Hmm, ok. But I still need a PC to manage the playback or can I just plug the hard drive and listen? Did you compared the soundquality of the spdif out with other devices?

I am looking for something like this:
http://www.pixelmagicsystems.com/products/media_players/hd_mediabox.htm
but don't know if it is the best system available.

this is not what i am looking for. I like somthing that can read files from a harddrive and convert it to spdif, without using a pc or any kind of windows ce in the unit itself.

Another thing. I have looked around and found there are media harddrives on the market, which can give a spdif signal from musicfiles stored on harddrive. This could be a solution for the PC playback problem because you don't need a pc to play the files. Does somebody know a good product? Has anybody made experiences and compared to pc and CDP playback?

Of course I don't want to pay very much money on this extrem expensive stuff from dCS, wavelength etc... I don't know what a usb2-spif converter made by them costs but I guess it costs to much. The point is, that i don't want to tweak around a lot. I've been doing this for a long time and it is very time consuming. I like something that I just can use. Such things needn't to be expensive. There are good things on the market. They cost nearly nothing and are sounding very well. Like my Jungson JA-99C power amp. Costs 400€ and sounds like 4000€.

Thanks for the information. it is a pitty the m2tech is not relay designed to be a highend converter and still need mods. But it seems worth a try if not something better will show up.

Thank you for that information. I just saved 100€ I read in the diyaudio thread. They say it could be connected directly to the usb port. I use 5m usb cable "directly" into my usb-spdif-dac without spdif cable. Whats your experience with digital cable? Is it better to use 5m spdif cable than 5m usb?

Hi Peter and everyoneelse,
I am using a usb-spdif converter to feed my Chord DSC1100 DAC. Before I was using the spdif out of my rme-hammerfall soundcard but the usb device is better. Now I discovered a special driver for usb-asio from aqvox which sounds realy great. But it costs 100€ so i like to know if there is something better bevor i spend the money on that driver.
With xxhighend, some win7 tweaks and cMP I have now a better spdif-signal than with my Pioneer PD-S06 CD-Player. But it is not that much better. I like to know a few things:
Is there a better way to obtain a spdif signal than with usb-spdif converter?
Do you know a usb-spdif converter using asynchronous mode (my usb-spdif device from hoer-wege is just synchronous)?
What else can I do to improve the sound quality from my PC? I read often that PC must be a lot better even than the best transports. The Pioneer is great but not the best, so there must be some space to improve further.
To my setup:
I have a core2dou with asus pq5 pro board, fanless PSU (150€!), Bluerayburner LG, made some tweaks in device manager, shuted down services, in generel i did what they said on cplay/cmp homepage. I get a delay of 120us with my system. it is ok but i have seen some of you have a much better performance.
Thanks for your help! Greetings Adrian

Hi everyone,
i can affirm this finding. I was one year away from audio, sold everything because I was nerved by this neurotic feeling you get if you care too much about sound In this time I listened to my Tivoli Model Three most of the time. CD-Playback was done with PC, using Vista and A WASAPI Player. Speaker and Amp was the Tivoli Radio fed by my RME Soundcard. I bought the LG Blueray writer and just threw in a cd without ripping it. I used direct playback. Better highs was my first impression. I was happy and forgot about it because I didn't cared much in that time. Now I am back and build a nice pair of Speakers (Hobby Hifi Platino Highend Version) using a Jungson JA-99C Poweramp a van Look passive pre, a Chord DSC1100 DAC and a Pioneer PD-S06 CD Transport. My computer is connected via Hoer-Wege USB-SPDIF converter (which is far better than my old rme Hammerfall HDSP 9632 SPDIF-out). Now I testet again, with an old file I ripped with my Plextor DVD Burner and now ripped again with the LG Bluerayburner. It is obvious sounding better. Clearer and cleaner highs, more dynamic sound.
It probably might be not only the LG Burner making the difference. Also I used IDE cable on my Plextor, the LG is connected with SATA. Ripping technique still the same (EAC without any hooks in the CD-Drive reading menue). Now I am using windows 7, which is an improvement in playback compared to vista. If it makes a difference if you rip the CD's in w7 I don't know, but it is possible (nothing is impossible in this hobby ). Even the mediaplayer sounds better than the old WASAPI player I used bevor. For XX I can not tell the difference.
Greetings Adrian

Hi Peter,
I tried it once again with the newest version 0.9v-6a. It is still like that: drag file into the playlist, play the file...everythings ok. close xx and move or delete the file. Start xx again. Then select the file and click play...error accured engine3.exe stops working...try it if yo don't beleave me.
Greetings Adrian

Hi,

Yes it is like this. I tried it once more this time with 0.9v-4. The only thing that still happens is vista telling that engine3 stopped working and asks if this program should be closed. After selecting "close" you can use xx onward.

Greetings Adrian

Hi Peter,
it was that simple thanks. I discovered another bug, wich is no prob for me but I like to help improving so I report. When I load files in the playlist and move the files afterwards into another folder, xx crushes direct at start with  a message that the folder doesn't exist.

Thanks Peter, I disabled UAC and now it works fine. Still one thing. XX doesn't remeber my settings, any idea?
Greetings Adrian

Hi Peter,
I made it and installed Visat Congratulations to you player, the soundquality is realy good and better than iTunes! But I have some problems runnig it. I installed xx on two pc's with vista32 ultimate and on both I can't drag files into the playlist when I start xx as administrator. This doesn't happen when i start it just with "open". The other prob is that on on pc I get an error massege when I start in normal mode saying "Unhandled exception occured in your application...". So I can't use it on this pc at all
Thank you and greetings
Adrian


the complete error:
See the end of this message for details on invoking
just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box.

