Hi Kuo-Yao,

1. Please read a few posts back too, addressed to you.

2. Can you please send me a track name in chinese ? Send this *and* by means of copy paste in here *and* a copy-paste by email in the email body, *and* via an attachment and copy-paste in a Notepad file. I just don't know how I will receive it.
What I want you to do (when you have the time) is the following :

a.
Load that one track in the Playlist Area of XXHighEnd, and see if you can get the error with that one track only. I hope you can, otherwise things will be too cumbersome for you.

b.
Your track will be in a folder structure, like c:\MyMusic\Dance\The Dance Group\01-First nice track.wav
Now I would like you to copy each piece of that structure separately, so it becomes

c:
MyMusic
Dance
The Dance Group
01-First nice track.wav

Of course you have your own data, including the driver letter !
Copy-paste those lines as how I described before.
From this I will be able to mimic a music track with this folder structure, and see what happens. Probably I can't deal with it anyway because of the codeset I use, but if we don't try we get nowhere.
In the mean time I will look in the program whether I can find a solution from theories.

Another question : I assume you always had this ?

Lastly, please look at the title of this post. Have that in your reply the same, otherwise later I can't find it back. It should have been in a separate topic anyway ...

A lot of questions, but I hope we can solve it. Thanks for your help,
Peter


PS: You can do the copy paste of those parts easily by means of going to each folder (and in the end the file) and start Rename. Instead of renaming it, press ctrl-c to copy the contents.

Thank you Leo.

Leo, do you still have the idea it was solved for you ?

Did you use the *latest* zip ? there are two in this topic now !
You should have used the one from this post : http://www.phasure.com/index.php?topic=689.msg4966#msg4966

I'll come back on the chinese characters.

I don't think it will be wood, or it must be additional decoration. Wood doesn't act much as a shield, and to me it doesn't look exactly better either. Personal of course.
And as Leif said acrylic ... the same.

I am still fighting with the I2S solution and the space it will need, which is the main reason I can't proceed on this hence show anything. But I will as soon as I'm done with it.

On battery power ...

So far I don't see (by measuring) how that would impact the performance of the DAC. Not in this case, not with this PSU.
This is all in the context of the distortion I have on my mains, which is rather - no the most bad anyway. Note though that a distortion like this - and as how I expressed it can be noticed (just through speakers) is unrelated to the provision of power. IOW, there is no way this tone is coming into the DAC, and that it amplifies it or wants to D/A it or whatever.
The DAC is about the most steady PSU for voltage and current imaginable, and it does just that. For example and your imagination, if I'd connect a 100W lightbulp to the supply the DAC is using, and assuming all can bear the amperage coming from that, nothing will ripple or change. This is the self defending mechanism of the PSU, which comprises 95% of the DAC circuitry. This is also why the DAC has such a low forceful output, because nothing can steal current from it, and with a DAC this would be mainly the DAC fighting itself.

Besides this, like many I have my doubts about battery power;
Dave, is you have a PS Audio and you have it for quite a while, move it out of the way for a few minutes and listen. If you say "all is worse" then you're ok. But I don't think you will say that.

Of course, battery power for main amps etc. is very different from battery power for DACs, and main amps surge more. But there is more to it (the theories) and together with me not liking the result those theories might just as well be true.

Then there is also the given fact that this is a device which fully operates in Class A. You can read the newspaper by the light emitting diodes used (which are used as speciasl diodes) and the thing gets warmer than my Audio Note tuby DAC. And there goes the battery solution.
Of course, on this matter you could use a car battery which will last 24 hours for sure, but it will impact the design of the PSU because all is not exactly running on 12 Volts (and not less but more).

During my measuring experiments (starting this weekend) I will try to find proof of a battery making a difference by measurement. And if any mains is prone to improvement, it is mine.

Peter

Hey ... great !
I just laid my Perreaux buffer aside because the DAC can do it herself. Oh yes, that is a she.

Ok, just now (after 36 tracks) it went wrong. But :

As you (Leo) did, I had ticked the "Copy to XX-drive by standard" checkbox, and at the moment it went wrong a first track from another drive had to be loaded. So, this drive had to spinup (takes near 10 seconds I think) ... Also this was a FLAC, and all together there wasn't time enough to present the track to XXEngine3.

But ticking that parameter is wrong for Attended Playback !

It adds nothing for Attended Playback, and the only thing you can get from it is ... not enough time to load the track.
Note that this is not a problem with Unattended Playback, because then all is converted and loaded in advance, and only at the first track the spinup time of the drive plays a role (underway during "loading" the Playlist other drives may spinup, but the first track is then happily playing ... ok, when "Start Engine3 during conversion is ticked"), but which doesn't harm because Engine3 hasn't been started yet at that moment.

Understand ? (I can hardly make it up myself ).

So *this* is a reason anyway.
I will change the code, so that the "Copy to XX-drive" won't be active at Attended Playback.

I think you misjudge this. It is still working, but you have to use the slider. As before ...
I did this on purpose, but right now I forgot why. Something with remore control (but can't justify that right now ... will grab a beer).

Typo in the program ! could have been the other way around ...


PS: At the 29th track here. Still ok.

Ok, I found something which was a. theoretically wrong and b. changed the other day.
I don't see how it can cause this (but many things are difficult to see), but it is in the area of "No track given" anyway.
Also, this is related to the speed of copying, and as we have found quite some times earlier : anomalies seem to happen often within the first tracks after a reboot.

Anyway, below zip is ready to try again.
I am sorry I can't test this myself, but as you have seen it may take quite some time to happen. Here I'm at a 12th track without problems. ... Says nothing.

Peter


PS:


Would have lost that money.

No, I think I see all I want to see.   Thanks !

But what are your settings Leo ? all of them please ...


and


What do you mean by this (both cases !!) ? it can be important ...
Do you mean the XXEngine3.exe from 0.9w-6 ? do you mean a complete XX 0.9w-6 ? please be as accurate as you can, because usually knowing the differences or equalities brings the solution for a software bug.

Anyway, I myself find it the most strange that day before yesterday I could let each track end up in an error, and now not anymore.

Hi Leo, thanks.

Can you please tell me all the settings you use ?
What file type you play (FLAC etc.) ?
How long the first track is ?
How long the second track is ?
And if this is repeatable for that album ?

Thank you very much,
Peter

Yes, I use those. They should be on any powerchord from high frequency stuff like a DAC. If not, the DAC injects RFI etc. stuff back into the mains. It is for that direction (into the mains), not the other way around.
Unless you have it on the mains already. Then it might help I guess.

Hmm ... I thought of mounting such a core on the pump's cable (which is not a one hour job in this case), but left it alone because there's filters in the pump for this which should work just the same (but don't, so why would such a core help ... was my thinking).
But obviously I could try one piece of equipment, probably the Fireface itself not connected to anything plus the measuring PC ...

Hey, thanks.
Peter

Hi Gerard (A),

Yep, separate earth rod as well. But I don't think this is coming through ground, and that's why this doesn't help. It's just on the phase(s). Besides that, I have no ground connected devices (but the PC, and I had it out of the wall during testing).

I have a mains sine re-gerenator (1800W) and it comes through there too. However, I don't trust this 50Kg beast when it is chargeing the battery.


I don't know why, but I sure believe that. Typicle thing for vinyl addicts to discover btw.


Yea, that was a nice one. A nice guy too. He was finished yesterday. Didn't help. (http://www.phasure.com/index.php?topic=642.msg4849#msg4849)

Thanks,
Peter