From your DAC, this text can be read :

Works in USB Adaptive mode. For a asynchronous alternative, look here
(click that link).

So maybe yours is too cheap after all ?

N.b.: I don't think I recognize a situation that just nothing happens until that message appears (didn't start in time) so it has to be something really odd ?

Peter

Okayyy …

Well, warm welcome, also with your username. Maybe you also have a name to address you with. Of course we can't address you with that nick, right ? feels wrong.
hahaha

So, WASAPI normally works, right ?
(just to keep the conversation going)

Peter

Hi Nick,

Nice that you tried. But yes, if I interpret you well, you really respond to it like I did the first time listening to it. The spellbound thing would indeed be what I dedicate it at listening that second time.

It is as if the resolution doubles without being annoying. A gland "stream" of highs (showing a mere hiss sound) turns into the individual fast on/off sounds and because this is different in the left channel from the right, the sound gets very spacious and holographic. Already the fact that left is different from right in this aspect, adds a dimension.

Something else, which not often is a subject, is how tracks like these can survive their length. So for this type of music, always the same (what about Autobahn, right ?) it is do or die for the nuances. I have something like : we MUST know at all times that no artist makes something really A-B repeating throughout 15 minutes of track. There has to be a build up or else each measure should be slightly different from the previous. Well, if that can't be perceived, you miss out.
This is such an example. It is in there and only theoretically you know there should be more in it. But you surely are not going to try to squeeze out more if you don't know for 100% sure there has to be more in it. But for me it *is* a kind of measure whether all is OK with the system.

This latter surely plays a role when I play something I put to my Demo Gallery ever back, and today I perceive it as way too long and always the same from the start. I definitely know myself of not putting such a track to my Demo Gallery. Still it is in there. So what changed since …
A cable ? the Lush^2 configuration ? Something in the software ? a software setting which improved something when I applied it, but was detrimental to other matters ? (and with the uncomfortable knowing that it went for the worse)

It also goes the other way around, but this is more difficult to catch : An album like this does not go to Nice Stuff and no track ends up in Demo (it does not even survive track 03). Will it get an other chance ? No, probably not. Unless an other album of the same artist makes it to Nice Stuff etc. so I might revisit others too, later.
Btw in this case, might you be interested, I obtained it from Tidal because of this one with 5 out of 9 tracks in my Demo Gallery (which really is many, for percentage) :
https://listen.tidal.com/album/38757515
https://listen.tidal.com/album/38756661 (bonus EP)
If all is right you like this much better from the start.

Peter

Am I not always full of strong statements ?

Last night went a bit different than what I expected of it.

The day before I had been playing fairly daft electronic music. Now mind you, electronic music as such is about the farthest from what I like. On a side note, you must know what it is first. This is not Vangelis or Klaus Schulze, no, it is (in my view) the most stupid computer fabriqued repetitive (not)music, most often from German origin (think Kraftwerk and you know the direction). Some times such an album ends up in my playlist because I tend to try a lot which looks to be OK from a distance.

Track titles speak (of nothing) and the Cover … could attract me. Track lengths look dangerous(ly way too long to remain of interest throughout).
And so I found my XXHighEnd at track 03, yesterday. Not completely ignorantly I pressed Play on it again, because I was prepared for my tweak (which I, btw, only know for a week or so, and which requires preparation which I forget half of the time - forgot it last night as well).

I didn't know what I was hearing.
From a stupid nothing it had turned into an enormously interesting sounds and soundscapes all over from left to right and in to out and what not. And it occurred to me that even that 14 minute track seems to have passed by in 5 minutes. It went straight into my "Nice Stuff" Gallery for any next time - being sure that this next time I will wonder what happened to me putting it in there. Btw, I recall that the one but last track was nothing much after all; the first two tracks I never played last night, so skip those for safety. Anyway, this album, so you can try it for yourself :

https://listen.tidal.com/album/39109162

I bet you all that you'll regard this the biggest nonsense ever. Or close to it. But not last night over here ...

Haha, were we faster than light there or weren't we ?
Thank YOU.

