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106  Ultimate Audio Playback / Your thoughts about the Sound Quality / Re: We all fell in the W7 pitfall on: October 01, 2010, 04:02:38 pm
Yes, I will try to have various OSes ready for next week so I won't be alone at judgeing.
Peter

*blink blink*
I feel involved Happy

Yes, you are, hehe

I look forward to it, Telstar

 sounds good !
107  Ultimate Audio Playback / Your thoughts about the Sound Quality / Re: We all fell in the W7 pitfall on: October 01, 2010, 03:12:22 pm

I'm not sure if this is important, but I have the XX SSD formatted as exFAT. Referring back to one of Roy's earlier posts, I will optimise the OS SSD, which is currently formatted as NTFS, before listening to the two.

But I'm bracing myself for a new Vista install...

Mani.

Oh, you are on exFAT !?, I have to dive in the subject again to see were I left it, exFAT why was that better ? (xp can do fat, w7 not)

Mani also use vLite, we on forum should make a proper pre-install (guide), that let you make your settings before install and THEN create a .iso (install)
http://www.vlite.net/about.html

I will also make a .reg file for the necessary registry settings, this all will make an install much easier, cleaner, slimmer and more automated


Roy
108  Ultimate Audio Playback / Your thoughts about the Sound Quality / Re: We all fell in the W7 pitfall on: October 01, 2010, 01:42:41 pm
Also look at this one Peter:

http://www.phasure.com/index.php?topic=548.msg10046#msg10046
109  Ultimate Audio Playback / Your thoughts about the Sound Quality / Re: We all fell in the W7 pitfall on: October 01, 2010, 12:37:29 pm
We have to straighten this out, this of atmost importance.

Maybe spend some time on it, next week, when at your place, Peter !

Can you prepare some OS setups ?

PS: For me its come to the point of loosing interest in music completly. (yes, really)
      And its not me struggling alone, I see Mani, Boleary, Marcin etc ect
      Something is way off
110  Ultimate Audio Playback / Your thoughts about the Sound Quality / Re: We all fell in the W7 pitfall on: October 01, 2010, 11:50:12 am
Roy - good idea. I knew it existed, but forgot about it.

For everyone : Since I will build up the new system anyway, I will try this too. And this one is even "free" (at least that's what I got from it).

Thanks,
Peter

Its free and could be shared among members, because everybody needs their OWN key to install anyway.
111  Ultimate Audio Playback / Your thoughts about the Sound Quality / Re: We all fell in the W7 pitfall on: October 01, 2010, 11:47:49 am
Its about months and months looking for golden settings, which are not there.

I think Peter is right, guys
112  Ultimate Audio Playback / Your thoughts about the Sound Quality / Re: We all fell in the W7 pitfall on: October 01, 2010, 11:22:03 am
Thanks Peter,

Something good came from it anyway,

If people want to install Vista, consider vLite.
http://www.vlite.net/index.html
113  Ultimate Audio Playback / Your thoughts about the Sound Quality / Re: Thanks and Sound Quality on: September 30, 2010, 01:09:46 pm
Ok, the Device I´m using as appear in the litle window is:  KS: Monitor 01 USD [0001] >> #wave and yes, there is sound. If I understand well you Roy, do you mean that if I have sound with the KS mode I don´t have to be aware about Wasapi or Asio?

Good,

ASIO only runs on WASAPI, you don't use WASAPI for #4Engine so, only focus on Kernell Streaming (KS)

Try some music now, you can still switch between WASAPI (-ASIO) and KS.
And what are your findings ?

Common rules in KS are (user findings):

Adaptive mode @ 1024 or 2048 (4096)
Special mode  @ 48

You can also look for settings in Tony S his signature,
 
114  Ultimate Audio Playback / Your thoughts about the Sound Quality / Re: Thanks and Sound Quality on: September 30, 2010, 12:29:23 pm
I think if xx is set to KS mode (see my pic above KS: Juli@ .......) it should play in KS mode, meaning you have sound.

In that same pic you can see the "device buffer size", use that for changing your driver latency.
I dont know if that overrules your normal Musiland setting.

