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Ultimate Audio Playback / Phasure NOS1 DAC / Re: XXHighEnd / Phasure NOS1 Review 6moons
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on: December 31, 2012, 09:17:40 pm
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Congratulations Peter and Family!!!! A very nice way to begin the new year.
My review of the review: My favorite part was the "downside:" cd's rendered unlistenable. I do wish though they had more thoroughly discussed the sonic attributes of the NOS1, and what their impressions were of the best digital sound ever compared to a high end analogue set up. Guess we'll have to wait for that review. Last April I joined The Philadelphia Area Audio Group and have had the pleasure of hearing some of the best turn tables/amps/speakers made (If one was to judge by price alone.) Let me just say that I always felt they needed to hear an NOS1 in their respective systems!
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Ultimate Audio Playback / Chatter and forum related stuff / Re: "Everyfan Must Go"
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on: December 31, 2012, 06:13:41 pm
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Hey Paul, based on Juan and Nick's experience I went with a Corsair AX 650 Professional Series. I've been very pleased with it, especially the SATA 6gb connectors that came with it. It has a fan that only runs above a certain temp. I don't believe that I've ever had the fan turn on. When I put my computer together the 650 was the smallest PS offered in the AX series. I think that has changed. Lastly, with my MB, using Peter's Xtweek settings my water cooled cpu temps have fallen from around 39 degrees to 33. At some point I want to try a seasonic fanless PS as a secondary supply for a backup HD.
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Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: 9Z-8a and SFS
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on: December 30, 2012, 10:02:48 pm
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On the off chance you might be reading this ( ) the ticks are 85 percent better on the Allison Krause track, SFS of 2, with the lateset Engine3 exe. Need to listen again, make changes and restart the track, etc, to really see what happens.
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Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: 9Z-8a and SFS
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on: December 30, 2012, 03:20:55 pm
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Peter, the ticks are among the strangest thing I've experienced with XXHighend. The Allison Kraus was ripped with EAC. That track is one of my reference tracks and until Z8 I never heard the ticks. It's very strange how they seem to become more "intense" with the loud sustained notes. Glad to hear I'm not the only one hearing that! Waiting for your "fix", I've been listening with a SFS of 12 or 14. To these ears, the SQ improvement with Z8 is as "large" as the introduction of PA. Best Xmas present I've gotten in years.
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Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: 9Z-8a and SFS
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on: December 28, 2012, 01:26:16 am
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Peter, great story. I've been walking around the last few days just shaking my head wondering how such different results could be the case. Not that there aren't individual preferences but the difference is too "objectively hearable." I think being in denial at times is necessary to work through things. Thanks to your bullheadedness we only get to listen to some of the best sounding music reproduction on the planet.
Now, about those ticks. They are certainly strange. I found three tracks where they behave very differently. On one they are constant; on another they only happpen with loud sustained vocal notes, they go away in the track when the vocals and music are softer; and the last has no ticks whatsoever. All have different header formats. Two were ripped by EAC and one with dbpoweramp. I sent you and email about them.
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Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: 9Z-8a and SFS
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on: December 26, 2012, 05:59:02 pm
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Weird, went outside and brought some wood for the stove down to the backporch for the week. The ticks with a SFS of 2 have returned.......When i went outside I left the system on but not playing.
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