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61  Ultimate Audio Playback / Cables (Community induced) / Re: Lush^3 on: November 09, 2020, 05:12:45 am
Arvind,

My understanding with the Phisolator is that it is the 5V in the short USB cable that needs to be isolated (but maybe not!).  In any case when I had various FIFO/USB Stream errors, I tried a different short cables with 5V isolated and it worked better for me.

Ramesh
62  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: TIDAL: Remote server error (Unauthorized) on: October 29, 2020, 09:14:08 pm
Peter,

Did Tidal log out make it into 2.11?  Guessing not.

R.
63  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: TIDAL: Remote server error (Unauthorized) on: October 29, 2020, 02:22:13 am
Fixed now, but very odd.

I took the old TidalSession.dat file, and changed the date.  That seemed to force a login.

Not sure exactly why this worked, but Tidal  search and stream are now working again.
64  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / TIDAL: Remote server error (Unauthorized) on: October 29, 2020, 02:13:07 am
All,

I just started getting the error trying to perform a Tidal Search and Stream: "Remote server returned an error (401) Unauthorized". I know some have had this in the part and it was related to a tidal login timeout.

I've tried deleting the TidalSession.dat file and restarting XXHE with no luck.  I am not prompted for a new login to Tidal, and no new TidalSession.dat file is created.

Any ways out of this that I can try before shipping the TidalSession file to Peter?

R.
65  Ultimate Audio Playback / Cables (Community induced) / Re: Lush^3 on: October 17, 2020, 12:04:06 am
Listened briefly.  Very, very good.  Better than all others before.  Will listen more tonight and over the weekend.
66  Ultimate Audio Playback / Cables (Community induced) / Re: Lush^3 on: October 10, 2020, 06:10:03 pm
Listening to the Olafsson Bach album with the new configuration.  Glorious.  Not sure how to really compare this and the opposite other right now.  More after some additional listening.
67  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: Phase Alignment on: October 09, 2020, 08:37:28 pm
Peter,

Does the XXHE Phase Alignment require the NOS DAC or can this be tried with any DAC?

Ramesh
68  Ultimate Audio Playback / Cables (Community induced) / Re: Lush^3 on: October 09, 2020, 07:24:20 am
Anthony,

I understand what absolute polarity does.  I somehow thought that this was what the Phase alignment setting did.  What does Phase alignment then do in XXHE?  Has anyone used it?  Maybe this should be a different thread.

Ramesh
69  Ultimate Audio Playback / Cables (Community induced) / Re: Lush^3 on: October 09, 2020, 06:57:08 am
How is this different from the Phase Alignment setting?  I know there are all kinds of warnings about turning phase alignment on.
70  Ultimate Audio Playback / Cables (Community induced) / Re: Lush^3 on: October 08, 2020, 08:29:52 pm
Changed SFS to 20.69.  Also reset buffer size to 16ms.  I had it at 4ms when experiencing the USB Stream/FIFO errors.

First.  It is dangerous for me to play music during working hours--even though we are all working remotely now.  Because I am immediately drawn to the music, and need to stop working and sit down and listen. Like a magnet.  This has not happened before, where more casual listening was possible.

Second.  It is even harder to evaluate because of the same reason. The music is in the foreground.  The beauty, power, grace, transcendence of the music.  Evaluation takes some separation from the music, and once the music starts playing, it is very hard to make this separation.

I cannot believe that a USB cable can make this kind of difference.  It defies logic.  What I am experiencing is a whole new system.  Everything is different.  It is literally the experience of having acquired a new DAC and speakers.

My test has always been orchestral music, symphonies, and other complex music with many instruments playing together.  I could not listen all the way through symphonies because something was not quite right.  For the first time I can sit transfixed by the music and not start noticing something not quite right with the system.

I will listen more and try to articulate specifics.  The Lush^3 is a GIANT upgrade in SQ that I really do not quite understand.  It is not logical that a USB cable can do so much.  Makes me start to wonder about Blaxius^3. Ha Ha!
71  Ultimate Audio Playback / Cables (Community induced) / Re: Lush^3 on: October 07, 2020, 10:23:59 pm
Hooray!!!

I can listen to symphonic music again without flinching when masses of strings and trombones start going.

Going to do more listening.  The difference in playback of symphonic music is dramatic.

Ramesh
72  Ultimate Audio Playback / Cables (Community induced) / Re: Lush^3 on: October 07, 2020, 08:07:27 pm
Wow!!

I think the Lush^3 may be the most significant upgrade after Mach III, and G3.  Some impressions.

No distortion.  This manifests most obviously in the desire to turn up the volume.  Peter mentioned this.  I'm playing music louder, and want to play it even louder, 3dB - 6dB.  Even the slightest distortion that normally causes fatigue is gone.

Clarity.  Crystal clear.  Completely silent background.  Microdetails.  The result is extreme naturalness, especially the timbre of acoustic instruments. 

Imaging.  I know its a cliche, but we could use "pin-point" imaging to describe this.  Instruments and singers are solidly placed and stable.  Much more so that with Lush^2 where there still remained some impreciseness with where instruments are located.  I used to think this was because of listening too close to the Orelos. 

Bass.  Amazing!! The bass on the Orelos has always been incredible, but now it's really astonishingly good.  Especially the really low registers.

Percussion.  Natural. precise.  Less splashy.  More focused.  And yes, you can sense the skins on drumheads flexing.

This is just in the first day. Will update as I listen more. 

To conclude: this is a significant upgrade.
73  Ultimate Audio Playback / Cables (Community induced) / Re: Lush^3 on: October 06, 2020, 03:30:22 am
OK, looked at the instruction diagram again.

A: B on pin 1; Y on pin 2; R on pin 3; half jumper on 4; half jumper on 5; full jumper on 5 and 6

B: W on pin 1; Y on pin 2; full jumper 3 and 4; half jumper 5; R on 6; G on 7.

Hoping this is correct.
74  Ultimate Audio Playback / Cables (Community induced) / Re: Lush^3 on: October 06, 2020, 02:40:30 am
Read the examples in the instruction sheet with Lush^3, and am interpreting B: W-Y & R-G to mean W on pin 1, Y on pin 2, half jumper on 3; full jumper of 4 and 5, R on 6, and G on 7.

So here goes, am going to try it this evening.
75  Ultimate Audio Playback / Cables (Community induced) / Re: Lush^3 on: October 06, 2020, 12:49:36 am
Peter,

Just to clarify so I have this configuration correct.

On A:  B connected to pin 1, with the red dot; Y to pin 2; R to pin 3; full jumper between 4 and 5; half jumper on 6; half jumper on 7.

On B: Nothing on pin 1 (red dot); W on pin 2; Y on pin 3; full jumper on 4 and 5; red on pin 6; green on pin 7.

I am not clear on the B side if W is connected to pin 1 (red dot).

A picture would be most appreciated.

The Lush^3 just arrived!!!
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