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121  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Using filters with hires files... at their native rates on: March 25, 2018, 02:20:34 pm
Peter, I would have expected a 24/176.4 file being played back at its native rate to sound the identical, irrespective of which filter was selected in XX. But this does not seem to be the case.

Is there something I'm not appreciating about how the filters in XX work?

Mani.

PS. Will try 2.10 after Mansr's visit here tomorrow (don't want to risk screwing anything up beforehand).
122  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: MQA decoding stopped working on: February 10, 2018, 05:27:14 pm
Haha, that was exactly my first thought, hence why I jumped the gun and began typing.

But all remains well with MQA... for now...

Mani.
123  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: MQA decoding stopped working on: February 09, 2018, 10:14:12 pm
Sorry, false alarm...

Mani.
124  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / MQA decoding stopped working on: February 09, 2018, 10:02:24 pm
I can no longer use MQA decoding in XX. MQA files that I've been playing for weeks no longer play decoded. If I switch MQA decoding off, everything is fine.

I got a couple of errors saying something like 'missing header' or 'header error' - unfortunately, I didn't capture them at the time and can't recreate them now.

The error messages no longer appear, and XX seems to be playing normally (in Unattended and Attended), but there's no sound. Nada. In Attended, even the counter works and everything looks OK, but no sound. As soon as I disable MQA decoding, everything works as expected.

Anyone else with a similar issue?

Mani
125  Ultimate Audio Playback / Interesting Music / Testmaterial / Re: Best / Interesting Albums of 2017 on: January 20, 2018, 06:32:12 pm
Just one recommendation:-
"Patricia Barber - A Distortion of Love"
Not new but only just available in MQA. Sound quality is up there with the best.


I can't believe this is from 1992. ADCs from that era are supposed to be cr*p, but not according to this (assuming it's a digital recording). I'm listening to the MQA version, which appears to be from a 2012 master - ever so slightly brighter and more forward than I would like, but bloody nice sound nevertheless.

Mani.
126  Ultimate Audio Playback / Interesting Music / Testmaterial / Re: Best / Interesting Albums of 2017 on: January 20, 2018, 06:27:28 pm
And I am currently seeing a young(relative to my 54 yrs.)singer/songwriter, who is super talented and I hope to be able to make a “check out this artist” here in the future!


Hey Todd, glad to hear your life is going in a good direction. Look forward to the "check out this artist" at some point.

Mani.
127  Ultimate Audio Playback / Interesting Music / Testmaterial / Re: Best / Interesting Albums of 2017 on: January 20, 2018, 06:25:30 pm
So rather than post about hi-fi technicalities for a change I thought I would list a few albums I liked from 2017.


Thanks Paul - much appreciated.

Mani.
128  Ultimate Audio Playback / Chatter and forum related stuff / Streaming vs. Local on: January 09, 2018, 11:27:27 am
As some of you might know, I tend to use Roon/HQPlayer alongside XXHighEnd from time to time. It provides a different user experience, and my wife and boys enjoy listening to their playlists on my main system.

I was streaming some contemporary jazz through Roon/HQPlayer and liked its particularly lively sound. I prepare the stream with XX and took a listen (still with Roon/HQPlayer) to the prepared stream, which now sat on my local music server. Wow, what a difference in sound!

I'm not suggesting that one playback method necessarily sounds better than the other, only that they sound quite different. Streaming gives a much more lively and dynamic sound (a bit like low SFS), whereas playing the files locally gives a more harmonically rich and mellow sound.

I suppose streaming vs. local playback using Roon/HQPlayer is analogous to playing around with playback settings in XX. Only, we can control the sound in the latter Wink

Mani.
129  Ultimate Audio Playback / Your thoughts about the Sound Quality / Re: 2.09 sound quality on: January 09, 2018, 10:21:06 am
I've settled on the following:

non-MQA: Custom Low
MQA: Arc Prediction

If I forget to change to AP with MQA, I realise within a few seconds of the music playing that something sounds 'off'.

Mani.
130  Ultimate Audio Playback / Chatter and forum related stuff / Re: Where is my signature? on: December 27, 2017, 12:09:29 pm
OK, I'll wait until you say everything is working properly.

No inconvenience on my part  no

Mani.
131  Ultimate Audio Playback / Chatter and forum related stuff / Re: Where is my signature? on: December 27, 2017, 12:03:27 pm
It's back - thanks Peter. So, will changes stick after 'change profile'? Is it OK for me to try?

Mani.
132  Ultimate Audio Playback / Chatter and forum related stuff / Re: Where is my signature? on: December 27, 2017, 12:00:19 pm
I've tried re-entering it. It gets wiped as soon as I press 'change profile'.

(Don't worry if you can't recover it - I'll just re-enter it.)

Mani.
133  Ultimate Audio Playback / Chatter and forum related stuff / Re: Where is my signature? on: December 27, 2017, 11:50:09 am
Oops. I just updated my signature and it's disappeared altogether.

Mani.
134  Ultimate Audio Playback / Orelino / Orelo MKII Loudspeakers / Re: Sneak Preview of New Orelos on: December 27, 2017, 11:43:22 am
Ramesh, your Orelos look stunning. And it's great to hear that you're happy with their sound. Nick has my 'old' Orelos and, after a lot of tweaking', is very pleased with them too (which is a massive relief for me).

There's no doubt that they're right up there with the best speakers available at any price. I'm even more convinced of this since my attendance at the Munich High End show earlier this year.

Mani.
135  Ultimate Audio Playback / Chatter and forum related stuff / Re: Happy Christmas everybody ! on: December 25, 2017, 10:16:35 am
PS: Ruben, this thing is spinning and spinning. What can we best do to stop it ?


Peter, obviously Ruben is a bit busy right now, but he's taken a cursory look at the situation and recommends 2 possible solutions:

1. close all windows and doors to make sure no wind is coming into your house (totally on his own)

2. move the lit candles away from under the fan (with a very little help from me)

Unfortunately he'll have no more time today to sort any other problems out - the new Nintendo Switch comes first!


Merry Christmas!!!

Mani.
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