I have ripped HiRes with DVD audio extractor and these play back no problem at .10.

There definitely is a problem with dbpoweramp and some ripped CD's and in association with using XXhighend playback and my computer setup. After extended listening last night I feel the EAC re ripped albums are better sounding.

I must qualify this by saying that a lot of my early rips were done on a laptop so this could also be a factor.

Certainly using an Asus BC-12D2HT x12 blu-ray drive in my new i5 work station everything is working fine. I suppose this could also be a factor in sounding better. As all things laptop certainly can't be called great.

Robert

"boleary" Yes I'm aware of the SFS some Hi res play at 1 and the worst at 4. But quite a few play at .10. I think its solvable but not easy as some don't have this problem at all.
The more recent HD downloads of music recorded recently like Mark Knopfler's Tracker are perfect at .10 but Harry Belafonte's Live at Carnegie Hall will only play all at 4.

Robert

Actually my problem is with certain HD downloads not playing albums right through these are 24/96 and 24/192 or even more than one song would be good. None are ripped but downloaded in wave from respected web sites.

Robert

It should sound the same but I think the problem is dbpoweramp works too fast as Peter mentions.

EAC is a much slower method but perhaps captures more(this is subjective in the digital world as we are relying on a mechanical device to read the original CD accurately and software to process it).

The difference was marginal, I had to listen to a sparse Jazz track(End of the Line) by Randy Crawford and Joe Sample from Feeling Good album. In particular the bass and her voice seemed more natural.

Perhaps I imagined it like the difference in cables!!!

Robert

Well I was a drummer in a former life and vinyl/CD never matched my real drums and cymbals.

In fact I can only say that I have got a lot closer with Computer Audio and recently with Peter's Ram OS xxhighend, cymbals and snare drum in particular have come to life.

I can't imagine an even better sound if I had the NOS Dac which is about to be improved even more!!!

Robert

 

I have ripped more CD's and each plays perfectly and whole albums with EAC. I've compared and although its close I now feel EAC is slightly better in sound over dbpoweramp.

Interestingly some of the problem CD's were encoded with HDCD but EAC ripped, now work perfectly. Thanks acg for bringing this to our attention.

All my HDCD encoded cd's  were problematic with DBpoweramp.

Robert

Meridian 200 CD transport(upgraded clocking), Illuminati BNC interconnect and Benchmark DAC 1(Upgraded power supply and output chips). I mainly listened to blues rock(anything from Hendrix to Jeff Beck), now jazz fusion, nu jazz, electronic, drum and bass and even dub step.

Gosh I had a 20k vinyl setup 15 years ago and my best CD setup beat it $10k then my 5k laptop computer audio beat that, now gosh beyond master tape(the old reel to reel tape).

BUT a chronic shortage of good recordings still prevails in any format.

Robert

Is it necessary to revert back to base and doing disk cleanup and defragging in the Ram OS one uses?

Anything one should do to maintain Ram OS in good working order?

Robert

Yes I thought this may be the case suppose I will re rip the db ones over time.

Have you any luck with the hi res file I sent you?

I'm slowly converting all Saracon files back to original flac or wave. They definitely are better unprocessed.

Robert

EAC is slower but both my CD's played perfectly after ripping. I will use EAC from now on although I have ripped most of my CD's. When I started out in computer audio I did in fact use EAC but paid and changed to dbpoweramp after TCA Chris C recommended it.

Robert

Ok I have had this problem also mainly with some Hires HD track downloads but also the odd ripped CD. When the SFS is set at 4 all albums play through but at .10 the CD's stop after track 2 and the Hires after one track some at two.

I have thought that ripping may be an issue for a while, so today I downloaded EAC and re-ripped two problem CD's. I have been using dbpoweramp for the last 5 years. Well on listening to the first EAC ripped CD it played all tracks and going back to dbpoweramp sure enough it stopped at the end of track 2.

Certainly appears that dbpoweramp has issues on some CD rips. I will try the other CD tomorrow. I don't know what I can do about the Hires downloads but I think its the same problem. I've just bought \HDtracks\Harry Belafonte\Belafonte_ At Carnegie Hall and it only plays one track 24/96 at a time in contrast HDtracks Black Sabbath Vol 4 24/96 plays all tracks. I've split Hires albums into as many as 3 files but still stops after one or two tracks.

SFS at .10 sounds so good its disappointing to reset at 4 and in Ram OS the difference is easy to hear.

Robert

Well the sound is quite removed from what I had and its taken me two weeks to investigate and tweek settings with Easter inbetween.

The sound is everything that is reported and more. Much more of every aspect of sound one would expect to hear.

Its much easier to hear differences between XXhighend settings and recordings.

To this end I have realised passing digital audio files through Saracon is a massive mistake. It does impose a change to music that is not better than the original flac or Wave file. Worse is, this is used in Pro audio to tweek recordings. Mark Waldrep has been on about the state of so called Master tapes and how there are very few that he would call great.

Saracon was recommended by the reviewer of Benchmark DAC2's sometime back when they were newly available. Mind you at the time of my system it did appear to improve things. Isn't it interesting how things can change and some things are discarded in audio.

Anyway great thanks to Peter for his hard work and efforts to create Ram OS, your knowledge of software is amazing.

It works perfectly everytime but I still have issues with some albums not playing all the tracks. I'm shifting house to another City and will have time to investigate this one closely. One thing I want to do is re rip some of my CD's and see if that helps. My early rips may be not correct.

Robert

Hi, found filter problem, custom filtering was set for NOS now all going in RAM 10586.

Gosh is this a conspiracy for me to get a NOS Dac.

I can see this happening oh no more money!!!

Robert

Ok more progress after changing 10565 back to normal OS, boot menu has come right. I had unticked NOS box in RAM 10565, bad boy.

It appears I had also unticked ARC prediction box now filter problems in 10586 seem to have gone. I have not tried Ram yet but its looking good.