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46  Ultimate Audio Playback / Chatter and forum related stuff / Re: Ever Try One Of These on: June 19, 2019, 09:09:45 am
They have been talked about.  I think Mani might have had one at some stage...I cannot remember.

Peter even makes an ET^2 ethernet cable but I've never read if he has tried it himself or if it is for "others".
47  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: One Root For All and All for One on: March 02, 2019, 10:20:36 am
Hi Peter,

Thanks for all this information, I really appreciate it.  It will be processed shortly when I get a bit of time, but it looks like a good time to jump into galleries considering the next XXHE version snippet that you showed.

Regards,

Anthony
48  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: One Root For All and All for One on: March 01, 2019, 12:36:54 am
Hi Peter,

This is all quite timely Peter, as I was about to start rearranging things in my MusicServer.  However, as I've never used XXHE Galleries I was going to go a different way by either combining volumes  or creating a storage space which are two tools available in W10 for effectively combining multiple drives.  To be honest I had not looked too far into which way I was going to go but now you have these Gallery instructions and I am not sure.

Have you seen those two W10 features before Peter and would you recommend them at all in the name of simplification or should I just forget about it?


Cheers,

Anthony

PS:  You've been quiet lately...I bet you are up to something new...haha.
49  Ultimate Audio Playback / Chatter and forum related stuff / Re: Mani's Mach III -> Lush˄2 -> NOS1 -> Blaxius˄2 on: December 20, 2018, 11:11:09 pm
Mani, that's some dedication lifting the floorboards to replace a perfectly good cable. 

Looking forward to hearing about how you go with all the changes.

Anthony
50  Ultimate Audio Playback / Your thoughts about the Sound Quality / Re: 2.10 sound quality on: November 24, 2018, 03:54:30 am
Yep, I've gotta reboot my AudioPC every day or the sound gets flat...it's very noticeable.
51  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd PC / Re: Phasure Mach III Audio PC with Linear Power Supply on: October 17, 2018, 09:45:59 am
The Mach 111 is a “memory player”, (never saw it that way, but yes).


The Mach III is just a PC with a very specific build, nothing more.  XXHE is the memory player i.e. it loads all of the music file into RAM (memory) before it plays anything.  Some other software can be set to do this, but they don't really do it and they certainly do not do it as well as XXHE (nothing does).


Are all ‘dedicated audio PC’s seen to be, “memory players”?
OR, are you in fact saying, (in that you indicate ‘Tidal not really streaming’) that even the lowliest of PC’s or even laptops are in fact ‘playing’ as a “memory player “?

As I stated above, the Mach III is just a windows PC.  How XXHE treats Tidal is quite different to other players:  it does not stream the files (as in a continuous internet connection is required to download the music files); it plays only previously downloaded files and hence treats them exactly the same as normal music files stored on a hard drive that you may own so they sound the same as the ones you would have ripped from a CD or downloaded from elsewhere and stored on your PC.  There is no internet connection to the Mach III at all.

So no, other computers and laptops are not memory players (only software can make a memory player), they are just computers like the Mach III, but hardware wise they are generally quite different to the Mach III.

Can it be considered that a downloaded high resolution file needs a high level audio PC as against say the device required to play from such as Tidal?

I'm not really sure what you mean here, but I will answer by saying that to get the best sound from digital all your files, be they from Tidal, a download site or ripped from cd's, need to be treated in the same way on the same hardware.  The Mach III and XXHE is the best way I know to achieve this.


IOW, would it be fair to say, that with such as Tidal, that a piece of music would be ‘deteriorated’ to a much lesser degree, than would a downloaded high resolution audio file if ‘played’ using a laptop PC?
Regards

A laptop PC is non-ideal in so many ways regardless of where the music file comes from:  it is a hardware problem.  XXHE used on a laptop will improve the sound one gets from their speakers once some time is spent getting the software set up.  Improve the PC hardware (eg. a Mach III) and the speakers will sound better again.

I hope that answers those questions John.

Cheers,

Anthony
52  Ultimate Audio Playback / Cables (Community induced) / Re: Blaxius Squared ! on: October 16, 2018, 11:38:12 pm
Well Peter, I wondered when this would come about and to be honest I thought it might have been a few more months before we heard something.  I'm yet to use my 8m Blaxius interconnects but by the sounds of it I should get in ahead of Mani for some B^2 because only one pair of such length may ever be possible if you wish to retain family/staff...haha.

I'll be interested to read some reports from others in the meantime though and will get around to ordering some cables once my room is better sorted.

