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316  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: 10074 and the Music Root on: December 07, 2015, 12:06:29 pm
And Anthony, if I see it right, then this is HighRes (24/176400 I'd say). Now all your bets are off because this is way (way) more hammering on everything on the "reading" side of matters.

Peter

Yes, I think that album is hires...I'd completely forgotten.
317  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: 10074 and the Music Root on: December 07, 2015, 09:27:12 am
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I had the situation today where an album played and stopped as discussed in this thread, and then I turned on logging

Please be clear ?
Logging is of no use when it is turned on after the event. I'm sure you understand that. And *thus* I don't understand what you want (me to do) now ?

sorry
Peter

Yes, logging was turned on for the event.  I played the album this morning and it stopped on me, so I turned on logging and pressed play again and the event happened again while the logging was turned on.  You now have those files.  Sorry to not be clear.

318  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: 10074 and the Music Root on: December 07, 2015, 08:36:26 am
Hello Anthony,

Your log files are fine, but I can not use them because nothing went wrong (as you told).

Regards,
Peter

Well, the music stopped early and the computer sat there for a while with a blank screen until I pressed Alt-X to get back into XXHE.
319  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: 10074 and the Music Root on: December 07, 2015, 12:57:42 am

Start that Playlist (at this first track), wait until music stops (and XXHighEnd comes up again, I'd say) and then grab the log files.


Hi Peter,

I had the situation today where an album played and stopped as discussed in this thread, and then I turned on logging and played the album again at I had no stuttering problems.  The log files are attached.  I could not find any X3 and X3PB log files at all, but did find *.log files in the TemporaryData folder on a RAMdisk.

Anthony
320  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: Tidal "Search" on: December 04, 2015, 06:44:32 am
That's the one.
321  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: Tidal "Search" on: December 03, 2015, 10:29:44 pm
Anthony, can you rephrase somewhat please ?
What is the album in question ?
How can you tell (at the Denon) that it is a Remaster, without seeing/knowing that "elsewhere" (?) ?

Thank you,
Peter

Talk Talk "Spirit of Eden" is the album in question.  When streaming to the Denon or AppleTV from the Tidal app on the iPad that album comes up as a 1997 Remaster.  As far as I can see in the Tidal app itself there is no mention of remastering when you look at the album alone, but look at the track listing and it has "(1997 Remastered Version)" not once but twice...."Eden (1997 Remastered Version)(1997 Remastered Version)"

I also found a Sting album from my youth that I wanted to listen to again that shows up in Tidal but not XXHE.  "Nothing Like the Sun" is the album...can you see that now with your updated XXHE Tidal search?
322  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: Tidal "Search" on: December 03, 2015, 11:48:03 am
Tonight I have played with the Tidal player for the iPad and set it up with the Denon AVR in the lounge room.  There I noticed that the particular Talk Talk album in question is a 1997 remaster, so on the long shot that this is pertinent to this conversation I thought I would mention it.
323  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: 10074 and the Music Root on: December 03, 2015, 11:45:02 am
I think that any album that I have had trouble with will play when SFS = 0.20, maybe even as low SFS=0.15, I can't really remember.  Logging works at these levels that enable the album to play properly, whether that be 0.15 or 0.20.

I will keep an eye out tomorrow and check this with any problem albums encounter.
324  Ultimate Audio Playback / Chatter and forum related stuff / Re: Anyone like to comment on this NOS DAC on: December 03, 2015, 11:40:03 am
Good to hear!  That 28.5bits resolution is an extraordinary claim.  I was wondering how they even measure such a thing...
325  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: Tidal "Search" on: December 03, 2015, 11:04:17 am
Anthony,

Happy

Small remark : maybe next time don't make the screens where you make the screenshot from, so wide. Comparing can make one dizzy.

Anyway, the Tidal Player in this case seems to offer the same for our both cases, but what their database officially offers, is not.

Btw ... oops ... what I showed in my previous post was for the USA (remainder from yesterday's testing). Below is The Netherlands (one added, haha) :

Thanks,
Peter

Yeah, sorry about the large screens.  My monitors are quite large but I will trim the images down in future.
326  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: 10074 and the Music Root on: December 03, 2015, 10:59:28 am
Hi Peter,

I have tried the things that you suggested, and am back to Unattended play.  Firstly I played back from files on a hard drive in the XXHEpc and I had the same issues as before, namely a song finishes and then the next one fails to start (I have to press Alt-? for music to restart or to bring back XXHE).

Then I tried the logging.  Not possible, at least I could not figure out how to get a good result.  The logging causes stuttering of the music and when when I raise the SFS to a level that stops the stuttering the next song plays on as it is supposed to, so it is pointless I think because the logging is affecting the operation of the playback.  Please correct me otherwise.

Today I played maybe a half a dozen albums until I ran into one that did the stopping:  Tame Impala "Currents".  I decided to look more closely into the behaviour when I restarted the music by pressing Alt-N and realised that when playback was restarted after a stop that it was not the next song that played, but the song three down (i.e. if it stopped on track 6 Alt-N would make Track 9 play next).  This album had two or perhaps three stops in it.

Does this help at all?

Regards,

Anthony
327  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: Tidal "Search" on: December 03, 2015, 10:48:33 am
I really like the idea of Tidal integration in XXHE and the way that you have gone about it, so thanks from me. 
328  Ultimate Audio Playback / Chatter and forum related stuff / Re: Anyone like to comment on this NOS DAC on: December 03, 2015, 10:45:10 am
While we are talking about resolving bits, did you see that the http://www.msbtech.com/products/dac4select.php?Page=dac4home is supposed to resolve 28.5 bits?  By my calculations that is a noise floor of -171dB...wow.

If you read the blurb they reckon they can now hear CD quantization noise.  US$90k+ though!!
329  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: Tidal "Search" on: December 03, 2015, 01:06:27 am
Hi Peter,

Here is another one.  I am after the "Spirit of Eden" album and can play it in the Tidal player at HiFi quality, but it does not show up in the XXHE search.

Anthony

330  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd PC / Re: Investigating a full linear PSU for the XXHE PC and NOS1 on: December 02, 2015, 06:10:50 pm
Hi Coen,

The LT1083/4/5 are nominal 7.5A/5A/2A respectively, so there is plenty of current available.  Perhaps you have them confused with other LDO's?

The heat sinking is quite something, and if the first stage is run at their maximum current load the LDO's will dissipate about 90watts between them, so I have two great big heat sinks on their way to me that should handle that load with a 20C increase above ambient, which in my experience will still feel quite warm.  There will even be two heatsinked diode bridges for high current rails.  At this stage I have opted for off-the-shelf power transformers and I really don't know what their temperature rise will be, but hopefully not too high.

Anyway, hopefully I can get the ATX Control Board to work first time.

Regards,

Anthony
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