Dont mix up the KS and Wasapi (-ASIO)

Wasapi is what you had first with #3Engine, KS is what should be used for #4Engine !
115  Ultimate Audio Playback / Your thoughts about the Sound Quality / Re: Thanks and Sound Quality on: September 30, 2010, 11:09:02 am
Hey juanpmar,

Hi Audiodidakt,
 
Thanks so much for your help, I wasn´t looking at the complete list of KS devices and yes there is one with KS prefixed. Now I can play with #4Engine. Too many things to look at with this player...ok, the sound makes it worthwhile.

#4Engine (KS) should be better sounding as #3Engine (WASAPI), you have to work out for yourself if you prefer "special" or "adaptive" mode
Special mode is made for low latency playback, which suite me well, for electronic music.
Adaptive mode is more suitable for other music, I guess, higher latency is preferred, like 1024, 2048 samples

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Just a couple of questions:

- How can I see the buffer size in my device?. My Musiland Monitor USD has a window that says ASIO Buffer with 5, 10, 20, 40, 80 and 160 values. If I make a x 100 of these values I get close to the numbers in the Buffer size of the XXHighEnd; as an example 2000 is close to 2048. Is that correct?.
I´m using Adaptive Mode and Q1:1 and when I change the buffer size I can´t tell differences between 2048 and 1024. What should be the differences between higher or lower values

ASIO is for WASAPI, so not for kernel streaming you are using with #4Engine.
I imagine Peter is bit busy today, he will get back on the "Musiland Monitor", which I know nothing about.

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- I can play the music using a preamp or directly with the XXHigEnd. I read in some place that using the Volume affect the sound, in that case would be better to use a preamp, I guess.

Well its better to not use a pre-amp at all, the volume control in xx software is currently the best option available.
BUT, its can be a bit tedious to work with (getting use to).
Hold your horses on taking the pre-amp out of the chain, aproach this with caution.

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Btw, how do you make the screen shots?

In vista, you can use the button "PrtScn" on your upper-right-side of the keyboard, open windows paint then use the paste option in paint.
In W7, you have a nice tool called "Snipping Tool"


Best Regards,

Roy
116  Ultimate Audio Playback / Chatter and forum related stuff / Re: A WARNING about SSD's ... on: September 29, 2010, 11:35:25 pm
Mani,

By creating a gallery, you get all the coverart on c: drive (SSD)
This with the advantage of faster scrolling thru your music gallery.
Gallery can be created in the library section of xx.

Roy

PS: I dont know what it does for you, depends on your music db layout and such (having lots of cover-art)
117  Ultimate Audio Playback / Your thoughts about the Sound Quality / Re: Thanks and Sound Quality on: September 29, 2010, 11:05:15 pm
Hi juanpmar,

You can only use adaptive and special mode with KS !?

#3Engine is also #4Engine, so in both cases ks or wasapi, #3Engine is running.

if you doubt you could make a screenshot of your xx settings and post it.

Roy

PS: and welcome to the scene !
118  Ultimate Audio Playback / Chatter and forum related stuff / Re: My turn to show my mobo idea on: September 29, 2010, 10:43:48 pm
Top notch,

This overclockers board will get over 4 Ghz.
This is a nice update and will give you more insight in the SFS setting and such.

Hope you'll be back on track soon,

G'luck
119  Ultimate Audio Playback / Chatter and forum related stuff / Re: A WARNING about SSD's ... on: September 29, 2010, 09:57:55 pm
Always look at the positive side of things, hehe

Means a lot of extra work for you,

But still keep us updated about your "new" findings, I mean everything.
You are so used to your previous setup, now I am curious about what you might find.

Roy

PS: and a proper reason to get drunk.
120  Ultimate Audio Playback / Chatter and forum related stuff / Re: A WARNING about SSD's ... on: September 29, 2010, 09:51:15 pm
Maybe good that it happened,

You will learn from it, regarding new CPU and mobo in relation with SQ etc.

time for a new pc anyway, haha

voodoo Wink

I guess, I am warned, hmm
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