Yep, you've gotta power cycle both the nos1a and the pc or the sound eventually degrades.   I don't really know why.

I will share Juan,but to be honest I have just started on the project.  The way I see it there are three stages and I will start a thread after I have completed the second stage...which is 90% done.  This month hopefully!

Dirty Deeds was the album and the guitars are just like you say...but the whole presentation is so profound and spectacular and the soundstage sooo very wide and crystal clear. 

A while back I made some fancy vibration isolation stuff for the NOS1a G3 and it cleaned up the mids and highs tremendously without changing any software settings.  The change of sound was not subtle and I had to get rid of my cheap-arse speaker cable for something a bit more suitable to tame the presentation...which worked.  Anyway, these new settings combined with my anti-vibration stuff are just fabulous.

Peter, have you listened to any ACDC with the new settings?  Wow..

Hi Peter,

Yep...those settings are much, much better.  I had gone back to my old settings but in my short listening so far this morning my sound is superb and I do now think you are onto something.  I'll expand after I've had more time to listen. 

Cheers,

Anthony

Hi Peter,

I've only listened a little with SFS=0.7 and xQ1=40 and I'm am not really liking what I am hearing (Mark Knopfler - Privateering).  There is a bleaching happening especially around the brush strokes on the drum and mid vocal range.  In some ways the electric guitar strings are more real, but they too are bleached and missing some meat.

Anyway, early days, but I'll give it more of a go for a while and see what I think.

Cheers,

Anthony

Yep.  I did it to a smaller SSD and it worked fine and I even removed some of the os's because I am unlikely to use them.  They are still on the HDD if I ever need them though.

Peter may not want the method shared on the forum though...I made my own method without Peters help and it worked first go but maybe Peter should chime in and let us know how he would like us to proceed.

Not that I have noticed, but I have not been listening for it either.  Two days ago I changed from the RAM-OS HDD to SSD in order to get more rapid startups...they both sound fantastic!  I would use the SSD just for the quicker boot time with a 24gb OS load...

It is interesting that you say this Peter, because I have noticed that my AudioPC gets slower to do things the more days it is left on...it also sounds worse of course.

nah, signature is not up to date...I should get in and do that.  Interesting that you have to cycle your gear as well...

EDIT:  d.o.n.e.

Well, I have been intrigued by this phenomenon for some time and cautiously experimenting to see what causes the gradual sound degradation and have come to a simple conclusion. 

I leave the NOS1a G3 on permanently, almost never turning it off.  Likewise for the Stealth PC...at least I used to.  For a while I played with disconnecting the usb cable and turning things on and off but could not get a handle on just what was causing the sound to gradually deteriorate over a period of days.  A while back I also started using a preamp but this did not alleviate the issue, so I concluded that in my situation the problem is between the dac and the PC, not the dac and the amp/preamp.  Lately, I have started to turn off the StealthPC at night once I am finished with it, but the dac and preamp are left running, sometimes the amplifier too, but not often...I've had good sound consistently since doing this. 

So my advice is to turn off the PC once in a while to 'reset' things.  If I knew what was causing the issue I would attack it directly, but I have not yet done the experiments.  There is a sneaking suspicion in the back of my mind about a difference in the chassis potential between the NOS1a and the Stealth PC because both are removed from PE.  One day I will experiment with grounding cables between the two, heck probably between all my components back to the preamp as the star-ground point...perhaps that is the answer.

Mmmm...that link works for me, but Tores link did not work and I was presented with just the Tidal front page and had to search for the artists in Tidal.  Looks like the links Tore and I have used are good for only us in our signed in Tidal players.

Your "share link" works though Peter, and that is how I will do it next time.  It would be nice to be able to share a link like that to get XXHE to find it...

Thanks Tore, I enjoyed that album and I'll look up some of her back catalogue.  The way some of the chords change and even vocal style at times reminded me of another of my favourite female vocalists, Beth Gibbons, of Portishead fame.  She only made one solo album but I still frequently listen to it.

https://listen.tidal.com/artist/30466

Cheers,

Anthony

Yep, that message sits down in the bottom right of my screen as well during unattended playback.

Ah, ok.  I doubt that you will have any problems at all.