Will give that sequence a try. Thanks!

Great, will give the "repeater" a try.

Yes-W7.

So, Peter, the little router I put in the room would have a wireless connection to the main router in the kitchen? Sorry for being a bit uninformed about this stuff. Thanks Joachim that may work too.

Well I'd have to disagree with the idea that XX settings don't make much of a difference. On the first day I received my "a" upgrade, I applied Peters settings above. The sound was a bit strange and, accounting for break in, I immediately reapplied my settings below and the sound was much better, but still things in the DAC needed to have some burn in time. After 10 plus days of 24/7 burn in time, it's clear to me that SFS and Clock resolution settings still make significant differences in my system (this is without any clock upgrade in the PC) I think the most significant change comes with the clock resolution. Before my "a" upgrade I had to set the clock res to 15. Going lower just made the sound too harsh. Now I've found the best setting to be 1, just the opposite from before. If I now set it at 15 the sound becomes noticeably grey. If I go to .5 it becomes noticeably harsh. Though not as dramatic a change, I find that a SFS of .4 works best for me. If I go to 20 or 60 SFS the sound gets too rounded and when I go below .4 it gets too harsh. The changes with SFS are certainly much more subtle than they were before the "a" upgrade but they are definitely there.

I haven't sorted out all the settings but using my settings below I'm currently totally amazed at the level of SQ I'm getting.

Thanks Peter but this is really too bad for me. My router is on the first floor, in the kitchen. