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241  Ultimate Audio Playback / Music Storage and convenient playback / Re: How do we organize our music folders ? on: August 18, 2010, 04:26:27 pm
hey Peter,

I use folder structure no. 1

I don't need to put the artists into genre's as I know the style of music each artist I have falls under, and sometimes an artist may have albums that span different genre's and that would just add another layer of complexity trying to figure out where to put them.

When choosing music for listening I tend to focus on the actual artist I want to be "entertained" by, rather than having a "rock" afternoon, or perhaps a "classical" evening.

If you are thinking of having the renaming based upon internal tags, please make that a de-selectable option, as data provided by CDDB and their kind don't always fall into line with how I like things. An example of this is the year field. Quite often it's depicted as year of release, whereas I normally use the year of recording. I also haven't bothered tagging my music for a number of years now since XXHE was released.

I normally append the year of recording to the album name just for reference. I would not want the year data as a prefix as it makes it harder to find a particular album if they are sorted by year order.

Cheers,

Russ
242  Ultimate Audio Playback / Chatter and forum related stuff / Re: 16/44.1 vs. 24/176.4 on: August 13, 2010, 11:18:59 am

I've recorded Dave Brubeck's 'Time Out' from vinyl at 16/44.1 and 24/176.4 resolutions. These are separate recordings (i.e. the first was not derived from the second).


G'day Mani,

I am unable to play back the 176K stuff currently, but I did take this opportunity to compare your 16/44.1 sample to my Columbia 20 bit redbook remaster from 1997 ( 7464-65122-2 )( CK 65122 ) and the first obvious difference was the diminished microdetail ( eg. air flutter ) in the reed from Desmond's sax. It was quite subdued in the vinyl rip. Although your vinyl rip was a lot cleaner than most needle drops I have listened too, it still had a noise floor well above the redbook copy, and that probably contributed to a little of the sparkle missing from the performance I am used to hearing from the album.

I went through an exercise a while back of transferring a number of my old reel to reel tapes to digital and I came to the realisation that whenever an intermediate copy is introduced, it will never be as good as if you used the original master tapes. Your vinyl rip just reinforces that point.

IMHO, needle drops are a worthwhile pursuit if you wish to casually listen to a favourite and often rare and unobtainable album in the car or when mobile, but will rarely equal a redbook CD derived from the same original masters.

BTW, if you enjoy Take Five as a tune in it's right, and I presume you do, Joe Morello released an album called Morello Standard Time in which he plays a very nice rendition. It's released on the DMP label.

Cheers,

Russ
243  Ultimate Audio Playback / Chatter and forum related stuff / Re: Testing a few amps on: July 30, 2010, 09:15:13 am
... while he recounted all the occasions where he had demonstrated the superiority of these CD players to his customers over their “terrible-sounding USB DACs”, and where he also made some pretty dodgy statements about digital audio in general ...

Hi Mani,

it's reassuring to read that dickheaditis (tm) is not confined to the southern oceans and has proliferated worldwide .. haha. Seems like that company needs to change their name to "The Audio Insulters". Your patience exceeds mine by a long margin, as I would have hung up after a couple of minutes. I enjoyed the read Happy

Cheers,

Russ 
244  Ultimate Audio Playback / Your thoughts about the Sound Quality / Re: Frame Buffer Size? on: July 30, 2010, 08:56:38 am
Hi wushuliu and  Welcome !

Every system being used here will have slight variants, so there is no "correct" buffer settings per se. However, as a general feeling, the larger the buffer setting, the "warmer" the sound is perceived. Conversely, as the buffers are lowered, the sound will appear to exhibit quicker transients, which some perceive to be more "accurate". Personal preference will dictate as to what you finally end up with. You will notice from my signature I use very low buffers, and that is attributable to the Juli@ card to a large extent in being able to support those low buffers.

It is also a good idea to monitor your CPU usage initially while lowering the buffer size. A very low setting will increase the CPU requirements considerably. If you experience background clicks and glitches, there is every likelihood the CPU is not able to keep up, or, your "schemes" need adjustment.

In helping to arrive at your ideal setting, I suggest you only change one parameter at a time, and then spend a day or two, before altering another. It can be very confusing if you change too many items at once !

When you have a spare moment, a signature ( go to your profile ) outlining your source path and XXHE settings will be useful for others to see what you are using.

Have fun Happy

Russ
245  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Progress Bar on: July 10, 2010, 05:06:17 am
 hel-loo Peter,

The progress bar that was incorporated in the earlier GUI has gone AWOL in the new look. Any chance of getting it back somehow, or using the 5 white "process" squares at the top of the GUI. For example, when creating extensive galleries or physically copying FLAC to WAV's, there is no feedback as to what is happening in the background.

