Good,

See my pic 5.

Try those settings, scheme 3, player prio = low, ThreadPrio = Realtime and try Q1 = 4 or try 14

then fool around with ARC

Roy

I Hope that the volume silder is not always down See your pic

I guess not, but just to be sure.

Pic 1 = How to attach pics on forum (use Snipping Tools in W7 to make them very handy tool)
          (Click addittional Options)
Pics 2,3,4 are your soundcard settings (use speaker Icon to get there, Right under on desktop)

See pic2 for Default device, you can disable all others (just Right click and disable)
             ONLY keep SPdif (but make some screen shots first, so we can see whats there)
             (maybe AES ???)
Pic 3 and 4 speak for them selfs

Pic 5 = are XXHE settings

Maybe You already know this, but just to be sure
And follow Peter's leads!!
Maybe get some AES16 Software screen shots



PS: very nice "stuff" you have there, indeed (when its going to work, it will ROCK)

All works flawless here, (I am on latest version, with W7 RC build 7100, yes)

Very happy with how it sounds.

Different set-ups can cause different problems. (don't worry)

My friend is here to listen to some music, for a couple of hours.
So have to go............

 

Welcome earflappin,

Cool nickname btw (this what you experienced first time hearing xx, I guess) haha

Peter will sort it out together with you, I know for sure.(all problems will be sorted out)

Then you will experience Engine3, that is the real deal.

Grtz Roy
 

Technology is going fast blazing fast

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/storage/display/20090305132228_OCZ_Technology_Develops_1TB_Solid_State_Drive_with_Extreme_Performance.html

Nice one Ivo,

http://www.msfn.org/board/windows-7-rtm-32-64-bit-updated-t137765.html

It can do W7 as well.............!

Will try it in the future


PS: If you can install programs too, its a kind of BACK-UP

LOL

Its a lot of work, I know, but we have to move forward, haha
Don't know for sure if it sounds better, but I think it does, so if you are in for challenge.............

Some back ground: I have had so much trouble with Vista (NOT XX RELATED), I fully trust W7 as the better OS.
Especially with SSD, really it is better and sure faster. (Peter will be joining us soon)

Roy\\\

Sunshine, moonlight, goodtimes, boogie

http://download.esi-audio.com/?w=esi&p=6&g=1&l=en

FYI
23-10-2009 New drivers

But be carefull, read ESI the forum !!! (there could be problems)

For me its the other way around, I really need a soundcard, I did some listening a couple of months ago, The onboard sound device is really horrible, dead, no dynamics, boring. (also Gigabyte)
I'am still on a Toslink, will modify my soundcard next week, and try a coax (I have good experiences with the coax Belden 1694A or use the 1505A)
Toslink and xx always sounded "good" to me, so there was no rush to "upgrade" to coax.
But I have the parts still laying around.

Nice to see people playing around with the Hong Kong DAC, its that cheap, so why not.
Good choice

Grtz

I think using a word-clock is always better. (especially with the normal crystal in there, this isn't ment for audio)

I have build-in several clocks for friends of mine several years ago (LC-audio clock and tentlabs clock)

I find it very usefull

Can you explain "reclocker",
Do you mean a word-clock or XO clock ?

Or am I missing something ?

The Gigabyte MoBo I have is an overclockers-board, with better power-lines or something like that because it sounds really good
It also has an onboard T.I (Texas Instruments) FW connection.
It costs about 150-160 euro range, maybe cheaper already.

No falling in sleep here.

Yes, I can use ARC (in my case only double, depends on DAC ofcourse), and it sounds good too, there is a Toslink and for coaxial you have to use a thingie suplied with the juli@,
I still have to modify the card with a decent RCA connector. (see pic)

I don't think it plays WMA files, but you can convert them to 24/96 FLAC
Use Foobar or something like that to convert them to flac

Roy