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Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: NOS1a (v1.0.4b) : Fifo errors
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on: January 27, 2016, 09:23:31 am
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Anthony, good that you mentioned it because I wasn't (email) notified of it.
One more to arrive, as far as I can see and it is Canadian.
Regards,
Peter
Canadian, crikey! My package went through the US to get to me in Australia...surely Canada would be onto it, but I suppose there may be a bit of snow that way delaying things. |
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Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: NOS1a (v1.0.4b) : Fifo errors
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on: January 27, 2016, 06:45:18 am
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The RAM-OS disk turned up today along with two Clairixa USB cables. Followed the tutorial, plugged everything in, everything worked first time. I have isolated Silverstone > short Clairixa > Intona > longer Clairixa > NOS1 and all seems quite good.
Interestingly, this is the first time that I have ever successfully had coverart working, which is nice, and I never set a thing, I just went with Peters settings in the RAM-OS 10586.
Good stuff!
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Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: NOS1a (v1.0.4b) : Fifo errors
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on: January 24, 2016, 10:54:07 pm
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Another question: Do all NOS1a users with silverstone card problems have connected the power via molex plug?
Georg
My memory is that the molex supplies 5V to the usb port, so you will need it connected if you want to handshake the NOS1 or Intona. That is what I remember anyway, I might be wrong. Anthony |
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Ultimate Audio Playback / Playback Tweaks and Source related subjects / Re: Intona High Speed USB 2.0 galvanic isolation
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on: January 07, 2016, 11:03:45 am
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Put the Intona into the system today...nice sound, probably better than what I had before but I have barely used the system over the summer holidays so don't really have a good reference...will know in a couple of days time.
Anyway, I run my Silverstone USB card from two LPS: one for the 5V that goes down the USB cable and one to run the card itself (it does not draw power from the PCIe slot. There must be something going on inside the Intona because it is now pulling 0.23A from one of the LPS whereas before the draw was negligible. I have not read the blurb for the Intona but it must require a base load to do what it does...interesting.
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Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: Output Device keeps changing
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on: December 15, 2015, 09:33:45 am
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I had this device constantly changing problem on my first install of w10074. I think that the problem was caused then because I installed the DAC driver (nos1) before I installed XXHE. When I did install XXHE the problem did not go away and I realised (thanks to Peter) that I had not set the "Require driver signing" checkbox in settings so that the driver did not require signing. As far as I could tell the only solution for me was a new os installation, then install XXHE then install the nos1 driver. It worked anyway.
Not sure if this is exactly the same problem given different dacs, but perhaps the answer is to uninstall the DAC driver totally (perhaps including registry and other hidden settings), set that button in XXHE and then reinstall the DAC driver. Might be worth a shot.
Anthony
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Ultimate Audio Playback / Your thoughts about the Sound Quality / Re: Ohhhhhhhhh
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on: December 15, 2015, 07:22:48 am
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If Anthony reads this :
Anthony, I know that you have been testing the influence on drivers getting warm and impedance changing. But do you also know how long it takes to undo the effect - IOW how long does it take for all to get completely "cold" again ?
I don't really know the answer, because I have never bothered to measure the cool down, but because the warming is a physical process, once the stimulus is removed the length of time to cool depends on how effectively the voice coil and magnet are able to dissipate the heat inside the speaker enclosure. I would say minutes, perhaps 30 depending on ambient temperature to cool down. Saying this all though, I now find it quite easy to tell when a driver warms up too much...the tell tale signs are pretty easy to pick up, and at its worst it sounds like packets being lost in the NOS1a when the SFS is set too low. That is one of the reasons why I like horns so much...low excursion = less heat = speakers that sound the same all day long. |
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Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: 10074 and the Music Root
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on: December 11, 2015, 06:32:40 am
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If you, for fun, look into your X3 log file, you can see the repetetive procedure each 0.024 seconds. Do you know how SHORT that is ? Normally that wouldn't even allow to write that log data within that period of time, continuously. Meaning : already for that I don't trust what's happening, no matter you, obviously, will say that it was exactly the same as without the logging.
Show me similar with an SFS of 2 or higher and I won't blame your system. Is that OK with you ?
Hi Peter, I re-played that MJ album today and logged the results (see attached file). Note that with SFS=2 the entire album played through and XXHE started up again at the end of it. Regards, Anthony |
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Ultimate Audio Playback / Your thoughts about the Sound Quality / Re: Ohhhhhhhhh
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on: December 08, 2015, 11:57:50 am
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Now what sall I do ? Reboot to find out, or let it be as long as it lasts so I can enjoy the best sound by very far EVER ?
That computer can't run forever Peter...and the worry about when it is going to stop or for how long it is going to sound great is probably worse than not having that "best sound"...at least you have an idea of how you got there and can try to replicate it. Reboot I say. Regards, Anthony |
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Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: 10074 and the Music Root
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on: December 07, 2015, 01:55:16 pm
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Ok, "looking forward" - haha Maybe you recall that the other day I responded to someone about HiRes and what happens after I played such an album (or a couple of tracks of it) - always at the limits of course  ... After that my PC is out of order for maybe over a minute (not responsive). So, in my case it is able to do all for Playback, but I guess things stack up so much that when playback stops it needs to catch breath for a while. Understand ? So I was thinking about a new track, implying catching breath and now that taking priority, perhaps. Now I don't hear you say that problem albums are always HiRes, but to be honest I can play them unnoticed (or a few tracks) because they're in my Demo Gallery etc. and I just select a few nice pictures, so to speak. But *if* you can recognize it's always about Hires ... don't hesitate to admit it.  One other thing : I think I saw you did not use Coverart for that particular (HiRes) Album. Why ? I'm hinting a bit to other problems I found for 10074 (only) and which could imply anomalies, seen by the Coverart not showing. If that is your case too, then maybe it is virtually solved (over here it is since two days). Thanks, Peter I think this is the only hi-res album that I have had an issue with...I think...I don't have many. No coverart because the album was a download and none came with it, and I have been too lazy to download one from the net, although I should do that. The Neil Young and Daft Punk were both cd rips. |
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Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: 10074 and the Music Root
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on: December 07, 2015, 12:14:37 pm
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Anthony,
OK, thanks.
Before I proceed can you explain this to me (with the notice I may misinterpret something again) :
It has been in order that highering your SFS helps the problem. So, a couple of days later you run into the problem again, and if I see right your SFS is at 0.12.
Why, if you know the problem is caused by a too low SFS in the first place ?
If you, for fun, look into your X3 log file, you can see the repetetive procedure each 0.024 seconds. Do you know how SHORT that is ? Normally that wouldn't even allow to write that log data within that period of time, continuously. Meaning : already for that I don't trust what's happening, no matter you, obviously, will say that it was exactly the same as without the logging.
Show me similar with an SFS of 2 or higher and I won't blame your system. Is that OK with you ?
Regards,
Peter
PS: I may also wonder how you lasted so many days with this low SFS (did you ??) while at first (start of this topic) you could let fail about everything (that's how I read it). Shed some light if possible ...
Most albums play just fine with SFS at 0.09 or 0.12. There are just some that stop after a song or two or three, maybe a quarter or less of the albums I try (I have not kept track of the percentage). I don't know for sure that the problem is caused by the too low SFS, I just know that some albums don't work while most albums do work. I will do the logging of that album with the higher SFS higher tomorrow and send the files across. Thanks, Anthony |
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