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16  Ultimate Audio Playback / Phasure NOS1 DAC / Hiss on: June 22, 2021, 09:10:18 pm
Hello All,

I have a new tube amp with  La Scala speakers and have noticed a hum, which may have been there previously , but is now much more pronounced with this new setup.

With the amp volume all the way to 10 and the NOS1 switched off and connected by the  RCA jacks, there is very little noise. The same is true if I use something other than the NOS1 to play music through the RCA jacks. Everything seems to work pretty quietly except for the NOS1.

If I turn on the NOS1 but leave switch 4 off, it is silent. If I play music with switch 4 off, the static hiss returns and is quite noticeable.

If the NOS1 is powered on and switch 4 is on, there is quite a bit of hiss without even playing music.

I have an older house and the electric outlets are only two wire, so no earth ground. I have plugged in only the amp and the NOS1 and tried a couple of different outlets but unfortunately, I always have the same hiss.

My plan is to re-run grounded outlets with a dedicated circuit but before that, does anyone have any suggestions for how to remove this hiss? I've ended up just turning the amp volume to about 2 o'clock to reduce the noise but I know that is not ideal in the long run.

Best,

David
17  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: Tidal / MQA - Update - Heading 2.12 on: June 14, 2021, 07:53:00 pm
This is the image I get and what I mean by the blank one.

I don't get any errors when preparing this album. My MQAData in the prepared folder is -

AudioQuality : HI_RES
MQARate : -
18  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: Tidal / MQA - Update - Heading 2.12 on: June 14, 2021, 05:11:35 pm
Hi Peter,

This is the album I double checked before posting but I am pretty sure I have seen it with others.

https://tidal.com/browse/album/186513969

Silfur, Dustin O'Halloran
19  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: Tidal / MQA - Update - Heading 2.12 on: June 14, 2021, 02:37:30 pm
Hi Peter,

I noticed that one album with a blank, white MQA label on XXHighend plays at 48khz 24 bits, but that exact same album file on Roon is listed as FLAC 48khz 24 bit, MQA 96khz.

When played, it is decoded by Roon's MQA decoder at the 96khz rate. I don't know if this gives you any clue to what is going on though...
20  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: Alt-D and Alt-U issue on: June 10, 2021, 02:44:19 pm
Hello Peter,

I just found out that when I uncheck the "Show as Wallpaper", I have the issue with Alt-U stopping playback when in unattended and it is not possible for me to change the volume. With the box checked, both Alt-U and Alt-D work correctly.

Best,

David

21  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: Alt-D and Alt-U issue on: June 08, 2021, 04:51:41 pm
Yes, I did give that a try but nothing...
22  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: Alt-D and Alt-U issue on: June 07, 2021, 02:22:14 pm
Hi Peter,

This is the one I found-

http://www.phasure.com/index.php?topic=3337.60

23  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: Alt-D and Alt-U issue on: June 06, 2021, 01:41:41 pm
Good memory Peter. I found the threads and it seems to have been related to the NAS.

I never had trouble with displaying cover art from my NAS until I changed disks and went to a 2 disk RAID configuration. That may have been when my cover art stopped displaying.

It's not very important to me but I do miss seeing the track title and the volume.

Best,

David
24  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: Alt-D and Alt-U issue on: June 05, 2021, 02:32:41 pm
I went back to the 14393 base and and after rebooting, the alt-D and U started working correctly again. Now in 14393 RAM all is back to normal.

I found out that the wallpaper shows correctly if the tracks are WAV files but I get the black screen if they are FLAC. Both JPEGs seem to be similar and I can't figure out why it shows for one type of file and not another.

Thanks,

David
25  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: Playback jumps to next track prematurely on: June 04, 2021, 06:57:20 pm
I just manually delete these files under the Streams folder.

26  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: Playback jumps to next track prematurely on: June 04, 2021, 02:51:21 pm
These new unmarked MQA tracks would not play for me unless I unchecked the Decode MQA box. I have now just started deleting all the files on the first page of the folder structure - the MTT, MQA Data,  ect. leaving only the stream folder.

This seems to work without issue now and the bit rate comes up at 24, 48000 and plays like a normal FLAC.


Best,

David
27  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Alt-D and Alt-U issue on: June 04, 2021, 12:25:00 pm
Hello Peter,

About a month or two ago, I lost the "Display Wallpaper" which now only shows a black screen in unattended. I also lost the Alt-u and Alt-d commands. Nothing happens in unattended when I press Alt-d and when I push Alt-U the music stops. I can return to the desktop with Ctrl Alt X though. I cannot remember what I was doing to cause this loss of these unattended  commands.

I am using the Ram disk and now have all the same settings you have been using. I re-installed the XX over-patch to see if it would just replace a corrupt file or something but still no change.

Any ideas?

Best,

David
28  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: RAM -OS files do not load into 16GB memory on: April 07, 2020, 03:45:30 pm
I am finally considering adding the RAM-OS but I just noticed this post.

I use an onboard GPU (ASRock Z97M Pro4) and was wondering if it is still the case that the RAM-OS will not load unless there is a separate PCIe graphics card. 

Has anyone been able to get things up and running with in onboard GPU or do I need to get a graphics card?


Thanks,

David

29  Ultimate Audio Playback / Playback Tweaks and Source related subjects / Re: Minority Clean on: April 04, 2020, 04:15:45 pm
Hi Michael and thanks for the suggestion. I'm giving it a try.

One thing-


 I have difficulties running Unattended, it's unstable. Often the RDC link gets lost and can't be recovered. The PC must be rebooted. So I put it on the side for now.


Do  you have the stop W10 services checked? I always have trouble eventually if I try unattended with that checked.

I have no trouble playing unattended and keeping the remote connection with only Stop Desktop, Stop Remaining, Stop WASAP, Keep LAN and Use Remote checked.

Best,

David
30  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Stop W10 services on: April 02, 2020, 08:46:17 pm
Hi Peter,

If I check stop W10 services, all works as it did before when coming out of an unattended playback session with the desktop/taskbar eventually displayed.

If I uncheck W10, and come out of an unattended playback, XXHE starts but the start button and the desktop are empty. I can continue to load another album and enter unattended again. If I hit the stop button when XXHE is back from unattended, all the desktop and taskbar options reappear.

I quite like that this happens (with W10 unchecked) for simplicity sake and I was wondering if it was on purpose. If not,  is it  happening for anyone else?

Just an amazing job with this one! I cannot believe that you keep finding ways to improve the sound.

Best,

David



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