Have you done any changes in decoding the bass lines from 44/16 material wav.files in this version? Does it go as deep in frequency? Can't quite put my finger on it...

Terje, it's wrong that soundcards can't deliver more than 48Khz on S/PDif. My XFi Elite Pro can deliver 96Khz out (and does) and so does a lot more cards that I know of. Of course, cheap on-board solutions have very weak software solutions often not giving the user the possibility to change the frequency of the bitstream manually and to above 48Khz.

More expensive soundcard solutions have this option.

As an IT Technician, my point of view is that USB should not be used for audio at all...with it's inherent flaws, noise etc. Many implemented USB solutions also have a transmission roof of 48Khz. The speed of USB is not really suited to any more...

If you're wanting to use e.g. 96Khz, use Firewire or S/PDif IMO.

Have testet and tweaked a lot after upgrading to 9U-1. Have for some time used Double and Upsampling as this has earlier given more "air" and a bigger soundstage.

After the U-1 version this seems to be even better! Have also set my soundcard output to 88Khz instead of it switching automatically to 88Khz from 44.1 when XX plays.

I guess as you mentioned in another thread that the 24bit conversion in this mode is also contributing to the good results. This is so much better here now than playing without Double and Upsampling that I'm never going back...

In other words, 9U-1 has "something"...
It's more "coherent", "analog"...

Am I making sense? And is there something to this when you look at your latest programming changes?

Keep up the good work, Peter! Happy now... 

 

Message received and understood!

Results of DAC test with sound cards S/PDif set to 96Khz:

Start Audio Device Analysis Exclusive Mode support
046FFD38

    Supported : 2|16|44100|176400|4
    Supported : 2|24|44100|264600|6
    Supported : 2|32|44100|352800|8
    Supported : 2|16|48000|192000|4
    Supported : 2|24|48000|288000|6
    Supported : 2|32|48000|384000|8
    Supported : 2|16|88200|352800|4
    Supported : 2|24|88200|529200|6
    Supported : 2|32|88200|705600|8
    Supported : 2|16|96000|384000|4
    Supported : 2|24|96000|576000|6
    Supported : 2|32|96000|768000|8
Not supported : 2|16|176400|705600|4
Not supported : 2|24|176400|1058400|6
Not supported : 2|32|176400|1411200|8
Not supported : 2|16|192000|768000|4
Not supported : 2|24|192000|1152000|6
Not supported : 2|32|192000|1536000|8

Error message:

Also tried Linns free test files (24/48), among them some WMAs. Converted these to standard WAV by NCH Switch program and the finished WAV plays fine in MP11. Playing them in XX gives only a loud hiss. When XX comes to the end of the files it crashes in Vista giving out a standard Vista Application crash message, listing versions of .dlls etc.

http://www.linnrecords.com/linn-downloads-testfiles.aspx

When trying to use the latest version of XX to play a 24/96 WAV file from 2l.no, see link for download below, XX crops up an error window with "Wrong stream status(1)""OK".

My external Lexicon DAC supports up to 24/96 digital S/PDif in from other programs/sources without problems. I usually play 16/44 in Double and Upsample on (88Khz) without problems from XX.

http://www.2l.no/hires/index.html

Download yourself and try. The 310MB file.

Another thing, why do you restrict selection of 24 or 32bits to 32 when choosing f.ex. 24/96 or 24/192 as DAC supports? Most DACs support 24bit, not 32.

Btw, PC->XFi Elite Pro->S/PDif->Lexicon MC-12B. Newest version drivers and software. Vista Ultimate.

Maybe this is the same problem datawolf is having in the other thread? He used flac as I recall, I used EAC-.wav's.

Have not changed any priorities at all beyond using prosessor scheme #3.

T7 sounds "strung on a line between the speakers" while T5 "flows", have very good depth, better bass and sounds more analog.

Using Attended(Normal) playback with the program up on the screen at all times. Can't hear much difference between Un-attended or Attended, actually. If there's a difference, its minute.

No, this was after playing for an hour of different music. Had recently cleared the playlist, added one whole album and the player was finished with track 1.

Same album has been played before without problems so it's not the source material. Pure .wav's through EAC.

Have compared T5 to T7 tonight. Sorry to report that depth recital, bass lines etc. is not as good on the T7 version as the T5. T5 flows better, seems more involving.

Read that explorer utils has been added on the T7. Any corrections elsewhere in the code handling the playback which can have changed SQ?

Using the same settings, see signatur.

These errors came up after playing 1 song of 11 unattended, when the player tried to switch to the next song.

Hey Peter: 14 days since your last release! What gives? 
Nah, just pulling your leg...looking forward to the next release though due to many small bugs with the 9t-5. Sound quality is superb though. Has reverted to Q=14, Q doesn't seem so important anymore in this version? Hmm... F.ex. the program crashes and starts another XX sometimes when I'm playing attended and is into the Library Button on the far left, adding tracks to the ongoing playlist etc. etc. Settings below. Clean Vista and XX install, nothing else.

Happy New Year btw.!