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Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Can't Minimize 9Z-7 latest release-- Result: No PA in 9Z-709
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on: August 16, 2012, 04:23:17 am
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Had no problem activating the official release version of 9Z-7 (undemo is gone from the core appointment area of settings) but it won't minimize, even after a system restore. Going back to 9Z-709 I can switch back and forth between full and minimize OS, BUT PA will no longer engage in 9z-709! Bummer.... I even did a system restore again and I still can't get PA to engage. Will sleep on it and, hopefully, you'll have an answer for me in the near future.
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Ultimate Audio Playback / Your thoughts about the Sound Quality / Re: Phase Alignment - WOW, WOW, WOW!
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on: August 15, 2012, 09:29:07 pm
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Hey Mani, did you try SFS @ 2 and PA Strength at 1? I did try SFS @ 2 and that did not work. The player complaint with an error telling me that the figure 2 is too small for unattended playback... Bert Maybe you need to set Q1 to fourteen. See below from this note from Peter: http://www.phasure.com/index.php?topic=2093.msg21474#msg21474Addendum : A month or so after this was written originally, it was found that a very low Split File Size (SFS) solves about all of the theoretical problems we can run into. So, an SFS of 2 allows for a Device Buffer Size of 4096, a Q1 of 14 and a Q1Factor of 1, which gives the net result of a fairly short buffer size while Phase Alignment works beautifully; in this setting the repeat of the last buffer (by sort of mechanical organization) is very short but also very long in frequence. For net result it will even be difficult to detect it (think like 50ms worth of audio repeating 10 times now). This is important, because it will allow everybody to use it, while at first it was thought that only the "huge buffer sizes" would allow for it, that sure not being able to dial in for all DACs. And: Addendum : Referring to beforementioned SFS setting of 2 which works "the best", it has been found also that applying a Strength of 1 sure can improve. Again it is difficult, because it first required the general nature of sound (or quality of it) "depicted" by the SFS=2 setting before it started to work out. So, despite the warnings above, an SFS of 2 with further settings as described under the earlier Addendum, seems quite safe in order to try a Strength of 1. Sadly, again later it was found that with this Strength of 1 and an SFS of 60, sound seems to get as analogue as can be, hence totally different and seemlingly way better again. Sadly, because with the further settings the same, you won't be free of small ticks at stopping or Volume Change etc. Still harmless, but not free of anomalies (which SFS = 2 seems to provide).
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Ultimate Audio Playback / Playback Tweaks and Source related subjects / Re: Need guidance to reinstall W7
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on: August 10, 2012, 04:36:58 pm
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1. Will I loose all the music on the spinning disc if I reinstall W7, since it's connected to the same motherboard? If so then I'll have to transfer it to a external HD. 2.Do I have to save xxhe and programs like dB power amp on an external HD as well? 3. Any one with a particular set of steps, that works best to reinstall W7 1. No. When you are reinstalling W7 you'll be asked which drive you want to install it on; select the SSdrive. 2. Saving programs, other than the original installation/setup file, isn't possible; programs like XXHighend and dbpoweramp need to be rinstalled after your new W7 install. If you know where they are, you can save the installation/setup files on the spinning disk before you do the OS reinstall. From your spinning disk you can reinstall them to the SS drive after you reinstall the OS. 3. Any installation/setup files, documents pictures, etc you want to keep that are currently on the SS OS drive should be saved to the spinning disk before you reinstall the OS; afterward you can move them back. Programs cannot be "saved"; rather they have to be reinstalled on the OS drive after installation of the new OS. Hope this helps.
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Ultimate Audio Playback / Phasure NOS1 DAC / Re: New Phasure NOS1 USB DAC owner
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on: July 30, 2012, 03:48:52 am
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When I was running Windows Home premium 32 bit I could never get the volume buttons to work. As soon as I started using my current OS they worked; getting the volume buttons to work was the primary reason for upgrading; man, I got a lot more than operational volume buttons out of my upgrade!
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Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: Problem with 'Minimize OS'
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on: July 26, 2012, 01:27:02 pm
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Though I never do anything (defrag, install, rip or burn cd's for the car, etc.) except play music in minimzed mode, I find that about once every three or four weeks I have this issue and I have to use my "established" restore point. Because I've been reripping all my music, I too go back and forth between minimized and normal mode several times a day. I immediately know when I have a problem because I get windows sounds when minimized stops working, I then do a quik restore and all is well again. Of course my "established restore point " changes after I install anything and I use the procedure you provided for setting a restore point. http://www.phasure.com/index.php?topic=1972.0
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