Pete,

Its the latter I think. I hadn't at first done and A-B-A comparison with Foobar, but managed to do it yesterday with the volume set the same on both. I could then tell that XXHighEnd wasn't any quieter, but as you said what I had been doing was turning it up higher as I could bear it higher. The A-B-A confirmed what I had thought, XXHighEnd was better. I will check with the wife soon as I use her as my 'blind' evaluator as she doesn't need to know what programme I am using - must take account of any experimenter bias!

I had previously done my listening during the day, so turning the volume up helped to get the sound above the ambient noise level. Interestingly, last night I had my first chance to listen at night (when I prefer to listen) and found that I could tolerate listening to XXHighEnd at lower levels than Foobar. Basically I could hear most of what I wanted to hear without feeling the need to turn the volume up a notch or two. I remember having a similar experience when I upgraded my standard headphones to Grados.

In terms of the later versions of XXHighEnd not working with my system, have you managed to figure out what the problem might be? From the notes you have provided the later versions don't seem to have improvements that will improve the sound over 0.9-6y - am I right in thinking that?

Thanks,

Matt

Pete,

Should also mention that although 09-y6 plays it has reduced the volume of my system in comparison to Foobar.

Saying that the sound is great! Instantly noticeable improvement on Foobar with WASAPI plug-in, which has got me pretty excited as I have nearly finished building a new DAC and amp so want the best source I can get. Thanks for putting in the hard yards on this.

Matt

Thanks Pete,

FYI, I looked at that other thread and they seemed to be able to use 09-y6, so I thought that I would give it go. On default 09-y6 played but was quite 'broken', skipping around on the tracks. Changing the Q1 to 10 seemed to solve the issue and now it seems to be playing OK.

Cheers

Matt

Sorry Pete, only seemed to manage to attach one of the log files. Here is the other one.

Thanks for the help,

Matt

Peter,

Thanks for the fast reply. Wow. I doubt whether it is a slow machine though. My laptop is a core duo with 3Gbs of RAM, whereas my PC (on which XXHighEnd gives the same message) is a Core i5 750 with 4 Gbs of RAM. The hard drive is SATAII, so again should be pretty quick.

I figure that I must be doing some very basic wrong, but everytime I go to play tunes the following messages pop up: 'No tracks given', 'No track data found'.

I have tried both version 0.9y-8 and 0.9y-7, on Windows 7 pc and Vista laptop. Same messages on both. I also tried different out devices and engines. I have managed to get XXhighend working on the PC OK a little while ago using the same music files suing my external DAC, but due to faulty RAM have reinstalled the whole operating system.

To play songs, I have put 'my music' folder as the 'music root' directory in the settings section. I have used the search function to find the music, clicked on the album and then clicked 'load'. The songs appear on the playlist, but when I press 'play' the progress bar at the bottom starts to move, no sound comes out and then after 10s or so the messages come up.

My file system is organised as 'My music'\type of file (e.g. FLAC, MP3)\artist\album\song title.

Any ideas what might be going wrong?

Help much appreciated,


Matt