Very strange. Even ArcPred works now. It alwas had a better focus on the instrument but added a strangeness to the sound. Now it is just incredible how much realness it provides. I cleaned my system with tuneup and using a function of tuneup that is called turbo mode. This defenitly improves the sound. I would try vista but the cd I have doesn't install. Don't know why. But sound is great even with w7.

Ok, alway thought it would be a xx-only unit, very nice. so... I would like to order now but......But you need aims in life

Will there be a windows driver that allows to use the phasure dac also with, for example, powerdvd or games?

Hey, you made it Peter! Congratulations! I am a little excited too, even if I can not order at the moment. I will have to wait until my bank account gets better (maybe in a year or so). I wish you a lot of raving and many orders!
Goodluck!

Yes


Aha!
Thx for the quick answeres.

Just want to update this thread. I am ill (damn weather) and have time to play with my hifi-system. I planed to buy the legato but it was not available for al long time, things changed and I canceled the order. One interesting thing is, that upsampling was never really working for me and I had the best sound with 44.1/16bit. 88.2/32 sounded refined but also laked dynamic. It was one step forward and two back. One day I tryed the 24bit setting and felt it has the analog sound like 32bit but is as dynamic as 16bit. That was a nice improvement and I listened to 44.1/24bit. In the last weeks I tweaked the bnc input of my dac. I now use a " bnc feed through jack". I connect a bnc cable from the outside of the dac and instead of soldering twisted pair at the inside of the dac I can now connect BNC also from the inside! So I can go 75Ohm straight to the board. This was a quite hearable improvement. I tell this because I think it explains why today, as I am experimenting with xx, doubling has become an option for me again. Before this tweak I lost dynamic and gained a refined sound. I didn't liked this. Now it sounds refined but without losing dynamic. (Maybe the upsampled signal is more sensitiv to the transmmision over spdif?)  But if I get best sound with 88.2/24bit why buy a 44.2/16 bit only device? Doesn't make sense anymore and that is why I will try the audiophilleo2 instead. Should be able to improve over my standard hiface.
One thing lasts. 24bit ist still better than 32bit. If someone like to try this out and tell me what he hears, it would be interesting.
Greetings Adrian

thx

http://www.klippel-listeningtest.de/

Have fun (and maybe post your results )

I have an eye on this one:
http://www.hs-devices.com/english/PDFs/Datenblatt%202510c.pdf
It has even much lower distortion than the BMS 4590!
my2c
greetings Adrian

There are different opinions if AES/EBU is better than a coaxial cable (spdif) at all and some technical experts I trust say coax is better. I say why using twisted pair if you can use a coaxial cable, which should be better for nf signals because of impedance matching, shielding and maybe more things. So, best "sound" comes from coax with bnc connectors. That's my opinion.

I just want to tell this somebody who would not call me crazy... I listened to music and all the time I thought, somehow it just does not sound good today. So I played with xx-parameters...,nothing that sounded good. I looked to my hifi-system and recognized that there were two mobile chargers plugged in the wall outlet beside my amp and my dac...pulled them out and sound was fine again.....crazy 

I can affirm this. I used a RME HDSP9632 as spdif source some years ago. Sounded like cr*p. A decent CDP was faaaar better but now with highface and the new version of xxHE PC has become better. Don't know where this will go with the Legato but I expect a significant step up (still waiting for it to come).

My "final" setting is sfs.ini=01. 11 and 21 is to sharp and focused on the highs. sfs=150. I went up from Buffer32 q1=6 to Buffer=512 q1=1 to bring the highs down which were just to focused. I meanwhile tried adaptive but it doesn't bring that power in the bass and the defined highs of special. I now prefer scheme 1 too.

Thank you very much for checking this! I will try a second Windows install soon.

@CoenP: It is the first time I played with these settings. I can hear what you describe. 10 I would describe as  softer. 21 I would prefer a bit because it has more dynamics in the mids.

But the neighbours have craftmen in the house and they are drilling all the time , hence listening is a bit difficult at the moment