Hi Peter,

What are you doing to Frank, he gets a long beard!

(Sound is still wonderfull, very spacious!!, only the false starts you mentioned I get now with every song )

The problem with the blue screen and core appointment set to 1 or 3 only happened now when I turn XXHE off.
It mentioned something like USBAUDIO.SYS OR DLL (lost the note) ... and yesterday atiport.sys

One question for the SSD-users, what kind of powercleaning are you using?
To me it sounds like the SSD gives some more electronic garbage back to the powersupplies.
I guess a spinning harddiskengine is more harmless in this way, different frequencies and such..
Maybe some powercleaning here and there could help or not?

In one word, perfect!
Thanks for this wonderfull christmas present.
The bass sounds very natural, the mids and highs are no more electronic hash-like, female voice is very enjoiable again.
Almost sounding analog
I was thinking of building a buffalo too, but now I can wait a little more..
Of course only one hour of listening but this is very obvious in my system with my old rusty ears.

Thanks, and happy christmas.

Beto,

That's good to hear!
I think the DS2H sounds better but with all the changes happening here I try to be cautious in my judgment.
Now I am very curious what core appointment you are using?

Maybe it's time to upgrade to a phenom. But I like the low wattage of the 4850e, it works with a passive cooler, I'm afraid a phenom needs a fan.
And I hate the noise my old XP-pc is making. (5 fans to keep the pentium-D below 80 degrees)

For now I'm listening with no core appointment, like before.
Fairport Convention, lot of detail but Sandy Dennie's voice sounds a bit thin now.

Hi beto,

It is a ma78gpm-ds2h and replaces a ma78gm-s2h. That one did not start up anymore, this happens a lot to this board according to the fora.
The new one works perfect (until now..) for everything but XXHE.
If a MB can improve the sound maybe it is interesting to find out which ones are recommendable.
Seems AMD can have a problem, or are other people playing happily with AMD?
And I did not tweak it to death, so maybe it is some process not running for everybody that interferes with XX.

Which powersupply is recommendable, soundqualitywise..?

The music froze while I was almost finished typing so I had to delete a big part.
This was v7. I had to restart and even the bios was automatically reset from the backup-bios.

It was a new mp3-musicalbum I never played before.
So now I'm trying a flac-album, after 9 songs with apointment 1, unattended, nothing else ticked, the music stopped and the screen comes up, so I start song 10 and it sounds distorted (recognizable, but unlistenable, like an fm-radio picking up static from an engine).
So pause again and play, now it can not find unicode_track0001(?).wav and vista shuts xxhe down. Restart and start song 10 (now with apointment 3) and everything looks ok again.

The album I'm playing now is quite long with separate flac-songs.
It sounds wonderfull.
BTW the replacement MB has better mosfets, chokes and capacitors. Any Idea this will make it sound better?

Update: 4 more songs in apointment 3 and stops, restart ok, one song more: reboot.
On reboot DMI-table gets updated...

Again XXHE started says: length can not be less then zero, parameter:length.
Then restart: xxdat0002.dao is in use by other program, ignored and plays again 1 song. (but now no apointment)
After that the XXHE-window comes up again. Play one song, stops. Another song, now the next one starts by itself, but distorted.
pause, play,ok.stop,play etc.

Hope this helps!

Hi Peter,

Better put your W-version in the scr*pyard!

I installed the new MB, everything working OK. XXHE playing in W3, changed to appointment 3, saved it and restarted XXHE: Blue screen and reboot.
Installed v7 over w3 and no problemo. Appointment 3 is playing now and yes, v7 sounds beautifull.
Only problem left is sometimes a song starts distorted and I have to press pause and play to make it sound normal again.

Also in W3 the songtitel in the wallpaper said : unicode track0001, and playing mp3 showed a lot of disk-activity in between songs, but was not finished before the song started...

Noooo, music stopped and pc frozen....
To be continued.

No overclocking, no, maybe underclocking in the future!

I forgot to tell that the crash happens after a couple of minutes, 3-4,  so maybe some other proces tries to use the cpu and gets upset?
Even the music kept playing, until I hit the keyboard.
The CPU does not do much so I guess it is not overstressed, I even have a passive cooler on it. With heavy 1080i no problems.
I just bought a heavier version of the same MB today so maybe tomorrow I know more.
Hope it is not the CPU.
BTW does a quadcore sound better/worse then dualcore, in theory and or in practice?

No, of course not.

I already have a lot of scr*p in the scr*pyard, and this one is still in garantee.

Only scared to try the experiment again, any idea what happens?
Maybe other members with AMD have the same problem?
I hope to fix it today and of course I'll try it at least once....

That's the only one I tried.
(Yes, Dual core)
Now I can not test it anymore, looks like the MB is dead.
No beeps at startup, happens more to Gigabyte boards...

In unattended mode the computer stops and after a long while restarts.
In attended mode the xxhe-window disappears and I get a (Vista) message that the program stopped and I can say OK to end the program or
do a diagnosis, if I remember correctly.
Then I touched the keyboard and pc stops.

Good to know that you will fix it, (if not already fixed).. and I am also wowed to know that with core appointment I can reach a higher level in sound quality.. wow, I thought the way it is sounded good, now you have got me interested.. Uhmm...

Somehow I was playing with no appointment for some time, changed it to appointment 3 and the pc halts and restarts.
It is repeatable, maybe because I use a AMD cpu? (same with 9w-2 and 9w-3)

I think it was a change in bitrate of mp3's but have to check more later.

Aha, bigger fonts for old people!

It is a flac file with the complete album, it comes with a cue-file.
The songs on top are from the previous album but I forgot to clear it.

I'll try to be more specific when it happens again, but it looked to happen with everything that got started, xxhighend. exe, xxhighend3.exe, wallpaper etc..
It happened after installing version v6, now listening and no problems, so I want to enjoy this before I start to mess up again.

BTW, WMA-files are not supported?? What is the way to go with them, maybe a good conversion tool?

Maybe connected to before..?
When playing mp3's and wavs in one folder after a while I get 'format change not allowed' and 'engine 3 did not start in time'. The change was from mp3 to wav, but this change happened a couple of times before and then it gave no problem... When I stop and start with the next ( = changed) song it sounds distorted, so I stop and start again and then it is in double speed..