Thanks mate,

Russ ( in chilly Melbourne )

PS. GO Spain ...  evil
246  Ultimate Audio Playback / Phasure NOS1 DAC / Re: World's first NOS 24/192 filterless DAC ? on: July 01, 2010, 06:22:19 am
Looking forward to "official" photos of ready-to-ship product.

The official release pictures will be out shortly, but here's a sneak peak of Peter working on an early version. It clearly shows he's been working on the experimental NOS in a compact form for some time now.























 innocent


247  Ultimate Audio Playback / Your questions about the PC -> DAC route / Re: Hi from Melbourne AUS - Advice for a rookie on: June 15, 2010, 05:48:55 pm
Could you recommend a good speaker company here in AUS?

I know one, but i think it's way out of your budget. Worth looking anyway.
http://www.aslanacoustics.com.au/

The designer is a very nice guy.

hmmm .... I think this is where I bite my tongue to stop me from voicing an opinion in an open forum  whistle

Dave ... shoot me a PM with a phone contact and we'll have a chat.

Cheers,

Russ
248  Ultimate Audio Playback / Your questions about the PC -> DAC route / Re: Hi from Melbourne AUS - Advice for a rookie on: June 14, 2010, 02:29:07 pm

With regard to the hardware side, I am lucky as I recently bought a new desktop computer. It’s an intel E7400 and 4 GB ram (though on XP I can’t use 2GB of that). I run a tv tuner card and the internet through it onto the big screen in the living room, but I can disable all that when running XXHE.

Do as I do Dave .... create several partitions on your system drive, and set up multiple boot environments.

Russ
249  Ultimate Audio Playback / Your questions about the PC -> DAC route / Re: Hi from Melbourne AUS - Advice for a rookie on: June 14, 2010, 02:21:46 pm
Having said that, I was almost convinced to spend around $4000euro on a new pair of tannoy prestige speakers on the weekend Wink

There are plenty of alternate local products available Dave. Keeps your hard earned in our economy.

Cheers,

Russ
250  Ultimate Audio Playback / Your questions about the PC -> DAC route / Re: Hi from Melbourne AUS - Advice for a rookie on: June 14, 2010, 02:17:17 pm
Hello from Australia!

If the person who introduced me to this site reads this, could you let me know who you are so I can thank you!

G'day Dave,

you're welcome, and happy to be of service  Happy

There's hours of reading here that you will no doubt have discovered by now. It's also a good time to have discovered XXHE as it nears it's milestone 1.0 version, although you have missed out on all the fun since it's inception 3 years ago.

If you have any questions just blaze away.

Cheers neighbour,

Russ
251  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: 0,9z-1 clock/resolution operations in future version on: June 10, 2010, 02:23:33 am

Most users want to upsample or not. When they want, they want upsample to DAC's maximum resolution. Always.


Not necessarily Jarek.

In my case my Juli@ and pre/processor will handle 24/192, however, because I use the parametric equilizer function of the latter to tame some minor room mode anomolies, I am restricted to LESS THAN 176.4 if I want to use that equilizer function. (There's a technical upper limit to what the pre/pro can have as input while still providing equilizer function).

Upshot of all this is that I use DOUBLE upsampling for redbook stuff rather than a QUAD, which if used would disable the equilizer in the pre/pro.

For this very reason I like Roy's idea of have an option to DOWNSAMPLE also. This would permit me to play 24/192 (and higher) material natively without first having to convert to 24/96 externally (eg. dBPowerAmp ).

Cheers,

Russ


252  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: XX won't start with a 7 seconds track on: June 07, 2010, 09:33:19 am
Here in the outback coffee is too exotic. We made do with ground dried dingo dung, slow brewed over a redgum charcoal fire. Keeps you awake for hours, which is a blessing because it allows more time to listening to music.  teasing

Looking forward to z-1.

Dank je

Russ

253  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: XX won't start with a 7 seconds track on: June 07, 2010, 03:37:06 am
hey there Pierre,

thought I would just give this a bump as I noticed it was still an issue in latest version ( zb ).

I queued up Isao Suzuki's "BlowUp 2" album and it has a 9 second intro track which kills Engine#3(4) each time at play commencement.

Strangely though, if I reorder the tracks so they are played second, first, third etc, then that short track one plays OK.

merci beaucoup,

Russ




 
254  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: RDP and XXHE aren’t compatible on my Win 7 PC on: June 02, 2010, 02:34:31 am
G'day Dan,

When you play XXHE are you "stopping the services"? If so, try again without that option ticked.

Do you have problems in both attended AND unattended mode?

Have you tried alternatives to RDC? RealVNC comes to mind.

Cheers,

Russ
255  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: 0.9z No ToolTips on: May 30, 2010, 10:47:55 am
For now ... The mouse pointer must be over that small "Active" light in the left of the button. Then it works ...

ah ha ... good tip for the tool tip  Grin

Russ
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