Peter, get an intel SSD.

Anybody heard it?

If just for firewire pass-through is the first unit with an affordable (300€) pricetag and full 24/192k.

Agreed.

I think in the future the way to go is to use the computer for EQ purposes
And the good part is that there are free programs that do that.

An external clock shouldnt be needed. If done well (really well) the DAC has to be the master clock.


A NOS design like this (Peter correct me if I'm wrong) does not change the sampling rate, whichever you put in, that will be out. It is filterless. The beauty of peter creation is that it can accept 48, 88.2, 96,176,4 and up to 192k. Just to cite all available sampling rates


No, they are cr*p, they ruin the signal and add jitter, to avoid like all digital filters.

Read all this article:
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/intel/showdoc.aspx?i=3403&p=7

There is some discussion on various hw forums, my favourite is xtreme systems. No thread that i know talks about audio performance.
But the latency issue IS an issue, due to intel ich and the jmicron controller of the majority of MLC SSD drives.
I dont think you can get a refund, but I hope u try soon a different SSD drive and post an update.

IIRC the IDE port is NOT part of intel ICH from ich7.

BTW there ARE serious problems with MLC SSD units (all but Intel) with intel controllers, so serious that you may have 1-3s pauses of everything, including music. You dont have such because you minimized services and cpu/disk usage.
So, you have a problem. The solution is not cheap, either way. Get a MLC disk, get an Intel MLC disk, or get an Areca sata raid card.

SeVeRed, do you have the same type of SSD?
I do THINK to agree with Gordon that SSD SHOULD be better for a music pc...

Besides, Windows7 will improve SSD speed and functionalities and may be good for sound too. A Beta2 or perhaps RC0 will be worth to try.

I dont think so. On the contrary you may have drivers issue with 64 bit.
So, unless you need >3gb of memory for video apps, go with 32 bit.

A good firewire card with Ti chipset costs 50-60 euros. The cheap one probably wont change much vs the motherboard controller.

Get the ESI firewire, its cheap. 96khz is the only limit, but if thats fine for you, that gets my vote.

Besides the network fix (which was longtime due!) I didnt notice any improvement on my two systems. The lower-end was updated 3 weeks ago when the sp1 was not on windowsupdate yet. The higher end machine today, but it's 64 bit so no xx for it.

That BSOD can be caused by almost anything. But because my machine is rock solid, the only cause is the audio. Either terratec driver, or the handing of the pci use by the mainboard or something in the latest version of xxhe.

The SP1 did not fix the BSOD.

BTW, the program hangs up (not responding) when i click on the library tab and then to another one.

OK i cancelled the SP install and i'm gonna try playing a wav, with dac set at 32/96.
BSOD again.

I'm gonn ainstall the SP1, i dont see other solutions.

I'm not sure to understand: do you want me to put 32 bit/something in the dac properties and try again to play something?
I decided to go ahead and i'm installing SP1 right now.

Yes, vista x32 no SP.

I googled and found these:
http://www.osronline.com/ddkx/stream/pcdesign_9y1z.htm

Could be related to the mainboard (which bios i cannot update), to nvidia graphics drivers (unlikely), to terratec drivers (most likely), or to something you changed in xxhe between u0 and u1.