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Ultimate Audio Playback / Playback Tweaks and Source related subjects / Re: PC electrical isolation from DAC
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on: June 28, 2012, 03:59:53 pm
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Hi Peter, No problem at all. There is always something to discover each and every day and I am happy about this. Life would be boring if we knew everything I have flashed the BIOS to the latest and the BSODs have stopped. There was also an update for USB3 (I guess this is in case I add a USB3 controler card ?). But the behavior is still there, no matter what I do. Will I accelerate the build of a new PC - not sure for the moment, it depends if that behaviour changes, or at least the driver puts itself in another core or hyperthread than XXHE engine ? Anyway, now I will write to Adnaco and check with them if there is something to do - maybe like having a second CPU Life is wonderful don't you think ? Alain
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Ultimate Audio Playback / Playback Tweaks and Source related subjects / Re: PC electrical isolation from DAC
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on: June 28, 2012, 02:27:30 pm
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Hi Peter, I have always been a stubborn kind of guy and I guess you were able to see this. I (too often) tend to obliterate a certain degree of caution and "try" new things... When it turns out fine as you mention, I can feel so enthusiastic I will try to update the Bios (if possible) just to see, but I doubt it will change a thing about the "pumping" of the CPU core. I would have liked to ask the driver to switch to the first core instead of the "music" one from my chosen scheme (in my case, it is Scheme 2), but I guess that this is not possible with a driver... More than this, this driver is in the link... Unless I am wrong, I think that the Audiophilleo 2 is async USB ? Regards, Alain P.S.: When I look at all I have bought for the last 2 years regarding audio, I hate myself for not putting money aside for the NOS1. It's as simple as that...
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Ultimate Audio Playback / Playback Tweaks and Source related subjects / Re: PC electrical isolation from DAC
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on: June 28, 2012, 01:50:16 pm
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Hi Nick, Thanks for the info. I will check with the Bios update, just to see if I can squeeze out something. I do update the BIOS from time to time when a PC gets older, but I had this one only 3 months ago. In fact, I would have liked to have a more powerful PC for my music (and I eventually will), but well, this one arrived "by accident" and I finally took it to replace my aging laptop... When we see the video of the S3B on YouTube, the model shown has 3 outputs on the receiver side and it seems to be USB2 instead of USB3 (is it what you mean ?). And... Like a man that doen't ask for directions I did not check for the necessity to have a driver for this, but finally checked further and executed the installation program... I must admit that I was already happy with the results I get from my sound system, but this hobby... Well, I know you know I will investigate as far as I can and will report back Regards, Alain
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Ultimate Audio Playback / Playback Tweaks and Source related subjects / Re: PC electrical isolation from DAC
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on: June 28, 2012, 01:33:58 pm
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Hi Peter, What email are you talking about What day is it ? What planet ? At least I did not acquire it for the reasons that I mentionned (I hope you will believe me)... Yes I thought that the driver was doing something and true, it differs depending on what resolution. Strangely enough, from .5ms to 10ms, the spikes keep growing from one resolution to the nextr (the picture was taken at 10ms for the sake of the example), then at 15ms it goes down (looks as if it was at .5ms)... I will show more of this with my next post. I also played with Q1 but I was less sure about the differences. Anyway, I will show more pics about the CPU with different adjustements. I will also check about the Bios updates. I would be surprised that it changes something, because the PC is quite recent, but who knows... I will also write to Support at Adnaco, just to see what they have to say about this... Will come back as soon as possible. If in the meantime, someone has questions, suggestions, or music to make me feel better about this last expense... Thanks Alain
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Ultimate Audio Playback / Playback Tweaks and Source related subjects / Re: PC electrical isolation from DAC
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on: June 28, 2012, 04:36:06 am
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Has someone noted if it was more difficult to get a silent CPU core for music with the Adnaco S3B ?
Since I added the S3B, I can't get any core to be quiet, whichever core scheme I choose. I have 2 different pictures of my 2 cores, one without the S3B (with a quiet core), one with (no quiet core).
I also have encountered BSODs with this, whatever speed I select (there are dipswitches) between 5 GT/s and 2.5GT/s (Giga-Transfers per second).
I have a few pics included to show these results...
By the way, I only have a 2.6GHZ Intel CPU with 2 cores, 8GB of DDR 3 10600 RAM, in a Lenovo ThinkCentre Edge 71, very ordinary and cheap mobo (soundcard and video card all integrated), SPSU 180 watts, Noctua CPU fan at 800 rpm with a SOTM fan filter... (see sig).
Not sure what to make of this, but with the BSODs that I have encountered, plus the "pulse" that you can see (whatever scheme I try), I am not sure that this is a good addition ?
Alain
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Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: 9z-6-1c: Wrong pitch with 48khz at x4
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on: May 13, 2012, 03:38:46 pm
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Hi Peter,
It took me a while (...) to do the test with my ASUS computer, but I did it this morning and... Yes, the pitch has the same symptoms as with the 2 other PCs (HP laptop and Lenovo desktop).
Since I did not experiment this problem with my ASUS soundcard, my guess would be that with a 24 bit DAC (or with the Audiophilleo), there could be something wrong happening.
If you need more precision, please feel free to ask ?
Regards,
Alain
PS: I changed the title, since I changed the XXHE version when it came available...
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Ultimate Audio Playback / Your thoughts about the Sound Quality / Re: Minimize OS
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on: March 22, 2012, 07:40:19 pm
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Hi Peter, To quote an expression, "You bet" I have created a restore point before anything else... And it has served already As for other PCs (all purpose), I normally shut off this feature. I have always used my PC without protection (no antivirus, no anti-spam, no nothing) to allow the PC to function as fast as possible. And restoring function was one that I used to deactivate, before this incident happened. It is the first time that I understand I would better leave this in function I am very happy to have it suggested and though it took (from an Acronis backup) 15 minutes to reinstall the OS, it is even a lot faster to revert to a restore point I must admit though that if I install an OS for someone else, I don't deactivate those things. I do this only on my machines, because I feel that my choices do not have to be imposed to anyone else. I feel I can do these things only because I have other protections (have 2 backups on different disks, one located at a different place). As I took care of some redundancy, I feel assured, but I certainly would not recommend something like this. I have seen so many folks who left all on their PC (pictures, documents, etc...) being almost depressed after a disk crash... It happened to me, but since I work for consultants (and learned about backups), I have disciplined myself in having more backups than less... Regards, Alain
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