They are beautiful indeed Congratulations ! Any music would love to be played by these

Alain

Hi Sonic,

It will be interesting to read your results as you test XXHE. What I like here is that even if a report is not positive, it is always taken as a creative step from the unexpected and as a community, we can just grow from all the inputs that each one of us adds.

Ottawa - I have a few cousins over there and from Gatineau. I am in the Laurentians (north of Montreal). "Go Sens Go" and "Go Habs Go" !  

Alain

Hi Sonic,

No problem at all We are all in the same hobby Don't be fooled by the amount of my posts. It is so friendly here that it is easy to do so.

By the way, I should have done it first...

 

Alain

Hi Sonic,

I can only speak on my behalf of course, but I can assure you that you should hear improvements with XXHighEnd over JRiver. While I sometimes use JRiver (I discovered JRiver before XXHE) on my all purpose PC, when it comes to my sound system, I only use XXHE.

I have upgraded things up to a desktop 2 years ago, but before I was playing with XXHE on a 4GB HP NX7400 (I still am in fact, when I go on vacation), with a 1.6GHZ core 2 duo (not really powerful). It was playing with no hiccups, even if sometimes, depending on the format of your files and the adjustments I would make with XXHE, it could take longer after pressing the "Play" button to have the music started. And if you really push the system to its limits with the adjustements (and it is very possible), you could have some hiccups. There are "safe adjustments", not necessarily the best, but it will prevent those hiccups and still let real good sound come out of your speakers

For sure, you can try XXHE in demo mode. It will not allow you to use all the adjustments one can make once you get a licence for it, but it will already show you a good part of all that it can offer.

I am sure that Peter will make a better portrait about XXHE than I can, but at this precise time, I think it is almost 1am on his side of the world

But he will answer you, that's for sure !

Regards,

Alain
PS: I don't have the best ears in the world, but if I can hear what XXHE has that the other software don't, I am quite sure you will be able to hear something really good !

Hi Anthony,

I will find it here
http://www.phasure.com/index.php?topic=2944.msg31692#msg31692

Alain

a "Y" USB cable with a ground loop

Peter, can you provide at least one hint apart from "Yo" to seed some food for thoughts ?

Alain

Software ? Hardware ? Kitchenware ?

Is this a new way to determine who will buy stocks for Phasure going to the stock market

Oy ?

Ha ha I mean Paul yes

Alain

Peter, just a suggestion ? Maybe send to Mani a file consisting of a drum session that you use to make comparisons on your system ?

Alain

Hi Mani,

I was quite sure that you experimented quite a few things before installing everything, but your explanations are priceless for those who would not ask these questions but would wonder

The NOS1 (will be with an "a" when Peter will ask me to send it) is my reference, so I know what you mean. That was why I put the word "heretic" - I even hesitated before writing my questions

And I know I am in very good company here, with "our family", either from XXHE, the NOS1 and/or the two of them. Be assured that I heavily rely on what I read here (and appreciate)

...And I consider that you are a lucky man to have such wonderful speakers 

Regards,

alain
Edit: I replaced "gifted" with "lucky man" - my bad (English is still a work in progress for me)

Hi Mani,

I know it will sound heretic, but have you tried with the PM 2 to compare ?

And like Paul suggested, maybe with shorter cables ?

I did once a test with my PC and NOS1 in another room, with XLR cables. I don't know what took me to buy these extra long cables (75 feet !) and with a higher inductance (not good) than the ones you have (can't recall what it was, but it was high). The sound was "grey". That was all for my experience and I quickly moved the PC and NOS1 back where they were before...

Alain

Funny... When I got my speakers in 2010, I was shocked the first times, because there was obviously a lack of LF and the same with the HF. It took me a few months to get used to it, but everybody that was passing by and listening to music through my sound system was perceiving the same thing: lack of LF.

Strangely enough, on certain recordings where I was expecting more bass (from my souvenirs), there was less. On other where I never really heard LF, what I was hearing was more profound and clean. I could hear tones and that was new to me.

Each day I was talking to a friend and saying "I don't know if I will get used to this sound"... I believed that the components I got were at least slightly better that what I was using before. Even so, I bought 2 subs to compensate for this lack of LF in many recordings and it brought back some of what I was used to. But sometimes I wasn't sure if it was for the better.

I have to add that when I discovered this, I had my Bryston BDA-1 (I still have it, but I don't really use it, except when my NOS1 will be between Peter's hands for its upgrade to NOS1a).

Now I can't say that this is perfect nor that this is what is happening here, but at least I know that the sound I hear now is a lot cleaner than what I was used to before.

It always surprises me when I read that a dac brought more LF in someone's present. Maybe there are more than one explanation for this.

I have grown since with the feeling that more bass is not necessarily for the better, except for what we read here.

I guess that "everything matters"...

Alain