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Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Small cosmetic improvement would help a lot
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on: July 22, 2007, 12:05:33 pm
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Hi Peter I guess like many others, my PC sits near the Hi-Fi system and I sit on my chair several feet away. Now my eyesight is not too bad, but I do have difficulty in seeing the track time-elapsed bar at the bottom. When you have a spare moment  , and are issuing an updated version, could you make the indictor more bold. Thanks Chris |
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Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: Glitches on my Dell (Not XX related)
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on: July 21, 2007, 10:37:08 pm
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Test your glitches !!
Well the good news is the glitches are about an order of magnitude better. I now get about 1 glitch every 4 tracks instead of 4 glitches per track.  256 is the safest Fireface latency I can work at without things going a bit pear shaped - at one time I had the blue screen of death, after which glitches were worse than ever until I turned off and on again. I still have most of the earlier fixes to apply, such as updating all the Dell mobo drivers etc, so am optimistic things will be OK.  |
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Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: Glitches on my Dell (Not XX related)
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on: July 21, 2007, 10:29:16 pm
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Hi Peter I'm back from my hols and ready to get stuck in again.  My replacement Dell computer was sitting on my doorstep. Have installed all softwares and drivers and am ready to give it a full test drive. BUT, my activation code was for my other PC which is dead as dead can be. I have tried the code on the new PC but I guess I wouldn't have expected it to work. What do I do now?  Thanks Chris Hi Chris If I understood correctly when reading about retaining activation.... Once you have activated XXHighEnd, you should then save the entire XXHighEnd program to another place and retain it. If your machine/HardDrives crash or break, you then pull out your saved copied of XXHighEnd that was undemoed and start with it, then copy the lastest version (or the version you want to use) directly over your now installed XXHighEnd folder that was undemoed. Do I understand this right? (paranoia strikes deep for me, so I've got my original undemoed XXHighEnd saved on two different HardDrives and a cdr hehehe) I don't think it matters what machine you pull it to. I activated XXHighEnd on my Front End and then copied the whole XXHighEnd folder to another completely different machine in the house and it works on both. Do you have your original XXHighEnd undemoed player somewhere else (cdr/another HD)? Peter, does entering in your activation code again in a new demo version of XXHighEnd work? This is a lesson learnt in terms of back up, but the computer was so new this was just about the only thing that was on there. The last thing I expected was for it to suffer a terminal illness in the loving arms of a Dell engineer  |
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Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: Glitches on my Dell (Not XX related)
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on: July 21, 2007, 04:57:09 pm
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Hi Peter I'm back from my hols and ready to get stuck in again. My replacement Dell computer was sitting on my doorstep. Have installed all softwares and drivers and am ready to give it a full test drive. BUT, my activation code was for my other PC which is dead as dead can be. I have tried the code on the new PC but I guess I wouldn't have expected it to work. What do I do now? Thanks Chris |
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Ultimate Audio Playback / Chatter and forum related stuff / Re: Digital clocks and masters
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on: July 07, 2007, 06:40:55 pm
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Thanks Peter, that makes it pretty clear. The 400 does have the in/out BNC word clock connections  , but the Tact 2.2X does not have an input for word clock. I believe there are several clocks inside doing the business. Out of interest, are there any NOS DACS (TwinDAC+) that currently have a word clock connection? Cheers Chris |
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Ultimate Audio Playback / Chatter and forum related stuff / Digital clocks and masters
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on: July 07, 2007, 12:57:50 pm
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This thought has intrigued me for a while. The signal starts from my PC which I guess has a clock, into the Fireface which also has a clock capable of snc or master and then to my TacT 2.2XX (DAC) where there is probably another clock. Now sonically I believe its best to have a master clock running the whole system, but which one is it and how do you ensure it has taken control. Cheers Chris |
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Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: Glitches on my Dell (Not XX related)
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on: July 06, 2007, 06:32:55 pm
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'Negotiations' with Dell are now concluded.  I have to say they have been very helpful.  They have agreed a new replacement with: 1. Hard drive upgraded from 80 to 120 GB 2. RAM speed upgraded from 533 to 667 MHz 3. Faster, better processor 1.73 to 1.86 GHz 4. Vista Premium upgraded to Vista Ultimate. About £200 worth for free. Pretty good if it works. I'm off on hols for a couple of weeks soon, so it should be ready when I get back.  |
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Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: Glitches on my Dell (Not XX related)
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on: July 06, 2007, 04:09:21 pm
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Oh man ...  Are we all sure this is the way to go ?  Well if XX wasn't the best sound I had heard from my system, I might have to agree with you Dell have agreed to replace my computer with a completely new one, but I have said that I dont want the same model again if it has got sound issues through firewire. They assured me it would not, but as this is the first instance they have heard of this, and since they dont know the cause, how can they give me that assurance? They have gone away to think about it  |
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Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: Glitches on my Dell (Not XX related)
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on: July 06, 2007, 02:49:12 pm
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Further update: The man from Dell has just been to replace the mobo again. This time the PC fired up OK and we connected it to the Hi-Fi. The drop-outs are still there.  The Dell man left, I waved him goodbye and returned to find the PC had turned itself off. Any attempt to restart it, results in 3 flickering lights, but no action on the screen which is blank. After one minute it turns itself off again. I think I will go for a lie down in a darkened room.  |
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Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: Can't drag files from Explorer onto Playlist area
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on: July 06, 2007, 12:42:44 pm
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Most probably you have several disks (like the interal HDD and possibly USB disks, or something you can reach over the LAN). Now, assuming you do have a few of these possibilities, could you please check whether from each of those it doesn't work. I'm using XX on a stand alone laptopsMore or less related, could you also check this : You logon to your Vista system with a Username; This Username is shown in Explorer, right underneath "Desktop"; Somewhere underneath your Username, the files you just tried to drag onto XX might exist. But, I don't know how reliable the Search function from Explorer is in there (because Vista is tricking things here). Anyway, you should look for *.WAV files obviously. If you don't find anything, open a Dos box (start button - run - cmd), which will bring you to the folder (directory) with your Username (c:\Users\[your Username]). In there, type dir *.wav /s If your files show up there, that's the problem. When this is so indeed, we'll proceed from there. Man just arrived to rip my Dell apart again, so will try later |
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Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: Glitches on my Dell (Not XX related)
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on: July 05, 2007, 03:17:12 pm
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Hi Peter I would like to think it was something I had done wrong in the drivers/software/Bios domains but my machine glitched from brand new out the box. The Dell engineer just spent 90 minutes installing a new mobo, only to find a hard disk error which indicated the new board was 'Dead On Arrival'. Just my luck  . He will be back tomorrow with another new one.  |
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