Thanks Brian, these cables at least have a reasonable price. Do you know someone who has used these cables?

It looks that the USB cable issue is still open...

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Juan

Ok: http://www.phasure.com/index.php?topic=2706.msg27988;topicseen#msg27988

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Juan

Thanks Alain.

Peter, that´s Ok, for my part the topic is closed, I do not experience random stops. The only other thing that happens to me, and very rarely, are stops in the middle of the music and it recovers with Alt + X or mouse movement, if you want treat it in another topic or here, what you think is best.

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Juan

Alain, I´m talking about the tick that´s at the beginning of a song, and yes it is there forever, I don´t know why I thought that with W8 it should have gone. Anyway, with your settings in the NOS1 driver (12ms/8ms) the tick is unnoticeable. The other tick I have is much loud and it happens when I restart the computer if I don´t wait for a while, 30 seconds or even more, after closing XXHE.

Juan

Alain, I haven´t tried it in Normal mode, I´ll do it to see what happens.

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Juan

Now I remember a few stops but every once in a while, typing Alt + X made ​​the music come again.

Juan

Hi Alain your solution works (almost totally). If I reduce the USB buffer size in the NOS1 driver from 16ms to 12ms the ticks barely audible and that´s being very near to the speaker and at 8ms I have to put my ear almost touching the speaker to ear an almost imperceptible tick every time a song starts. Now the ticks don´t bother me at all, so thank you! The problem, if it means that there is a problem, is that the ticks are still there.

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Juan

Here I have also some ticks (not skips) with W8 but I had it with or without Imdisk, so I don´t think that the problem is Imdisk. One loud tick happens when restarting the computer at the moment it is turned off, that happens if I don´t wait for around 30 seconds after closing XXHE. Now I´m testing a linear power supply for the external hard drive (with data) and the ticks are much lower and very often there is none. Could those ticks have to do with the wall wart power supplies?

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Juan

Ok, thanks Mani

Juan

Hi Mani, with balance connections you don´t have that noise but any difference in SQ with the Ridge Street Enopias USB cable versus the stock cable using in both cases xlr connections?

Juan

Hi Anthony, would you please let me know how to add the batch file and the XXHE shortcut to the W8 startup?. I knew how to do it in W7 and how to delete files from W8 start up but I can´t find the way to add these files.

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Juan

PS. Please put your signature whenever is possible, thanks

Hi Mani, this issue of the influence of the usb cable looks interesting. If the NOS1 don´t use the power part of the usb cable I don´t know how the cable can influence the sound (old discussion here in the forum). Anyway could you provide some details of the type or brand of the cable you use?

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Juan

If the amount of memory is the main problem (perhaps not the only one), why not try the Ramdisk if only to see if there is a perceived improvement in SQ? Even if the amount of memory already installed is limited I think it´s worthwhile to test it.
If there is a better SQ then buy more memory to get at least 24Gb or even change the mother board if with the one you have it is not possible. I mean, just if the SQ perceived is noticeable better and you´d like to maintain this SQ. That´s around 300€ in the worst of case, buying an Asrock X79 EXTREME4-M (the one in the XXHE PC) and 16Gb of Ram, thinking that you already have at least 8Gb of Ram. I´m not saying to do it right now, I´m sure that this Ramdisk issue needs more experimentation but if after that the better SQ is consolidated, then to think in buying more memory wouldn´t be a bad idea. JMHO.

Juan

Thanks Alain. As I said your software works beautifully well and I´m sure that this ramdisk contributes greatly to the good sound I have now. So far I haven´t had any problem with the sizes provided originally by Alain although, to tell the truth, I only charge one album at a time (flac or wav). Anyway, following Peter advise I´m going to increase the sizes of both ramdisks to 3Gb for the XXHE drive and 10Gb for the Playback Drive, that leaves 11Gb for XXHighEnd that should be enough, now I´m using again 24Gb of Ram.
I encourage other people to try it even if it is just for SQ, in my case it is better than ever as I say. Of course I do understand the point of view of Peter and, as you said Alain, the last word belongs to him.

Again I´d like to thank Alain publicly for his helpful work.

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Juan

I use Imdisk but in someway modified by Alain making it easy to work with it. It creates two virtual disks named like two floppy discs A and B, you can give them the values you want but I gave them 2Gb for the Playback Drive and 500Mb for XXHighEnd/XXData. I gave this values because although previously I was using 24Gb of Ram now I downsized to 16Gb in order to use as less power as possible from the PSU, I´m just testing it and maybe I´ll return to 24Gb to give a bigger size to the Playback Drive. As I suggested, I would ask Alain about it when he returns from vacation one of these days, I´m sure he can give a much better explanation than me on how it works and how can it be installed.

Just in case you want to go ahead by yourself here you have information about Imdisk: http://www.ltr-data.se/opencode.html/#ImDisk

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Juan