I have the Juli@ for that purpose only,
Maybe the Asus Essence will be a better choice, now a days.

I have tried the onboard ones on both Gigabytes boards and they sound horrible.
I have expressed this before, I believe.

Peter,

Can this be your PC to DAC connection ??

DVI ?

I think I can see were this leads, haha 

Don't worry,

Its already a very good MB, you have there, same specs as the Gigabyte.
But the difference is that this Gigabyte is an OVERCLOCKERS board.
With better power regulation (or power lines), especcialy for that purpose.

I mean you can overclock any motherboard.

PS: and watch out, mini-ATX and ATX !! (it wont fit)
     

I have made this exact change some months ago, went frome GA-EP35-DS4 to GA-EP45-EXTREME (overclockers-board)(both Gigabyte)
This improvement was quite BIG !
Did not expected that to happen, but it really does.

Roy

PS: the more of those black square cubes (or how do you call them!)(for power supply) on there the better.
      (look at the black square blocks around cpu)

I have this problem too sometimes, (last night actually)(but its rare)
Thnx Peter for explaination, will keep track of this.

 

Hey and welcome,

I don't think xx plays .m4a files
Try wav, flac or aiff instead

Just listening to Klaus Shulze - 1980 - Dig It/01 - Death of an Analog (I like complex music)
With ARC ofcourse.
Have like 126 albums of him, Tangerine Dream same deal.
They all start to sound fresh again, keep in mind these are very difficult albums to get out of the digital domain.
Will sound very harsh on normal cd-player.
Now I can open up the volume and they still keep sounding good, just amazing

That SQ you would NEVER EVER experience with any CD-player.

New installed Juli@ drivers make it slightly better too for me, I think

I know lots of those people too, but some are a bit afraight of PC's, I guess
You have to be willing to LEARN, and spend some evenings reading.
And setup a dedicated audio-pc.

Its not that hard! (maybe just harder to admit.....)

When playing Unattended there can be nice coverart there. (where those red crosses from xx are)
Use folder.jpg for front cover and use back.jpg as back cover
and put it in the same folder as your music

Later on when you start ripping your cd collection, start off the good way in making your self a fine
music-gallery. (and good folder structure)
But first start ripping.

XX is most complete software outthere even for maintaining large music db up +10.000's albums

 

haha, to get out of unattended (reboot)
Just thinking about that, if you had figured it out so soon.

read release notes and learn how to use AutoHotKey (AHK)
http://www.phasure.com/index.php?topic=724.msg5220#msg5220

If you have (understand) that, use ALT-X to get out of Unattended

You want to get your fine albums on your HDD. Haha

Are you familiar with EAC (Exact Audio Copy)
Do you have any experience on that, already?

Otherwise I can paste some links here.(about optimal settings)

PS: Peter is also working on this (especially to get xx to play cd's "realtime" as well, with that great SQ, too)
     And when he can do that, xx can rip it too.
     But later on, maybe never.

Take my words for it, use A Blu-ray writer drive for that (its not proven that its rips better, but believe me it does)
Something like LG, have to look for the model-type

and have you seen this:

Tweak Vista/w7 dead:
http://www.phasure.com/index.php?topic=548.0

Later on this week we talk about Unattended settings, haha
Oh yes, it gets better and better

But first we have to be sure all your settings are fine (soundcard and such)
Its not the most used connection you have there AES, I mean.
Maybe do some more reading about your souncard and cable connection.
Don't rush, take your time!

Little jealous on your berkeley

These are some what good settings for most people,

Try to get what it does later (step by step) there is lots of info about that already on forum, just look for them (these can be quite technical, but its good information)

See pic 6 I added, try to get it like this, but do it step by step.

See pic 7 these are the Q= sliders (there is info about that either) use for now 0,0,0,0 or 30,30,0,0 like mine.

Try to find out what it does for you, lots of reading to do, haha
XX will grow on you!!

Happy listening

these are most important:

allow format change
start engine3 during conversion
copy to xx-drive by standard