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on: December 09, 2007, 02:10:18 pm
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I am talking about the e.g. XR-55. Just run digital-in - analog-in sucks. I was told that e.g. running 3 of them in a multichannel setup ( fired by 3 digital outs e.g. RME) were performing better than the TACTS these guys used to run before. I had a chance to listen to a full digital chain from Uli Brüggemann. (TACTS and RME card actively phase linear filtererd on the PC). This I would call agressive.  I never heard better and more "shockingly" transient response before caused by the linear filters and the PCM2PWM conversion. With HDMI you need to be careful though, you need to check if it supports Multichannel-PCM properly - Stereo is not an issue. I am digging into it by myself right now. I decided to give up on HDMI and multichannel bit-perfect audio. I dont need such high quality for movies  Virtual dolby would work good enough, really. BTW the newer TDAI is better than all TACT. If they were running the millenium mk2 or mk3, then it's another matter. |
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Ultimate Audio Playback / Music Storage and convenient playback / Touch screen LCD cases and XXHE
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on: December 09, 2007, 02:03:07 pm
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I finally decided which case to get for my HTPC and I decided to go with a model with lcd touchscreen to browse my music library easily without turning the tv on.
Now my question is, will XXHE work fine in such way?
Looks need some improvement, i hope some skin and a fullscreen mode. Album or artist selection would be my favourite.
Good examples are MediaPortal (my favourite), Vista MCE (for music only) and Jriver.
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Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: Want a good laugh ?
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on: December 03, 2007, 04:01:33 pm
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Peter,
I have Vista fresh on my pc right now. But the spooler error apears every 10 min..... Before the reinstall in did not have that...
General good advice: install windows offline (network cable unplugged) Then install a good antivirus (nod32 or kaspersky 7) Then plug the cable and do all updates (antivirus first) I have installed vista x32 and x64 on my computers several times and never had this spool error. I have had other errors and in general doing all windows updates and NOT installing cr*ppy codecs fix everything. |
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Ultimate Audio Playback / Your questions about the PC -> DAC route / Re: Choosing a DAC
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on: November 24, 2007, 09:11:02 pm
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Fact is that I recognize the problems software concerned (e.g. Cubase) have, which they so far can't even solve. This is one of the reasons I introduced the other appointment schemes, and mind you ... they do sound (very) different (so what) but could easily lock out processes on a Quad Core (I tried to explain earlier that with a 2 core this is no problem, for no one).
Did you try XX on a dual core and on a quad, Peter? If so did you notice any difference in sound? Besides, other programs messing with threads & cores, in Vista, there shouldn't be. |
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Ultimate Audio Playback / Your questions about the PC -> DAC route / Re: Choosing a DAC
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on: November 20, 2007, 09:56:26 pm
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I have a Q processor running here which does not have the slightest problem with the XX. I admit I had some doubt once I had funny clicks and distortion phenomenons occouring, but that came from the FireWire chain having a HW error.
Hi Gerner, I did my homework and I'm pretty sure that the issues are only in XP, which does NOT support more than two processors and that cause the jimp from one core to the other that Peater described. I cannot remember having problems with XP with my dual xeon system, because I used XP for no more than one week and then switched to 2003 server If you guys see the prices at which the new 45nm quad cores will be sold in january wouldn't think to buy a dual core for a multimedia pc anymore  |
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Ultimate Audio Playback / Your questions about the PC -> DAC route / Re: Choosing a DAC
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on: November 20, 2007, 01:56:09 am
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That's all happening already (and more) ...
:D Well, I can say this. Today I finally managed to remove the upsampling from my soundcard on the test computer from 48khz to 44.1, thorugh its control panel. I still cannot use exclusive mode or assigning cpu "priority" (demo mode), but, I felt a SQ improvement vs asio playback (I use either MediaPortal or foobar 0.9.5beta3). This on terratec dmx6 fire (internal) and decent tannoy active monitors. I'm sure XX is the way to go for my HTPC when it'll be ready. I will go to audition the Bel Canto DAC and I will bring a (recent) notebook with XP which is a friend's who's a musician (with bad ears, so he says ). Would use XX with XP and in demo mode still attain a better SQ than foobar with ASIO? I will play wavs of carefully (EAC) ripped tracks of my reference CDs. |
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Ultimate Audio Playback / Your questions about the PC -> DAC route / Re: Choosing a DAC
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on: November 19, 2007, 05:29:12 pm
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Incurring for (core) switching, is very different from appointing.
My HTPC (for movies) has a HT processor, HT completely (HAL level) eliminated. It works better (for stuttering). Note that the particular softare does not appoint, but spread.
Since I appoint myself in XX, I know how easy it is to do just that for 2 cores, and how impossible it is to do that with 4. So I can dedicate "my" sofware t a core of "mine", but I can't decide for the unknown with 4 cores. I can though with 2. "All of you go to #1 ! excpect for me".
I'm not a software engineer, so I will speak in layman terms. I agree that HT is mostly gimmicks, but sometimes programs see it as a second processor. Back to the important stuff, does right now XX "dedicate" to core0 or core1? I would go for the second that is generally less used by windows. Then, I'm not sure if it is possible, but what about a simple command line to set the affinity of a thread (XX) to a given core(s) like I can manually do through the task manager? |
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