Ok, thank you Peter, tomorrow I´ll reinstall W8 and let you know about it.

Regards,
Juan

Run cmd as administrator was not possible. I´ve received this message:

C:\Windows\system32\cmd.ex

The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or because it has not enabled devices associated with it.

Juan

Hi Peter, I went to cmd and typed: bcdedit /set bootmenupolicy legacy [enter] but the access is denied (The boot configuration data store could not be opened)

Is that what I should do?

Juan

Ok, thanks Peter I´m trying to understand that Restore issue 

Juan

I could go to the Restore point if I know where it is because yes I accepted it.

So far I rebooted four or so times with no results. I´m using a W8 Pro version and I installed it in a new partition, so no W7 upgrade.

Juan

Hi Peter, no, I didn´t anything with the UAC, just checked it because I forgot to check it when I installed XXHE, as it was ok all the way down I didn´t do anything, although I remember that when I closed that window appeared a message with "A reboot is necessary to apply changes" (or something similar). That message surprised me because I had not applied any changes.

The only other thing I did was to run Ccleaner and clean the registry and the lost files, I used it before many times in W7 and always was ok, the version I used now is also for W8. I can´t use Ccleaner now either to restore the registry and the files. There are a lot of things that now don´t work anymore. I guess that it will stay that way until I can open XX and turn off Minimize the OS.

I haven´t used the Administrator account nor created any other account nor started XXHE as administrator. There are no upgrades at all.

All what I did was done in XXHE like turn off all the services, turn on unattended and Minimize OS. The problem came after the reboot.

Now I see that when I click in the reboot message, the one when I try to launch XXHE, nothing happens but if I click Enter in the keyboard then the reboot works but after that when clicking in the XXHE shortcut the message appears again.

Maybe I should try to fix the OS choosing the fixing option, not making a complete W8 installation. I wouldn´t like to go again to the whole process (and buying a new XX Activation Code  )

Thanks,
Juan

There is no way to open the UAC, when I go to the Control Panel > System and Security > Action Center > Change User Account Control Settings there is no way to open it, like there is no way to change the Firewall settings or turn it on.

Juan

Once I´ve installed W8 and XXHE with the activation code, all was working fine but after I rebooted for Minimize OS and Unattended there is no way to launch XXHE.

The message I receive once I click in the XXHE shortcut in the desktop is this one:

CHECK UAC
After this a Reboot is required to put through changed User Account Control Settings;
Not allowing for this will quit XXHighEnd

Reboot?

Yes / No

When I click to Reboot nothing happens.

The changes I had made before I rebooted to Minimize OS were:

- Checking the UAC to see if the bar was all the way down, as it was down I didn´t made any change.

- Disabled the Window Firewall and all the notifications

I disabled the firewall before I tried to minimize the OS for the first time.

Juan

Hey Brian, Nick or others using W8. Could you tell me please if you´re using the same Bios settings and also in the Device Manager you were using in W7, I mean the ones suggested by Nick?.

Brian, I don´t remember any word about the Renesas "program" you are talking about, just that I installed the driver, would you please remind me about it?

Juan

I´m installing XX in W8 rigth now so I´m still using the old Renesas USB 3.0 Driver (2.0.34.0) which was working fine. So far I only played a couple of songs and the best I can say is that there is sound and that it seems quite good. I´ll try the new drivers later and let you know.

Regards,
Juan

What´s exactly the driver and firmware you´re using?. Is there any difference in SQ with the previous ones?

Thanks,
Juan

Offensive, stupid, or both at once?

Juan

Well, I guess that at the end the best method to determine the correct phase are our ears. With the correct phase the bass is firmer and well located in one place, the voices are also well defined and located.

Could be also that the "out of phase" are ourselves, but that´s other story...

Juan

Alain, probably you have read this article but just in case:

"Phase issues take on a far different magnitude in a recording situation, and can quickly become complicated. In most recording sessions, we’re dealing with multiple instruments and multiple microphones. As sound waves of different frequencies reach different microphones at different times, the potential for one microphone’s diaphragm to receive a positive phase while another receives a negative is greatly increased, and the relationship between all of these different waves’ phases can be somewhat unpredictable. In fact, the more mics in play, the more inevitable some sort of phase issues become".

This is the complete article: http://www.uaudio.com/blog/understanding-audio-phase/

Juan

Hi Alain,

Maybe this test can help you:

http://www.audiocheck.net/audiotests_polaritycheck.php

Regards,
Juan