Today died George Moustaki

Although the title of this topic is Enjoy it! today is a sad day

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV8fGf-N06A

Juan

Hey Bob,

As you can see in the first post of this topic I use, like many other people here, one hdd for OS and XXHighEnd, other hdd (or as many as you need) for music and finally another hdd for Playback drive, this one has nothing inside but one folder. XXHE use this hdd to put there the list of music you are going to listen and that music is erased every time you close XXHE. As far as I know by your private mails your problem is how to format this Playback drive or more exactly how to find the System Volume Information File folder http://www.phasure.com/index.php?topic=2086.0
I couldn´t help you more on this issue so maybe Peter or someone else can help you better than me on how to format this hdd.

When you have the Playback drive correctly set up probably you´ll solve your other problems.

Bob, please put your signature in the post, that´s the way we can see your system and configuration and help you better.

Best regards,
Juan

The last time I checked the sound with and without the card I realized that the soundstage is bigger, the sound is clearer and with more detail with it installed.

Hey Peter, I am prepared to receive a totally opposite opinion to mine, jeje 

Best regards,
Juan

Hey Didi,

That Lenovo seems to be a terrific computer and I´m sure you get a fantastic sound. Have you had the opportunity to compare the SQ of this laptop with a desktop of similar characteristics?.

I´d be interested to know also, in case you have tested it, the differences you have found between:

-SSD vs Hdd for OS and XXHighEnd
 
-the use of RAMdisk for Playback drive vs the use of a hdd for Playback drive

- the use of W8 vs W7

And finally the use of a preamp with the NOS1 vs the use of the NOS1 without preamp.

I ask you all of this because your setup looks quite different from most people, I´d say even that you are taking the opposite route, of course I don´t want to say that you are wrong.

Best regards,
Juan

Thank you guys!

Regards,
Juan

The only USB device connected to my computer (besides the NOS1) is the external Playback drive, I´ve found that I get the best sound when I connect this drive to the TeckNet USB 3.0 PCI Express Card which at the same time is filtered by the ApeXi Power Filter Card. I´ve tried all the mb USB ports and none have bettered the sound I get connecting it to the TeckNet card. As this Playback drive is externally powered and it is connected to the TeckNet card with an USB 3.0 cable I wonder if I could use the iFi-audio iUSB to power that connection between the Playback drive and the TeckNet card and if that would have any influence in SQ. The problem I see is that the iFi-audio iUSB is just for USB 2.0.

Juan

Hey Peter, haven´t you received the card yet?

Juan

Thanks Peter, in fact I only use Real Temp to test the cores temperatures while XXHighEnd is running. I gave the BIOS temperatures also just to give a complete information. The BIOS temp. gave a value near of the maximum (41ºC) reached by some of the cores at a specific moment (43ºC), while the temperature of the cores was stabilized at 31ºC/34ºC.

Juan

Alain,

Sorry, it was me that haven´t understand you well. What if you try to remove the back cover and the filters to start?. Test the temperature that way, the FT-02 case has a special configuration that allows the heat flow easily toward the upper part of the case but the back of the cpu is very close to the back isolated cover and probably if you remove that cover the temperature of the CPU will be lower. Keep the bottom fans at maximum speed to start just for protection and see what happens.

Juan

Alain, I still have inside the Pc case three hdd, two with music and one with the OS and XXHE. Even with that, the temperature remains in the safe margin.


The only hdd I use connected to an USB port is the Playback drive that you can see in the pictures but it is also externally powered.

Regards,
Juan

Hi Georg,

The Blow Up cd (and vinyl) is famous for its SQ among the audiophiles, personally I don´t play it very often mostly because I don´t like very much the music in this cd but the sound is great anyway, I had the vinyl also and I remember great SQ also.
It was by chance that I took that cd to take the picture.

Best regards,
Juan

The music, stronger than misery

Here's a moving document

http://vimeo.com/52711779


Juan

Alain, Noctua have a lot of fans with the possibility to regulate the speed, not sure if now they use the ULNA but anyway take a look here in the FANS section: http://www.noctua.at/main.php?show=produkte&lng=en

On the other hand the Scythe fan suggested by Peter seems to be a good choice due that it has both possibilities (PWM + VR).



I see that your mb (https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/SABERTOOTH_X79/#gallery) has two fans incorporated... You have also a more powerful processor than mine.

As you can see in the picture of my case I took off the upper and the rear part of the case, no filters either and no fans in the cpu, the only fans that are working are two of the three ones that are in the bottom of the case and they run at the lower speed (800-900 rpm). About the dust I clean it up once in a while with a Giottos air Blower and I keep it clean (http://www.giottos-tripods.co.uk/index.php?page=productpage&product=491846169ec51)

The temperatures I see in the BIOS are:

- CPU: 41ºC
- MB: 39ºC
- MCH: 61,5ºC

You can see in the picture the temperature of the cores with XXHihEnd playing (with Ultimate XTweaks on).

Regards,
Juan

A good selection of classical music performed for first class artists

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7F72BA632D96098B

Juan

Hi Alain,

I know you have read this in HOW I´VE BUILT MY NEW PC...http://www.phasure.com/index.php?topic=1673.msg16893#msg16893 but just in case:

"CPU Cooler. I looked for a way to cool it as silent as possible. As I said the use of water cooling made me kind of insecure so I got a good fan system: the Noctua NH-U12P SE2. Why this Noctua?, because it has good fans, it´s a quiet unit and it´s very versatile. It has two 12mm fans, one at each side of the heatsink, this way you can use one or two fans depending on your needs. This fan uses a way to control the speed that´s called Low-Noise Adaptor  (L.N.A) and Ultra-Low-Noise-Adaptor (U.L.N.A.), depending on the reduction of the fan speed. The adaptor reduce the voltage to a fixed value and that way the rpm. You could think that would be better to control the fan´s speed by the motherboard using PWM (Pulse-width modulation), the PWM makes the fan speed variable but also produces RFI interferences and that´s not good at all for sound. I use just one fan and the ULNA to get 900rpm and 12,6db. So again true silent and between 35ºC and 45ºC in the CPU, not bad at all!.
- CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-U12P SE2: http://www.noctua.at/main.php?show=productview&products_id=31&lng=en&set=2"


You can also take a look here: http://www.noctua.at/main.php?show=productview&products_id=56&lng=en

Best regards,
Juan