Okay, I just saw in taskmanager that 24 processes and 24 services cannot be stopped somehow. Does this mean I can only use attended playback ony my laptop? 

Hi Peter,

Just put up my signature!

When I try to get to my taskmanager when the unattended process is going, it gives me an error message. My OS is not responding and it says I need to press ESC or reboot. I''ve waited lik 7-8 minutes and it starts shutting down my virusscanner, Wifi, then the desktop gets empty and I wait and wait and wait but nothing happens.

When I go for unattended playback I get the message that it's stopping my services and that "when done this message dissapears". Problem is it does not dissapear and Alt-x won't bring my xxhighend back so I have to hit the power switch to reboot.

My Autohotkeys DO work when I use them at attended.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks

The speaker surely is not the most important at first, but in the end it can become the most important.

I've been through this journey so I know. I had some cheap speakers in the beginning, with some cheap amps and cables and it didn't sound very good obviously. Then I bought some 2nd hand high-end pre and power amps and some better cables and guess what happened? There was a lot of the high-end sound coming from my speakers, which by then, I had only heard at dealers... My speaker sounded like a much more expensive speaker suddenly. But I don't want to give the wrong impression. Say my 1500 euro per pair speaker suddenly sounded like 6000 per pair speaker after I upgraded my amps but definitely not like a 20k speaker. Anyone who tells you that is mad hahah. Later I upgraded my source which was certainly a change for the better, but it wasn't as huge of a difference that the amps (and the cables) made.

Anyways given your amps, source, cables, audiorack and acoustics are of a high level (and create a good synergy all together) then the speaker becomes the most important factor as only a high quality speaker will let you hear the full potential and capabilities of all of your equipment AND the set as a whole. Will a lesser speaker sound bad? No, when everything before the speaker is of high quality and matched carefully it will not sound bad, it might sound very good. But imagine a prime Michael Jordan in the body of a 60 year old guy.. You get the point..

First off, let me say that the Hiface (modded by Jkeny) offers very good SQ and a quick soulution for it's price. I can't say what it sounds like exactly because I just got my Devialet which is still burning in so I'll wait before I jump to some (wrong) conclusions.

I think that ideally though in computer audio that you will not need an extra interconnect and a box between the computer and your DAC.

I just happened to have visit Peter yesterday. We traded some opinions, ideas and our view on the audio subject. Ofcourse I listened to the Phasure NOS1 DAC too . The sound was very good. Very precise, clean and a lot of information. I can't say wether it's the best DAC ever, as I haven't listened to all the reference DAC's out there. But for the price he's asking for it, it's a steal. The price/ preformance ratio is unbeatable and he could ask a lot more for it, but he explained to me (very clearly) why he doesn't.

Was it the best system I've ever heard then? No... Not by a long shot.. It didn't have the same magic as some 100k systems I've experienced, but I suspect this because Peter doesn't believe in high-end cables, acoustics, amplifiers, speakers and the synergy of the whole as much as I do.

On the other hand I must say I was impressed by the SQ, because  of the cheap cables and amps Peter was using. And the acoustics were far from optimal . So I DID learn that the source (or front end) has more effect on the whole outcome than I first thought. But to create musical magic, I still believe that the front to the back needs to be carefully matched and fine tuned to create a synergistic complete package. And I believe acoustics play a big part in what you're hearing. But making a room 'dead' like many professional acoustic engineers do is not the way for High End audio imo, you need to make the room work WITH you.

OK, it works now. I just need to play around with it some more.

I do hear a pop or a click when sometimes though. When I turn of the Wifi, it still happens, but not as often.

Ok, so I've downloaded Keith Jarret - The Koln concert in high-res (FLAC). When I hit play it says "Illegal sample rate or bitdepth conversion implied". What should I do?

This was mp3. I just started experimenting with computer playback so I'll put on some WAV's now to see what happens.

Thanks so far. How much will the activation cost me? Also I'm on a laptop right now, which I use for work.. So it's far from ideal.. When I activate xxhighend do I need to activate it again (pay again) when I get my desktop strictly for playback?

Thanks.

ps. Peter I sent you a message :

Hey I got sound!!!! Wohoooo!!!

oh noo! On top of all this I get an error that crashes the program when I hit "clicking this button will jump to the first track of the next album in the playlist area".

It gets me: het opgegeven argyment ligt buiten bereik van geldige waarden. Parameternaam: rowIndex. (sorry I have a dutch version)

What to do??

Sorry I meant, 0.9z-3 since the beginning! I was looking at the installation guide... lol

OK, somehow when I click "clicking this button will jump to the first track of the next album in the playlist area" and then press play twice the trakc plays.

But now I've got no sound!? I've set the output device to be my laptop speakers, just for testing purposes.

When I installed the older version 0.9v-1, I at least got sound! Help!

Thanks so far.

Hey everyone,

I'm new to this so I might be making some basic (read: stupid) mistake.

First problem (?) is;

As I unzip 0.9x-7, my McAfee virus scanner automatically deletes a trojan. I don't know if this affects xxhighend.

Anyways I followed the installation guide and everything seems okay so far. I've selected an mp3 but the play button doesn't seem to work!?

Can anybody help me out?

Thanks.