The right is that when i check upsample & double i get no sound and xxengine stop working.
The some with the new 96.dat.

The above posts are wrong because i had the older xxengine in the folder.

Ps If i check only double it says that the dac doesnt accept the data sequence (2|32|88200)

Peter you are right. I forgot to mention something that i did while trying to fix my problem.

I have already told you that with the latest version as it is, when i hit the play button (dac is 96/16 double & upsampling)
i get xxengine.exe stop working and no sound at all.

So i tried with an older file of xxengine.exe (version 09s0). This was the engine i used with my old soundcard and upsampling was ok.
With this version if i tick upsampling and double  and press play my dac locks at 44.1 which is propably normal because this old file dont have the code to cooperate with the latest version. here is the strange thing. if i tick AA also then i get 88.2 and the distorted output.
It was an expirement for me to try to solve the problem without bothering you. sorry that i forgot to mention that. I didn't remember it after so many changes i had made to make it play.


At foobar with 88.2 and 24 bit if i try to change the volume nothing happens. So it is exlusive mode. I dont know if the output is 24 bit or 16 and i cant think something to verify that.

I replaced the 96.dat file and the results of dac test are the same.

Start Audio Device Analysis Exclusive Mode support
04E1FD0C

    Supported : 2|16|44100|176400|4
Not supported : 2|24|44100|264600|6
Not supported : 2|32|44100|352800|8
    Supported : 2|16|48000|192000|4
Not supported : 2|24|48000|288000|6
Not supported : 2|32|48000|384000|8
    Supported : 2|16|88200|352800|4
Not supported : 2|24|88200|529200|6
Not supported : 2|32|88200|705600|8
    Supported : 2|16|96000|384000|4
Not supported : 2|24|96000|576000|6
Not supported : 2|32|96000|768000|8
    Supported : 2|16|176400|705600|4
Not supported : 2|24|176400|1058400|6
Not supported : 2|32|176400|1411200|8
    Supported : 2|16|192000|768000|4
Not supported : 2|24|192000|1152000|6
Not supported : 2|32|192000|1536000|8
Not supported : 2|16|352800|1411200|4
Not supported : 2|24|352800|2116800|6
Not supported : 2|32|352800|2822400|8
Not supported : 2|16|384000|1536000|4
Not supported : 2|24|384000|2304000|6
Not supported : 2|32|384000|3072000|8

if i set dac is 96/24 (double & upsampling checked) and press the play button XXEngine3.exe hangs.

My card in theory supports 24 bit. I can confirm that by using the test tones of the windows driver. it plays 44.1/48/96 at both 16 and 24 bit with directsound. i'm not sure if the /24 bit modes are supported with exclusive mode. XXHE says no.At the begining  i used foobar, to confirm that it plays, it works but now i'm not so sure if this is exclusive mode. On the other hand if i measure pci latency with dpc, while playing foobar at 48 or 88 either at 16 or 24 bit, i get very low values which shows (almost the some in both circumstancies) that it is exclusive mode.
with direct sound output plugin i get almost 3x latencies.

Ok finally after some testing i find out that my sound device supports only 16 bit in xx. The dac test says that in exlusive mode i can use only 16bit (in foobar i can play 24 bit. strange.). So when i try to upsample the xx output is 24 bit and i hear this distortion.
If i set the dac is 96/24 i get a message at playback that xxengine is stop working so i can only set 96/16. So at this mode the upsampling shouldn't be allowed, or you must fix it to play at 16 bit.
I also notice that if i set my dac is to 96/24 or 32, i cant select the 24 bit (untested) box.

hmmm...
when i set foobar resampler to 48khz i get 48 at the dac and sound its ok. if i change to 88/32 i get an error of unsupported format.
at 88/24 no problem at all.

At xx when i set dac is 96khz 24 bit, i got an error message that the dac supports only 88200 / 32.
when i set dac is 96 /32 and i press play it says that the device does not support exlusive mode.
I think that this is the "problem". For me, i guess the only solution is to resample without changing the bit depth at xx. Is that possible??

Ps: i run the dac test and it supports only 2|88200|16 ,no 24 no 32

thanks for your time Peter.

I had almost  (double and triple) check everything from the above. I'm a computer expert and i tried almost everything before i post.
If it is working for you then it must be something with soundmax driver. I know that soundmax resamples 44.1 to 48 when transmitting to spdif and for that reason i want to sent 88khz by software, to play untouched after resample. I would give it a try with another soundcard and i'll tell you if it works for me.

With soundmax i tried 88.2/16 bit and i set the dac option to 96/16 at xx. So this is something that i must check. Thanks for the info.

Anyway the difference is huge between xx and foobar. i love xx for the sound and the only reason to use foobar is just for testing .

I think i understand why you asking that.

I'm sure that os doesn't resamples because in audio advanced properties (drivers settings) if i set for example 96khz i still get 88khz at spdif when i press the play button.
If the driver do something to xxhe output then i should have seen 96khz.
I 've done the same test with foobar. Wasapi output, secret rabbit resampler at 88.2 and i set the audio properties at 96khz. When i press the play button i get 88khz at the dac but the sound is normal. I tried with different drivers but i got the same. So i believe it is something wrong with xx upsampling.

Hi Peter and all

I have a strange problem. When i tick double and upsampling my extrernal processor locks at 88.2khz but the sound is distorted.
I thought that it was a driver problem, until i used foobar with wasapi plugin and it works as it should. Any ideas???
i'm using the latest version of XXHE

It's working very well, no problems so far. I get less latency (measured with DPC) and better sound with vista64.
Well done

from the task manager. I change the affinity of the process from there, to use only cpu 1 and not cpu 0 (dual core system)
after further listening i like the sound very much. I'm trying to set Q1 slider to a position that make highs a little softer, because imo after some time they become some kind of fuzzy (something like jitter effect).

I love the speed and the micro details...

Greetings

Hi Peter

Fantastic sound so far, better than before, for sure. I'm using the default settings.
I had some problems with little cracks-pops, but i' ve changed the process affinity manually and they disappear.

I think this release is a huge step ahead.

it works, but not exactly in exclusive mode, cause you can change the volume from the tray slider.
Sb live resamples internaly form 44.1 khz to 48 khz and this affects the output quality.

I can't find this . It doesn't appear if i right click on the exe, in the internal tabs.

When the proccess of xxhighend starts, in the task manager i can't see the *32 after the name of the proccess. All the other programs like foobar for example, the proccess is like this foobar.exe*32. So i think that vista is trying to run xxhighend as 64 bit application and for this reason it crashes. Also i can see, an other proccess show up when i start the program, dr20.exe (framework error reporter i think. take a look at this. it may be related to the problem: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=133881&SiteID=1) and when i close the warning message it closes.
After some search,i find out that one differnce between x86 with x64 is that x64 doesn't support unsigned drivers. I dont know if you use one for your program.
I hope this info is useful to find out what is happening. I use vista x64 ultimate.