Cheers,

Anthony
53  Ultimate Audio Playback / Interesting Music / Testmaterial / Re: Dominique Fils-Aimé on: September 07, 2018, 02:33:14 am
Thanks for the link Tore, I really enjoyed that album just now.
54  Ultimate Audio Playback / Cables (Community induced) / Re: The greatest invention in/for Audio (Lush^2) on: August 27, 2018, 08:20:16 am

The pitch dropped a little ... But how can that be ?

...

Anthony, if possible, talk a bit more. Let your imagination flow, if possible. How can this be ...

Peter

If I recall properly you and I talked about it at the time somewhere in the forum.  It is a while back now but swapping out the Intona for the Phisolator did lower the pitch a little.  More accurately it may have been that the noise or sound of the Intona was removed or changed for a different one with the Phisolator, but it did happen. 

I've sold mine now, but if you still have yours perhaps stick it back in and listen to the pitch, or what I am calling the pitch.  With the Intona things were a little bit "higher" or tighter strung but with the Phisolator the presentation is more relaxed, calm, like it has all the time in the world and is not in a hurry.

Anyway, that is my memory of the event, and it is also something that I would like more of in my playback, that feeling of infinite dynamic range and effortless control, like there is nothing holding back the flow of things.
55  Ultimate Audio Playback / Cables (Community induced) / Re: The greatest invention in/for Audio (Lush^2) on: August 26, 2018, 11:54:43 pm
Hi Peter,

I don't have the Mach III or the Lush^2, but what you wrote above reminds me of the changes that came with the Phisolator.  The pitch dropped a little compared to what we were getting with the Intona and everything became more calm and less compressed.  I attributed this rightly or wrongly to a lowering of general "noise" in the playback and greatly appreciated the change.

So that is the idea that I get when I read your description above...more calmness, or quietness and room to hear more of the dynamic range.  Of all the descriptions that you have used so far this is the one that is most likely to get me to invest in yet another damn pc and usb cable.

Cheers,

Anthony
56  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: Tidal and the Fleet Foxes on: May 29, 2018, 05:28:06 am
I can now report a solution.  I renamed track 5 (in Explorer) such that the funny 'O' is now a normal 'O' and the file plays.

Groovy.

I've had other files that would not play and now wonder if it was something to do with the filename and funny characters.

Thanks Peter.  My theory is that when the WAV file is written to send to the NOS1a that the funny 'O' causes that file not to be saved which causes the "Music file does not exist" error.  Perhaps a language setting in the OS or something like that.  At least I know now and in the future will rename files that don't play. 
57  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: Tidal and the Fleet Foxes on: May 28, 2018, 11:41:45 pm
Hi Peter,

The dialogue box that pops up for me is

"Music Files does not exist (1):UnicodeTrack0001.wav.  Consider that the LAN is shut down during playback while you play a .WAV and have not set 'Copy To XX-Drive by standard'."

I have both MQA and FLAC versions of all Fleet Foxes albums on Tidal.

https://tidal.com/album/74777930

https://tidal.com/album/74710453


Sounds to me like it could still be the weird 'O' problem.

Regards,

Anthony
58  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Tidal and the Fleet Foxes on: May 28, 2018, 08:23:22 am
Hi Peter,

I am a Fleet Foxes fan and have a problem with track 5 on their latest album (from Tidal):

https://tidal.com/album/74777930

When the album plays through to track 5 I get an error message saying the file does not exist.  It happens with the FLAC and MQA versions.  All other tracks are fine. 

Are you able to download the album and see if it plays for you?  It plays just fine when I stream it from the Tidal website.

Cheers,

Anthony


59  Ultimate Audio Playback / Phasure NOS1 DAC / Re: Vibration! on: May 11, 2018, 09:37:02 am
They are so close I can hear them singing to me.  Flat out with work at the moment so I'm not getting much time to finish the last horns and power-test the amplifiers.  It will happen though...
60  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: CredSSP policy change - no RDP possible on: May 10, 2018, 11:30:49 pm
Hi Anthony,

Thank you very much, it worked on my music server. Got the RDP connection back on.

Best regards,

Arvind

Good to hear Arvind. 

My MusicServer is connected to the internet but I use XXHE to make sure it does not update the OS so this May 8 update has not affected it.  When I am casual listening in my office I will RDC into the MusicServer from another (work) computer that does automatically update and thus was the one that was affected and the one that I had to reset the Group Policy. 

So if your MusicServer does not update (thanks to XXHE settings) then the only place a problem should occur is on the windows machine that is used to RDC to the MusicServer.
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