Regards,
Peter

Hey Nick,



Right. This is exactly what I was referring to (or tried to) - that it requires different settings elsewhere, which such a thing is in order (or seems to be in order). Of course I could try to reverse the clock speed into some negative cycle, but then I better work on the perpetuum mobile first.
Anyway, envision :

This heating up is done on purpose and it creates a stable environment because eventually saturated. Now adjust the environmental parts to it … (which can just as well be a USB cable configuration - anything).

And oh, to be 100% clear : I don't think I like the sound such a tweak creates, myself. But therefore it now is about finding that other tweak. So our approach is different, the solution is therefore different as well, but the thinking is the same. Well, as usual.

Best regards,
Peter

Btw, I seriously hope that you are using the Touch Facilities, so the On Screen Keyboard appears (fully automatically) …

And when you position that "intelligently" there is really really nothing to be annoyed about. I use it all the time.

Btw, below you see the W7 version of the keyboard.

If you only realize that no Search button is required to look for Led Zeppelin. And typing ZEPP really is enough. That even adds Dread Zeppelin, which only is better.

Hi there,

There is no real optimized length that I / we know of. It is only that we know from the original Lush that 3m could be problematic. I don't recall any Lush^2 of 3m going out ever.


If you need .5m / 50cm then it will be 70cm what you should obtain (it is either 40cm or 70cm or longer). And please don't "squeeze" things into a virtual 40cm while you already need 50cm because the 40cm Lush^2 is not easily bendable when it is already too short.


No worries because the Lush^2 comes preconfigured with the setting (as it seems without exception) everybody likes best. So you don't need to do anything. However, you *can* do it when for example someone else comes up with a best new setting. And as you may have read on the Net, some times that happens. Usually it doesn't last for more than a couple of weeks (you'll go back to the initial setting) but at least you can "be there" and try too. Or eventually try out things for yourself / on your own. And next report that *you* found a better configuration.


Don't forget to test the Lush^2 also at the position of the USPCB. It is quite common sense that this will be for the better. Of course this is up to you, and I only mention it because it seems counter-intuitive (how can a cable sound better than an adapter).

Regards,
Peter

Well, at least Shazam allows some talking in the mean time. But this is the other way around, right ?

If you promise to play Led Zeppelin at low volume, it could work.

haha

Hey Nick - Not sure whether I comprehend all of that, but I feel the gist and may be able to find out myself blindly
… by now.

You will discover a new SQ feature in 2.11 which looks mighty much similar to what you describe, with the difference that I know what it is doing internally in the program. I still would not be able to reason any culprit or explicit "feature" as such, but it is controllable and looks to have the same behavior as your finding as of now.
In my case the sound changes so drastically that it factually requires different settings elsewhere (like a new PC or new DAC - to name something - LOL).

You will see …

Meanwhile I will try to absorb what you laid out. Maybe it can be automated. And let's agree that it can't become more mad if these matters help consistently. 

PS: You are mad as well; how else could you find out.

Regards,
Peter

Hi there Maxi,

No need to be guilty at all. I clearly can use a little pressure. And really, better than nobody saying anything.

Kind regards,
Peter

I'd say it would be the most crucial feature ever, assumed you use Galleries in the first place. It is really a new way of working …

OK, so I guess I must start finalizing. 

Below you see the last couple of lines of the ToDo (lines marked with * still to do). You can also see that this can be expanded infinitely (just wait more days). Btw, 174 subjects in there this time, so far.

Peter

Ha !


Can you help me out here … What exactly now works ?
Or is this about the "W10" support that it started working ?

Also, what is the lowest SFS that you roughly know of that still works OK ? (no need to re-test as "roughly" is indeed sufficient for me).

Peter

Haha

The longer I'm staring at the task of making Release Notes, the more I can see I can add. Next this requires a larger task of Release Notes, so I better think of adding something first.
Postponing Postponing.

It would be true that all Internet connections will cease to exist in the UK after Brexit. But that's their own fault in world's foolish act ever.

Peter