Today I bought an album,

And 2 problems during ripping are there at once, from which I thought it could be usefull to post them on the forum.

The first is about SECURE ripping with EAC,
Its important to use the "test & copy" function in EAC, meaning, to make use of CRC-calculations,
I had to rip the album TWICE, to get it right.
If you do not use test and copy, about 2-3 albums out of 50 are not SECURE, they have not the same CRC-calculations after test and copy.

Second problem is about albums that have pre-emphasis (not so many are)
While your rip is 100% secure it does have pre-emphasis on it, there is no problem if you just burn it and play it on a regular cd-player.
But this is NOT the case with PC-playback, the album needs to be de-emphasized, which is a lossy process by itself. (SOX can do this for eg.)
Thats why it is important to keep your logs and cue-sheets, because then you can recognize this by the "flag" in the cue sheet.
http://blowfish.be/eac/Rip/rip12-preemph.html

Roy

Better burn the ISO on dvd if possible,

Should give less problems, its (probably) not about a "wrong" vlite created vista, its about the way you install it........so burn it, then install.

Roy

PS: I wish i had the time, grrr 

Maybe without soundcard (comes with NOS1) and casing, but it will be better and most likely sound better too.
For me its about the sound not the bling-bling that comes along, which is not always a good choice for SQ.

But still nice to see the "highend" industry finally catches-up.

Not offending anybody, at all, but come on who needs all the extra's, you ?? do you really ???
Its for show....... "the audio show"

6K and on W7 ? its just a PC

I can offer (so can Marcin) a complete build for way under 2K, with only the best stuff on the market today, you wonder where the other +4K goes, haha

I though we just "auditioned" W7 a bit too long already. 

Roy

Its best to stay away from any so-called optimizers, cleaners and scanners etc.

some are even counter-productive if you do not know what you are doing, or not know what the software exactly does
for eg.

- indexing
- bootoptimizers
- prefetch

are called optimizers too, while we DO turn them off.

2c

Roy

Nice mobo's:
http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3571#ov

http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3527#sp

 

Hey Geeky O'Leary  , hehe

Its best to rip your vista image to hdd first, then make a copy of that image and save that as backup.
So start of with 2 folders 1 backup-folder and 1 to strip-down-folder.
This to avoid ripping vista to hdd each time you screw up a vLite version

\Roy

No time at the moment, working 12 hours a day already
I have a dutch version still, need to get a english version of vista first.

Like said before: just strip most of the stuff you dont need, set unneeded services to manual, go from there.
I would be nice to have a fully stripped version of vista, because it saves space, but i dont believe it makes sense for SQ
to fully strip vista, just eliminate the bad stuff.

Roy

Hi all,

Me also back at work, after a long period without a job.
 

So have to take some steps back now, although i will follow everything closely.
But unfortunately I can spend less time on testing and such.

Roy

Gerard,

Search/Run, "Services.msc" or see here

For services and what they do see Black Viper

Roy

I have that flickering light each second too !

Sound is also the same as you discribe................

Roy

What a great sounding OS i have installed here, FABULOUS !
Untweaked even on spinning disc

I dare to say and try for yourself, but its SPEED that we're after. (CPU/RAM/mobo)
Overclock as much as you can, because the cpu wont get really hot, just dont over-volt too much.

XX is really responsive from this, meaning a 9min song wil play within a second. (dep on settings and needs)

And the sound:

well, how about a field of sparkles in a dome of sound, what a soundstage, hmm

What happened here ?

It was open for discussion,
 

@ Special Mode 32 samples, SFS 12MB, Q 1,0,0,0,0
But to premature, will take more time to test further.

Peter, thanks for the fast reply on the new activation code, this get me going fast

I think I have a GOOD working Vista Install (vLite), with RAMDisk.

I mean really good sounding, felt the bass on my hands from meters away, could play very loud and have clean hights.

I think this is the foundation for further tweaking for me........most tweaks still needs to be done.
BUT with CAUTION.

Also changed some BIOS settings, like EIST off, and overclocked Q9550 @ 2.83 --> now @ 3.48, RAM also overclocked a little.

Roy