************** Exception Text **************
System.UnauthorizedAccessException: Access to the path 'C:\Program Files\Filesxx-highend\LibraryData.txt' is denied.
   at System.IO.__Error.WinIOError(Int32 errorCode, String maybeFullPath)
   at System.IO.FileStream.Init(String path, FileMode mode, FileAccess access, Int32 rights, Boolean useRights, FileShare share, Int32 bufferSize, FileOptions options, SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES secAttrs, String msgPath, Boolean bFromProxy)
   at System.IO.FileStream..ctor(String path, FileMode mode, FileAccess access, FileShare share)
   at System.IO.File.Open(String path, FileMode mode)
   at XXHighEnd.XXHighEnd.XXHighEnd_Shown(Object sender, EventArgs e)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Form.OnShown(EventArgs e)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Form.CallShownEvent()
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.InvokeMarshaledCallbackDo(ThreadMethodEntry tme)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.InvokeMarshaledCallbackHelper(Object obj)
   at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.runTryCode(Object userData)
   at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.RuntimeHelpers.ExecuteCodeWithGuaranteedCleanup(TryCode code, CleanupCode backoutCode, Object userData)
   at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.RunInternal(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state)
   at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.InvokeMarshaledCallback(ThreadMethodEntry tme)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.InvokeMarshaledCallbacks()


************** Loaded Assemblies **************
mscorlib
    Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
    Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.312 (rtmLHS.050727-3100)
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.NET/Framework/v2.0.50727/mscorlib.dll
----------------------------------------
XXHighEnd
    Assembly Version: 1.0.3116.37736
    Win32 Version: 1.0.3116.37736
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Program%20Files/Filesxx-highend/XXHighEnd.exe
----------------------------------------
Microsoft.VisualBasic
    Assembly Version: 8.0.0.0
    Win32 Version: 8.0.50727.312 (rtmLHS.050727-3100)
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/Microsoft.VisualBasic/8.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/Microsoft.VisualBasic.dll
----------------------------------------
System.Windows.Forms
    Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
    Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.312 (rtmLHS.050727-3100)
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Windows.Forms/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Windows.Forms.dll
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System
    Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
    Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.312 (rtmLHS.050727-3100)
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.dll
----------------------------------------
System.Drawing
    Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
    Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.312 (rtmLHS.050727-3100)
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Drawing/2.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.Drawing.dll
----------------------------------------
System.Runtime.Remoting
    Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
    Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.312 (rtmLHS.050727-3100)
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Runtime.Remoting/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Runtime.Remoting.dll
----------------------------------------
Microsoft.DirectX.DirectSound
    Assembly Version: 1.0.2902.0
    Win32 Version: 5.04.00.2904
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC/Microsoft.DirectX.DirectSound/1.0.2902.0__31bf3856ad364e35/Microsoft.DirectX.DirectSound.dll
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System.Data
    Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
    Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.312 (rtmLHS.050727-3100)
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_32/System.Data/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Data.dll
----------------------------------------
System.Xml
    Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
    Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.312 (rtmLHS.050727-3100)
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Xml/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Xml.dll
----------------------------------------
LogicNP.FolderView
    Assembly Version: 9.0.0.0
    Win32 Version: 9.0.0.0
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Program%20Files/Filesxx-highend/LogicNP.FolderView.DLL
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System.Management
    Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
    Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.312 (rtmLHS.050727-3100)
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Management/2.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.Management.dll
----------------------------------------
Microsoft.DirectX
    Assembly Version: 1.0.2902.0
    Win32 Version: 5.04.00.2904
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC/Microsoft.DirectX/1.0.2902.0__31bf3856ad364e35/Microsoft.DirectX.dll
----------------------------------------
System.Configuration
    Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
    Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.312 (rtmLHS.050727-3100)
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Configuration/2.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.Configuration.dll
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************** JIT Debugging **************
To enable just-in-time (JIT) debugging, the .config file for this
application or computer (machine.config) must have the
jitDebugging value set in the system.windows.forms section.
The application must also be compiled with debugging
enabled.

For example:

<configuration>
    <system.windows.forms jitDebugging="true" />
</configuration>

When JIT debugging is enabled, any unhandled exception
will be sent to the JIT debugger registered on the computer
rather than be handled by this dialog box.

Hi Peter,
I admit to have thought about reminding you  ...but this was not the matter. I will look sometimes to your site and perhaps you will made it somtime...no prob.

That indeed would be a problem...perhaps I should try Vista sommtime...


There is a critical error when listen to the player version .9pd and .9r. Sometimes when the next track is loaded the system freezes stone cold. Nothing except a hardware reset can awake the pc again. It has nothing to do with the size of the track. It happens even if the next track is just 1 min. There's no hurry to solve this for me...should just be a bug report.

Best wishes and greetings
Adrian




:wip:

Hi Peter,
it's been a while since I was here, so I was curious how you newest version sound....respect...although you didn't developed for XP/2000 the sound improved remarkable on 2000! Much cleaner and more cynamics. The support for mp3 and flac is also a very good desicion...I don't have such files but you never now if one comes along And some music ist just available on mp3 like Dj sets.
I recognized that with E1 I can't play files with length more than 6min. I have 1gig of ram, normaly it should work ..? With E2 there is no poroblem.
Is the support for 24/96khz also planed for XP/2000?
Greetings Adrian