Hi Audiodidakt,
 
Thanks so much for your help, I wasn´t looking at the complete list of KS devices and yes there is one with KS prefixed. Now I can play with #4Engine. Too many things to look at with this player...ok, the sound makes it worthwhile.

Just a couple of questions:

- How can I see the buffer size in my device?. My Musiland Monitor USD has a window that says ASIO Buffer with 5, 10, 20, 40, 80 and 160 values. If I make a x 100 of these values I get close to the numbers in the Buffer size of the XXHighEnd; as an example 2000 is close to 2048. Is that correct?.
I´m using Adaptive Mode and Q1:1 and when I change the buffer size I can´t tell differences between 2048 and 1024. What should be the differences between higher or lower values

- I can play the music using a preamp or directly with the XXHigEnd. I read in some place that using the Volume affect the sound, in that case would be better to use a preamp, I guess.

Btw, how do you make the screen shots?

Ok, now I understand, I can use any of the KS modes: Normal, Special or Adaptive, but with all of them my Engine is just #3, nothing about #4Engine. I use lately Adaptive mode.

I see, a KS device, do you mean the USB interface or the DAC itself?

Thanks

Hi, another new one here.

First let me thank you all for your contribution on this forum that helps greatly to deal with XXHighEnd and let me congratulate specially to Peter for the fantastic player. For me, and old music lover, this player is the most important discovery in the last times. Contrary to SimpSimong I used seldom the analogue system and the last years I´ve been heavily in the digital side spending time and money to improve the sound in a way or another with tubes, cables, dacs etc. Now for the first time in the last times I´ve discovered another way to get great sound without spending ridiculous amounts of money. I have the feeling that with the XXHigEnd player we are now working with the future and with first class sound. (Ok, sorry for being a little corny, but I´m quite impressed).

Please let me comment a few things about my experience with the player.

About flac and wave. Last week I bought some 24/96 files from HDTracks (Hiroshima. The Bridge and Rebeca Pidgeon. The Raven). The files came originally as flac and I´ve put it that way in the XXHighEnd disk, I at the same time converted that files with dbpoweramp to wav. I compared the sound of both kind of files and they are very different. I know that the flac is converted to wav by the player but even after that conversion I find the flac more incisive, even harsh, a little forward maybe, on the other hand the wav file is more refined without loosing nothing, more subtle, more ambient. I like more the wav but probably it depends on your system and taste.

Talking about 24bit/96khz files, in my opinion there is no way to compare a 16/44 ripped cd, even if you play it later at 96khz, with the original 24bit/96khz downloaded files. With the original 24bit/96khz files the soundstage is much bigger and the whole sound is easier and fuller. I find this soundstage enormous in the wide and high plane but not in the depth plane which seems a little shorter. Maybe could be my system.

I understand that to get a great sound is a combination of the many parameters the XXHighEnd has. I agree with some other people here, that the parameter with more influence, at least apparently, is the Split file size. I´ve found that in my system 43 is the magic number. Just where the sound starts to be too rich without loosing definition.

Other interesting issue is about InverPh. I don´t see the typical invert phase effect like loosing focus or blurred bass. I´ve found however that the soundstage is bigger with the phase inverted and I don´t feel like loosing any focus. So I keep it on all the time.

Just a final question, could someone tell me how can I get the #4 Engine?. I have two computers, one with Vista and other one with Windows 7. I thought that the engine was system dependent, Vista with #3 and Windows7 with #4 but I have the #3Engine all the time in both systems.

Sorry for such a long post, don´t be afraid the next time I´ll be shorter, being my first post I was eager to share my experiences to learn more about this terrific player.

Thanks in advance and cheers from Madrid.