Thanks Calibrator

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Bring up the Juli@ control panel from the system tray. If you are seeing VU meter activity on analogue output you should be right to go after you connect to the RCA output sockets.

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The whales be singing. 

But why do I want to do this?  I am under the belief that using the Juli@ to feed an external DAC is sonically superior than having the Juli@ do the D/A inside the computer.  And with all the Juli@ capabilities like Direct Wire that I don't understand won't I ever get digital out of the Juli@ with Engine4 like I can with Engine3?

I've had enough trials and tribulations for the day.  I believe I am able to get 0.9-y501 with Engine4 to play under Vista with my Juli@ card.  It runs with no errors and no sound but I believe that's because I have not connected my interconnects to the analog outputs on the card.  I assume that the device KS: Juli@ Audio >> # esi_wave1 is for the analog outputs.  If not someone please tell me what this device refers to.

Engine3 in 0.9-y501 under Vista with my Juli@ works fine and I have sound through my usual Juli@ digital outputs.

Version 0.9-y501 also provided the perfect visual interface on my XP computer with a Lynx AES16 (identical to that on Vista), but that setup does not work and I am getting a runtime error for the XXEngine3.exe file even though I have selected Engine4.

With the earlier versions of XXHE, 09-y4 and before, I get music but the visual interface is messed up with no way to adjust the overlapping windows to reveal the hidden options.  If 0.9-y502 includes Engines 1 and 2 then perhaps I will at least have the lesser sound one can expect with these engines with a perfect visual interface.  Of course what I really want is for Engine4 to work on my XP setup.

This is as clear as mud: 

"Vista Users ... prepare yourselves ..."

"Windows7 ? hmm ... maybe not !"

"XP Users, prepare yourselves !"

Where do we stand on the version of Windows that provides the best sonics with XXHighEnd?  Is it too early to tell or should we just jump on the Win7 bandwagon since it represents the latest and future releases of Windows?

We XP users are prepared.  Are you or should we hold out longer?

I am haunted by your statements: 

But I never enjoyed music as much as last night!

But it has emotion all over!

I have two different interface cards (a Lynx AES16 and Juli@) to feed my external DACs.  Will these work with what you are planning and my external DACs or do I need to look into using different hardware?

No, I haven't pulled the trigger on Win7 yet.  I was planning to upgrade one of my dedicated XP music servers running cMP/cPlay to Win7 so I could also install XXHighEnd and compare on identical hardware and OS.  But when I saw Peter's posts regarding his current efforts and impressions on the next release of XXHighEnd and XP versus the current version and Win7 I figured it best to wait for more definitive results.

I am currently running XXHighEnd 09-y4 under Vista 64 Home Premium and it sounds very musical.  Unfortunately my Vista computer is not a dedicated music server and is just an inexpensive Dell computer preloaded with Vista that serves many other functions.  I would probably agree with you that the user interface of Win7 is superior to either XP or Vista but I believe that should only matter if you have a non-dedicated music computer.  My experience with cMP/cPlay leads me to want to shutdown and streamline the Windows bloat and unnecessary services that affect or may affect the SQ.

Perhaps you and I may be disappointed six months from now if the latest versions of XXHE still sound superior under Vista.  I'm not looking forward to buying a standalone copy of Vista to install on a dedicated music server but I will if the consensus still indicates a Vista preference.  I realize that Peter and all of us are somewhat pawns to the whatever Microsoft provides .

Actually the work Peter is doing with XP sounds much more promising.  Many audiophiles have found XP to provide better SQ than either Vista or Win7.  It's just that to date XXHighEnd has been optimized for Vista but hopefully soon Peter will work in his magic for XXHighEnd and XP.

As for Win7 it may be too early to expect miracles.  Many of us expect changes from Microsoft and won't consider Win7 until R1.  I also expect driver support to lag, not that the hardware is not supported but that there is probably only a single choice for each hardware.  In contrast my Lynx AES16 card has several different drivers from which to choose for XP and btw, the latest does not provide the best SQ.