No, I haven´t read it although I´ve tried, that´s because I can´t find it. Where is that Blocksize section?


If I had known that a few days ago... Probably I haven´t understood you well before.

Thanks


Thank you Mani, I´m now coping all the tracks of my music drive to another drive and after that I will format it, my only 2Tb music drive. I already formatted the Playback Drive but until I finish the whole process I can´t test it, maybe tomorrow. What I don´t know is if the tracks that were originally in a drive with NTFS (4096 bytes), as they were in my music drive, and I return that tracks again to the drive once it is formatted as NTFS (64kb) if that is correct or not or if I should rip again all the music.

I formatted the Playback Drive the way I use to, but if it doesn´t work I´ll follow the way you mention.

I won´t touch the OS/XX drive, let´s see if with what I´m doing now all is ok.

Thank you again.


I can´t test it now but if I remember well I heard the ticks after some seconds after I applied the volume change.
I will test everything again with and without the Playback Drive once I finish the process of formatting drives.

Regards,

Juan

What I don´t understand is the way to format the disk as it is explained in How to let XXHighEnd format a Volume (more advanced) http://www.phasure.com/index.php?topic=2086.0

What I said is that I always format the drives the way I have described in the post. As in this way to format doesn´t appear those Hidden Folders I wasn´t sure if I was formatting the drive correctly.

What I also wanted to know is if I must format with NTFS 64Kb blocksize also the drive where the OS and XX are (now it is NTFS 4096 bytes). Of course in this case I´ll have to make a new installation of both, the OS and XX.

Regards,
Juan

Hey Mani, I´m going to format my drives to see if this way I can avoid the stops I have now playing with Allow Phase Alignment and SFS 2. Now I have my drives formated as NTFS but with blocksize of 4096 bytes. Peter recommends NTFS with 64 KB blocksize.

I don´t understand the way explained in the manual, so far I formated the drives with a right click in the drive => Format and there I can choose the file system and the blocksize. Is it not valid this way to format the drive?.

Do I have to format all the drives, I mean the one with the OS and XX plus the ones with music, or just the ones with the music files?

Best regards, Juan

Ok, thanks.
Juan

Sorry if I haven´t explain myself with enough clarity.

Always with SFS 2.0 and Phase Alignment Engaged:

- With Playback Drive: I have some plops at the start of the first track and when I change volume. However there are no stops.

- Without Playback Drive: I have the same plops as before but also the sound stops after a few minutes of playing.

Now I´m not using the Playback Drive, not until I solve the problems. I use only the Music drive.


I used the values between Q1=-1 and Q1=4 without positive results. Still the plops and stops.


My PC has two external lights, one is the on/off light and it is permanently on, the other one is the restart light and is flashing lightly all the time with SFS 2.0 or with SFS 50 with or without glitches. Is it the indication of some problem?.


Of course you can´t tune everyone´s system one by one but you are a reference for all of us and we, the less technically prepared, need to follow your steps. Otherwise, sorry to say, it appears as something absolutely incomprehensible, at least to me.

As far as I know you have chosen the SFS 2.0 setting and if it works for you, and with that setting you get a great sound, I´d like that it would work for me also.
How do I know if SFS 2.0 sounds better or worse than SFS 50 if can´t make it works with SFS 2.0?.

Btw, I read several times the A Guide to Glitchless Playback as I mentioned in a previous post and found it very useful but even with that help I can´t solve all my problems.


All my hdds are formated as NTFS, I don´t know more details about that.

Thank you, Juan

As I said I have stops and pops when I use the settings that can be seen in the previous post. I can avoid the glitches if I set the SFS to 50, the sound is also great but it seems more accurate with SFS at 2.0

Following the advises of A Guide to Glitcless Playback
(http://www.phasure.com/index.php?topic=2029.0), I´ve started the Task Manager to watch the cpu and memory behaviour, I haven´t seen notorious spikes at different settings as you can see in some printed screens.

At the end in the Guide it is said: "If you hear problems but don't see it on the cpu graph, watch the disk light and see whether it's related."
I don´t understand what disk light is talking about.

Juan

Thanks Peter,

When I shut off the Wallpaper Coverart the sound stops after arourd 4 or 5 minutes the same way with the Wallpaper Coverart activated. This happens always when I don´t use the Playback Drive.

Sorry I have no clear what you mean with "net buffer", is it the Device Buffer or the USB buffer in the Control Panel?

I post here the screens of my settings to see if this way is easier to see if I have some error.

Juan

That´s an old issue. Months ago I posted this: About ripping
Please take a look, you also wrote some posts there:

http://www.phasure.com/index.php?topic=1908.msg19574#msg19574

I use now dbPoweramp because is faster than EAC but I have some of my favorits albums ripped also with EAC, once in a while I play them and to tell you the truth not always I can find differences, but I always have in mind the feeling that EAC has a more pleasant sound without loosening details.

Best regards,
Juan

If you are talking about hardware this is what I use for Playback Drive: USB 3.0 WD Elements 1TB (bus powered) connected to a powered hub of USB 3.0 seven ports (power adapter 5V/4A).


Well, I don´t have zero glitches, there is some pops when the first track is engaged and when I rise or down-rise the volume, no other glitches besides the mentioned stops. What I wanted to say is that the Manual says is that that glitches can be ameilloriated (less audibles) with more attenuation, etc.

What is certain is that using the Playback Drive avoids the stops although not the pops as the start of the album and when volume is changed.

Juan

I´m having stops while playing 09z-07 with SFS 2, Allow Phase Alignment activated and Phase active (+), Phase Intensity=1 and volume level -28,5/-33db. This happens when I play the music directly from my Music hdd. As it is said in the Manual, that could be improved (avoid the stops) with bigger SFS, more attenuation or with less Phase Intensity, the problem is that I like the sound with those settings. I realized that using the Playback Drive with those settings, the best ones for me, I can avoid the stops.

Although I thought that Playback Drive was sounding worse than using the Music hdd directly now after more listening time I think that the sound is very very similar, if not the same. I wonder if you, Peter, have any explanation on why using the Playback Drive can avoids the stops.

Best regards, Juan

No, you just use it in your Music PC (the one you were building)

Hi Peter, what´s the idea to use such a big (2Tb) hdd for Playback Drive?. Every time XX is closed the Playback drive is empty. Don´t you close XX once in a while?. Ok, hdds are cheaper every time but 500Gb or 1Tb for Playback Drive is not enough?.

Juan

Ok Peter, that sounds pretty clear.


Well, the door open again...

Juan

Thanks Paul,
Probably I've been behind on this issue. So you applied all the updates or just some of them?

Juan

Congratulations Paul, once you can use PA I´m sure you´ll be surprised about the new sound.

If I understand you well you reloaded the OS and then you updated it, with all the upates?. So far I´m using the OS without updates and the sound is terrific...

Best regards, Juan