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on: November 10, 2009, 11:46:27 pm
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Because I want a multichannel solution, I plan to get the Asus Essence ST with the H6 DAC expansion board. I didnt know the opamps were swappable on the extension board as well. This makes it really good. There is only ONE problem with the Asus drivers and it is that they dont change sample rate on the fly... yet. Another option would be the Omega Claro Halo XT, but I prefer the BB dacs on the Asus card. |
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Ultimate Audio Playback / Chatter and forum related stuff / Re: XXHE and DSP claims
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on: November 10, 2009, 11:42:43 pm
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Lots of people suspects that Amarra (a player for mac) does DSP. That has not being denied by their developers. I was not aware that such claims were made for xxhe. But we know that this is not true and Peter is only doing his best to make the software NOT sound (excluding upsampling from the equation for the moment).
Such claims are just silly imo.
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Ultimate Audio Playback / Playback Tweaks and Source related subjects / Re: Does Improving PC PSU and Reducing PC EMI/RFI Improve SQ?
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on: November 03, 2009, 11:24:03 pm
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THIS IS GREAT
Good bye to that Magma stuff which for functionality is the best out there, but this just equals it (did you see the laptop card ?).
If this existed 6 months ago I'll eat some ties.
But about that ... I can't even find it back when going through their products ...
Ok, you can be sure I'll get me one of these and measure noise and everything. Will try some good power supplies as well. You might want to wait for the results.
David, thanks man.
I dont get which benefit this gives over a computer with no moving parts and which draw not much power. I haven't done comparisons and i think i never will since my next soundcard will be firewire. |
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Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: Short interruptions in playback en very tiny hickups since y3 and y4
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on: October 30, 2009, 02:00:37 pm
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Hi All,
Before I started this thread, and after installation the OS, I did not install any anti-virusprogram. Switched off Defender too. First time I did Yesterday because of a rongish understanding of Telstar's reply. After the install , of the A-virusprogram, I did a total scan and uninstalled the program again.
Yes Peter, sorry I did not tell you about the virtual memory. I had switched it off already before I started this thread, some two weeks ago.
I have to leave the house now, and will send some screenshots and loggings, no, no leggings, later in the evening.
Thanks all for the compassion,
Ed
I do not have other suggestions to you, except this: -restart your pc -open task manager/processes (tick show all users) and sort by cpu% -check if there is something that goes above 5% most of the time, if so click on its properties and tell us. |
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Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: Short interruptions in playback en very tiny hickups since y3 and y4
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on: October 28, 2009, 11:09:23 pm
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Hi Johan, Hi Peter,
I did kill vista/w7 like peter advised. In fact, it is one of the first things I do after a good working fresh install. In my case I have eventually put some more disc-activities from automatic to manually.
Yesterday late night I did put the latest bios in my little Intel-board, fiddeld with the PCI latency settings, switched on Hpet in the bios, and some more crazy things. But no gain! Too much disc activity still! Causing stops. I tried without Hyperthreading as well. No effect!
Johan, my new setup is one 2.5 inch sata disc with both XXhi-end and W7 Ultimate 64bits on sata 0. A second sata-disc with the music on it on the second sata connection on the board. So both intern!
My momentary dac , 24/192, is the PCI audiocard from ASUS, the Xonar essence st, works pretty good, even with the four times upsampling and Arc Prediction.
Today I even played with a seperate USB mediaplayer as extern musiccontainer disc, made regrettably no difference in the dropout behaviour.
In the meantime I have forgotten what I did more, instead of getting to bed on a reasonable time. But I fancy playing around with the toys, so.....
Hope you(and I) will find a solution eventually.
Keep your ears open!!!
Regards,
Ed
You dont have any of the following: -antivirus -defrag (of all brands but the ones that are not resident such as defraggler) -any of the cr*ppy asus utility (es. asus probe) -some of the autoupdate stuff from creative Go to your control panel and check for those. also post a list of the running processes. There must be something bugged (my first suspect is asus probe). |
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Ultimate Audio Playback / Your questions about the PC -> DAC route / Re: Maybe a desktop afterall.....
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on: October 27, 2009, 03:41:03 pm
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My motherboard is not in the signature, it's also a gigabyte (because they are among the few who provide a TI firewire chip onboard), the model is GA-EG45M-UD2H http://www.giga-byte.co.uk/Products/Motherboard/Products_Spec.aspx?ProductID=3021It costs 80-90 euros. It has integrated video (decent enough to run BD with a 2,4ghz+ dual core processor), and all the things you will ever need in a dedicated music pc. I'm a PC enthusiast, and I have built my own computers for over 10 years now, with or without overclock. I have never used a gigabyte board, but they are really stable now, most models with socket 775. |
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Ultimate Audio Playback / Your questions about the PC -> DAC route / Re: Maybe a desktop afterall.....
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on: October 26, 2009, 12:46:12 pm
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Thanks for the replies. Telstar, how can one know whether the S3 suspend mode works well beforehand? On my current setup, everytime the computor goes into sleep mode when I forget to turn it off, I always have to restart or XX won't work. Obviously, I don't know much about computers so thanks for indulging me. I usually turn off xxhe before i make it sleep, but i dont think makes a difference. Any daughterboard or even external device can cause problems to the sleep mode. The only thing you can do is first of all get a mainboard that is not bugged in this respect (many are). |
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Ultimate Audio Playback / Your questions about the PC -> DAC route / Re: Maybe a desktop afterall.....
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on: October 25, 2009, 03:24:57 pm
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I think the cpu power you need for xxhe with quad upsampling is no more than the cheapest E**** intel dual core that money can buy. I went with an E5300 a few months ago, and it wont be a bottleneck. Unless you plan to use the machine also for BD or graphics/video editing you don't need anytghing faster. You can get of course which is the best price/perf ratio at the moment. That excludes the core i5 and i7 for sure (IMO). Because older intel-based motherboards are just more STABLE. You want an S3 suspend mode that works and works well, you may want a good (T.i.) firewire onboard (available on some gigabyte mobos like mine). In short, going for a custom build is the way to go  No regrets. Ah one, I'll be going completely fanless soon. |
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Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: Volume change errors fixed ?
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on: October 25, 2009, 11:51:50 am
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Ah, that is a god thing to know. And yes, you obviously use it in the beginning of a track (me too btw).
My count is still at 1, so trying to let it happen and solve it from there is a no-go. Maybe I can tweak it. I mean, I know it is going to happen, which is why you get the nice message in the first place (if I let it go without message things really go wrong). But then the music stops (accompanied by the P-P-P buffer bug that Infrasonic is looking at). I mean is not just the error window |
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Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: Volume change errors fixed ?
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on: October 25, 2009, 12:15:25 am
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Lil update.
I've been monitoring these errors. 100% are the "remote" type. They mostly happens at the beginning of a new track, when i change the volume to "normalize" it to the desired level. Even if i wait like 10s, it still occurs. In the middle of a track it doesnt seem to happen.
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