Hi Mani, I'm glad that you agree almost entirely with my views.

With respect to the importance of the volume level to get the best sound quality, I have to say that effectively at lower volumes the sound is also fantastic, I just meant that there is a "perfect" volume level (for each listening room) and that given the high quality of sound achieved with the combination of W8 and XXHighEnd that volume level express better the qualities of the sound. Moreover it seems easier to find this "perfect" volume due to the excellent SQ. Some kind of interdependence.

Regards,
Juan

The typewriter

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=G4nX0Xrn-wo&sns=em

Juan

Yesterday I removed the partition where W7 was, convinced as I am that W8 sounds better and also that Peter is not going back to W7 (as he said). So I have now Windows 8 Pro and XXHighEnd 0.9z-9b in one SATA III hdd and nothing else.

All the SQ qualities are not only maintained but improved, especially the sense of palpability of the sound that is now even more remarkable.

Regards,
Juan

At the end the only OS that we´ll use will be W8, it looks that Peter is not going back to W7 and all the upgrades of XXHighEnd will be done for W8. So this dual boot configuration is only for the purpose to make some momentary comparisons between the two OS. That's at least what it seems.

Juan

Hi Stanley,

First disable Minimize OS in XXHighEnd, don´t forget it because frequently we start to make changes with this Minimize OS active and that is impossible, restart and after that and when all is done put the W8 DVD in the CDRom try, restart again and while restarting click repeatedly the key delete, that enters you to the BIOS, there go to EXIT and click on Load Setup Defaults, this is just in case you have modified something previously. Then go to BOOT, there you will find 1st Boot Device, 2nd Boot Device, 3rd Boot Device. With the arrows mark 1st Boot Device and click Enter in your keyboard, a window opens where you have in bold letters the Boot Device you have active now to boot your pc, ok move the arrows until the bold letters are ATAPI CD-ROM (or similar), then click Enter again. Click F10 and Ok (Save configuration changes...).
Now it is supposed that your system will start from your CD Rom (W8 DVD). Then follow the steps from the link I sent you yesterday to install W8 in a partitioin. http://www.buildeasypc.com/sw/windows_8/install_windows_8.htm. To create a partition to install W8 take special attention to steps 8, 9, 10 and 11.

Let me know how it goes and if you find a problem

Best regards,
Juan

Angry seas
Storm in Bretagne (France)

If you can listen it with your speakers put your volume up and full screen in your monitor or tv

Impressive sound and images

http://www.wimp.com/angryseas/

Juan

That´s ok Tore, if you make some findings about settings for better SQ let us know.

Best regards,
Juan

Hi Michel,

12Gb is enough, even 8Gb works also and 16Gb seems to be the maximun you´ll need and I personally would recommend it. I remember reading about it a few days ago in a post from Peter. About the speed, not so sure but I guess that the faster the better.

Regards,
Juan

Hi Michel,

You need to activate it again but you  have to pay only one time. Please read this: http://www.phasure.com/index.php?topic=2131.0

If you find some problem with the activation ask here and we will be glad to help.

Best regards,
Juan

Hi Tore,

Do you like it more with W8 than with W7?



Michel hi and welcome, have you tested it also in W8?

Best regards,
Juan

Stan, see also this tutorial, it is a very good one also, try to read both tutorials, sure you´ll find a solution to your problem:

http://pcsupport.about.com/od/windows-8/ss/windows-8-clean-install-part-1.htm

Here is a list of Windows 8 tutorials, these are tutorials about how to install Windows 8 and other different related issues, nothing related with XXHighEnd. For Windows 8 and XXHighEnd follow Peter´s tutorials.

http://pcsupport.about.com/od/windows-8/windows-8.htm

Juan

Hi Stan,

You have an upgrade version of W8 (from W7 to W8) or it is a  W8 dvd to make a clean installation?

This is the tutorial I followed to install W8, there you can find also links on how to make a partition to install it:

http://www.buildeasypc.com/sw/windows_8/install_windows_8.htm

Regards,
Juan

Hi Peter,

Could you change the name of this topic to "How to install W8 and W7 for dual boot" or something similar?. Now it seems hard to know what it is about. Or maybe is Stan who has to change it as he is the first one in the thread.

Thanks,
Juan

 

De nada Stanley (you are welcome)

Someone else asked (PM) about how to install W8 and W7 for dual boot and I sent him this link http://www.labnol.org/software/install-windows-8-dual-boot/20939/

You can also find there some links that could help you also to solve your problem with your W8 DVD.

Would be a good thing if you could install W8 so you can compare it with W7 and test it with the best settings for each one and see if really W8 and 09-z9 is a good match or not.

Best regards,
Juan