose the question whether or not subconscious thoughts are influencing our preferences for one engine over another, or that one set of parameters is better than the other. One sure way to come to an answer to that would be to have someone else make the parameter changes without your knowledge of what has been changed ( if anything ) and evaluate each set of changes on their merits. In essence, doing some blind testing.
Cheers all,
Russ