Absolute Polarity is about changing phase exactly 180 degrees i.e. instead of the woofer going out to a positive voltage, it draws in.  Same as swapping the speaker leads at one end.  It is to do with whether polarity has been maintained during recording and mastering.  I find a lot of ripped cd's sound better with polarity inverted...

Peter, regarding phase, I have no idea how a USB cable can improve things, but on my system phase is very audible...afterall my speakers are an exercise in phase coherence. 

Absolute polarity is also highly audible to the extent that I find it necessary to be able to switch polarity at the preamp via the remote control...it matters.  What I am alluding to is that as your system now seems more phase coherent...not saying it was not so before, but your comments seem to indicate that something has changed...that you may also find that absolute polarity also matters and that perhaps you may need a way to be able to change it, perhaps from XXHE.

Anthony

Hi Robert,

Peter has my order for the MachIII...just waiting on the 20/40 core cpu, if it ever becomes available in the EU.  I can get it here in Aus, it is readily available in the US, but not so much in the EU apparently.

Cheers,

Anthony

EDIT:  It was more that my new USB cable was obsolete by the time it arrived...sad when that happens...but I did sit on my hands for a long time.

Probably...

sh*t Mani, after all this time I finally got my Lush^2 on Wednesday...now there is a ^3 out there??  What the!

Mani,

Interesting to hear your impressions.  The Taiko Extreme is a seriously priced piece of kit.  Were you trialling to see if you could find something better than the Mach III or was your interest more in the Roon/DSP side of things?  I fear that if I want to do Roon that I will have to get a second (non-Phasure) dac which I am reluctant to do, but sometimes I want something that is just quick and easy with Tidal but still sounds good.

I don't even have the Mach III yet...am waiting for Peter to source the 20/40 core cpus (hurry up Peter!)

Anthony

No problems here to install on MusicServer and AudioPC, both done remotely through RDC from the tablet.  Before you install on the AudioPC, make sure that you are booting from BASE  (not RAM) with the OS un-minimised.  Do the installation, run 2.11, minimise the OS, reboot from RAM...job done.

Not new music by any means...very much high school memories for me but at least on the face of things right for these times..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyF8RHM1OCg

Hi Mani,

Oh, yes, I'm just as busy as ever, doing the same stuff as usual, just with social distancing and a lot of hand-washing inolved.  My business is in agriculture and unless everyone is able to stop eating food production will need to roll on.  Luckily I already work from home and when in the field do not need help to do what I do, and I have several months of design work in the office to catch up on if my travel is stopped.

I remember talking with Peter several years ago about the remoteness of Australia once you get away from the coast.  Where quite a bit of my work is in a local goverment (shire) that is about the same size as the entire Netherlands...but with a population of 5,000, not 18,000,000.  Pretty easy to isolate out there if people take things seriously, which from what I have seen they mostly are.

Saying that, the virus does not seem as advanced here as in the UK and elsewhere, and my kids are both still at school although they do now have online learning/lessons available to them.

Not the right way to think about it, but I would love a couple of weeks to be able to concentrate on my audio projects...

How about you Mani?  I take it you are unable to work. 

Anthony

I did not know this Peter, but interesting to know.  If only I had time to experiment...

hehehe...

Mani, I think I read somewhere that Peter has one.  Might have been of AS ...not sure.  The man himself of course can confirm or deny.

Anthony

I must be missing something Peter...I still don't know how to remove the scrollbars.


I set the tablet and the MusicServer to 200% and XXHE reverted to "rogue" behaviour.  Looks like I will have to change the tablet display parameters depending on how it is being used.  XXHE = 100%.  Normal browsing/work = 200%.

Peter,

I like my RDP to start in a maximised window, but I see you do not do that.  My screen resolution is 2736 x 1854.

It seems as though the problem is linked to the screen resolution on the tablet.  The recommended w10 text size for the Surface 6 Pro screen is 200%, not 100% as you recommend.  When I set it to 100% XXHE seems to work just fine and scales properly when it restarts after playing some music.  But now things are too small on the tablet and they are near impossible to read...think 2736 pixels in about 10" or screen, 300ppi or thereabouts...9pt text displays at about 4pt.  XXHE is fine, I just scaled it up, but normal everyday (not XXHE) stuff on the tablet is very small, such as the icons, text etc.

Is there a work-around for this?  Maybe in 2.11?

By the way, getting the screen right in XXHE makes me realise what I have been missing.

Regarding the scroll bars, is there a reason to get rid of them?  Are they removed by precise sizing of the XXHE window?  I'll look it up.


Anthony

Hi Peter,

Hopefully this is a simple one to fix.  Before I press play the screen of my tablet which is RDC'd into the MusicServer looks like Before.jpg, after playing and return to XXHE GUI it looks like After.jpg, which is obviously different, then if I exit XXHE and then restart it, it looks like After Restart.jpg.  All three are different.

Sorry, but I cannot figure out how to insert images into the text, so you will need to look at the attachments.

The problem started when my long suffering iPad was replaced with a SurfacePro with a much higher screen resolution.

Cheers,

Anthony