Yeah, me too. I thought I could do with a very silent PC, but i was wrong. I need fanless too. Get a DC-DC psu (es. pico-psu) with external transformer, it is safer than fanless AC psus and add no heat to the computer.

Yep:
"This happends when a songs has ended and the next in line does not start."

But my playlists are sometimes a single cd, not from different ones as Gerard. I have to say that I didnt pay much attention if I have more than one cd in playlist.

I get this also quite often, and then after a few seconds (buffer?) the music stops.
More often than the remote thing error when i change the volume.

This is with y-4.

I'm afraid that that price point would incur more compromises that Peter is willing to make.
I remind you that he is selling the DAC without taking int account all the time spent and the money for the test equipment, and with a very little markup. If he were a <insert your favourite highend brand> the DAC would cost from 8k euros up.
That's the naked truth.

Yes, IIRC the wallpaper has to be set as tiles, otherwise it wont work.
Besides this xxhe works in w7 exactly as in vista.

Well if you cant wait or afford the NOS1, your best bets are IMO to stay with the same dac chip and get a good implementation.
The Naim in your list fits the bill (but it is very close in price), the Audio-GD dacs are also good values, esp the reference one at 1500$+shipping and taxes.

I would say close to 50% of the times that I use the volume. Never in any other case. I occasionally have a XXHE stopped working crash, but thats rare.


I never do that (and i'm still using only attended).


Fixed, I added the XX log.

Now, i'm in touch with SIMS support and hope they fix the asio drivers so i can get rid of that buffering issue. If you have some tip for me how to explain them the last fractions of second that is repeted endlessly when i pause or stop the music, it would be really helpful. Now i'm gonna record that, lol

I had the suspicion that my setup with Console, etc made it more commoin (>50% of the times)
Now I think is much more common with the 4x arc upsampling on. I got it another 3 times in a short time.

Now it happened again, on my other computer, without Console and all that rerouting stuff.

It is a "remote command" error as the last time. The interesting thing is that is on a different PC without anything between xxhe and the OS.

Hmmm... I didnt tick invert. Will try that too

Tried (on headphones, OS dac). I dont feel anything ticking invert. But 4/26 vs 4/0, keeping all the rest at 0 is interesting. The higher Q1 has a more smooth sound. I labeled it as distortion before, but now i'm not so sure. It is too hard to compare 4/0/0 vs 4/26/26, so i worked only on the Q1.

I also noticed that with Q1/2 = 0 the sound seems louder, which is not always a positive thing. The conclusion is that i'm more confused than before. I still think that Q1/2=0 produces a more natural sound, but I also think that putting 26 or such attains a positive effect on certain music.

Thanks for the many replies.

I did some tests and unfortunately i cannot use quad upsampling at the moment due to 96k Console limitation. Besides, cpu % for the crossovers basically doubles from 20 to 40% going to 88.2k. I'm looking for a different PEQ to do the job (I will evaluate Algorytmix).

Still, I noticed is that the 88.2k arc-prediction upsampled sound is even more revealing of source material defects and DAC limitations, to the point that some commercial stuff is disgusting.

Test been done in attended. Unattended has to wait for tomorrow if i get the time (being rather busy with work).


A suggestion: marker for the upsampling, i.e. 4x, 2x, etc?
Also, do you plan to remove the other kinds of upsampling?

Hey Peter, another cymbal lover :D

I'm probably dumb, but having used XXHE mostly in Attended mode, I dont really know how to control it in unattended.

So, what I'm asking is a list of commands to do the most basic things, i.e.
-stop/play
-pause
-next track

and how to bring back the program interface, and then to send it into oblivion again.

Thanks in advance to anyone who will reply. I plan to do some serious A/B comparisons with Arc predition on

I quickly checked both 26/26 and 20/20 with Arc prediction 4x upsampling inserted and I prefer the 0/0/0/0 still.
Headphone test, will check tomorrow in the real system.

Arc Predicion 2x and especially 4x brings a significant SQ improvement. The goosebump effect is undeniable.
And I'm at headphones yet for today.

Tomorrow plain/4x arc -attended vs unattended.

After a quick check with q1/2 at 20/20 i think i still prefer those at 0, sounds more realistic to me (in headphones).