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46  Ultimate Audio Playback / Your thoughts about the Sound Quality / Re: 0.9u-6 early thoughts on: March 14, 2008, 01:43:24 am
I am lost here.
Are you guys going away from bit perfect with your pre-processing data?
Is that is what is going on. Your posts are very confusing!!!
47  Ultimate Audio Playback / Your thoughts about the Sound Quality / Re: Interesting Q1 & .9U-2 on: March 03, 2008, 02:17:54 pm
Forgot about business

I think it related somehow to the threads interactions, or their priorities.
I for example don't like RealTime priority or something above Normal. It gives the same thing.
And my wild guess is it progress bar syncing with playing thread
48  Ultimate Audio Playback / Your thoughts about the Sound Quality / Re: Interesting Q1 & .9U-2 on: March 03, 2008, 02:12:02 pm
Hehe shrink huh?
Happy
Ok let's compare what I sense to what old people feel in their legs when the weather is about to change.

It's enough to have some minor injury in your body per say and it tells you when something is wrong.
It's like when you're healthy you just ignore minor pain it is all in your head, but when something starts to ache it will give new sensation. sixth seventh and so on. And you understand that it is not only your head where you dwell in.
Well it's funny Now but ....
And again it's nothing new.

You were asking for it. Happy

Please don't call a doctor...
49  Ultimate Audio Playback / Your thoughts about the Sound Quality / Re: Interesting Q1 & .9U-2 on: March 03, 2008, 01:01:09 pm
Here is what I observed:

1. 9u-3 Attended plays a lot better. Another level of perfect for me. Really good
2. 9u-3 Unattended gives me that uneasy feeling again.
3 9u-2 Unattended/Attended same as 2. Although 9u-3 a bit better.

Actually the uneasy feeling was always there since 09.u with only exception for 24/192 DAC setting for my Juila card.
And now it's gone again with 0.9u-3 Attended on my other cheap device.

So Peter, what you sense when hearing 9u-3 attended vs Unattended corresponds to my my bad feeling I always talking about when something is wrong with the sound.
It would be great if this "mapping" is true in all cases and then you won't need a jitter geek to tell bad sound(jitter) from good.


Andrey
50  Ultimate Audio Playback / Your thoughts about the Sound Quality / Re: Interesting Q1 & .9U-2 on: March 03, 2008, 12:28:38 pm
give me a sec... Happy
51  Ultimate Audio Playback / Your questions about the PC -> DAC route / USB audio interfaces and XX exclusive mode on: February 20, 2008, 02:07:57 pm
Hi,

A question to those who use USB audio adapter/card/interface as the default device in Vista for playback with XX.

Does XX is in exclusive mode with it:

1. Are you able to see the volume level bars animation in the vista audio device panel.
2. Are you able to change the volume control in Vista mixer when XX plays
3. Are you able to to mute the sound in Vista mixer when XX plays.

I have an a cheap usb audio adapter and I am able to change the volume and mute the sound though Vista's mixer.
If it is a standard usb audio device why does not XX takes exclusive mode with it.

And why it does not complain about it. It just plays the music. Why XX would not tell me that it could not take exclusive control.

Andrey

52  Ultimate Audio Playback / Your thoughts about the Sound Quality / Re: How .9u Sounds on: February 19, 2008, 10:00:54 pm
Not so fast ... Happy
First I want to understand what happened whith your other setup. As far as I can tell Edward must be right ...

Indeed I used 2 -3 songs in 16/44.1 format and with these songs I went through all settings from DAC is 16/44.1 to DAC is 32/192 with DAC needs 32 bits.
And for all settings I was able to hear my 16/44.1 songs with no errors.

Now regarding that bad feeling of mine: All settings except for 24/* gave me taht bad feeling. But 24/* is just perfect.

Does this help?
53  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: 09.U-0a setup with external USB DAC on: February 19, 2008, 09:47:16 pm
Hi

Just in case...
Did you try to set "32 bits (most often)" radio button on the DAC needs section

54  Ultimate Audio Playback / Your thoughts about the Sound Quality / Re: How .9u Sounds on: February 19, 2008, 09:37:20 pm
Peter,

For those with 16/44.1 only cards, ok namely for me (my other setup), please make that special version, which you already changed.

Thanks
Andrey
55  Ultimate Audio Playback / Your thoughts about the Sound Quality / Re: How .9u Sounds on: February 19, 2008, 09:20:41 pm
I am playing regular 16/44.1 cd ripped files.
What I was saying refers to settings area, "DAC is 24 bits 192.0 KHz" combobox not the track formats.
56  Ultimate Audio Playback / Your thoughts about the Sound Quality / Re: Version 0.9U feedback on: February 19, 2008, 08:23:04 pm
Totally!  Wink
57  Ultimate Audio Playback / Your thoughts about the Sound Quality / Re: How .9u Sounds - The bad feeling's gone! on: February 19, 2008, 07:55:57 pm
Hi Peter/Russ/All,

I can join Russ' nirvana now!!!

I tried them all from 16/44.1 upto 32/whatever.
And that bad feeling stayed fro all of them untill I came to 24/44.1(192) and voila it sounds without any discomfort and still better than t-7.
I am using 0dB. Don't want to try to bypass preamp for now. Although I have the option on my integrated amp.

But the idea is it sounds good again.

Edit: works only with 32 bit. and with 24 fails
Edit: In the "DAC needs" section

Andrey

PS: Will try to play with my el cheapo card tomorrow. But as I can remeber now it does not support other than 16/44.1 and the bad feeling is there.
58  Ultimate Audio Playback / Your thoughts about the Sound Quality / Re: How .9u Sounds on: February 19, 2008, 01:20:01 pm
Peter,

It has just occurred to me that in both of my setups I have a single core CPU so no scheme is applied.

Andrey
59  Ultimate Audio Playback / Your thoughts about the Sound Quality / Re: How .9u Sounds on: February 19, 2008, 11:48:22 am
Peter,

invert is left unchecked all the time.
Thanks for the new version for me.
Actually it is strange that we (Russ and I) hear the difference where you did not intend to change anything.

Andrey
60  Ultimate Audio Playback / Your thoughts about the Sound Quality / Re: How .9u Sounds on: February 19, 2008, 11:03:31 am
Yes it is all unattended.
To clarify: The SQ improvement is huge with 0.9ua version, it is just this little thing that poops the party for me, pardon my French.
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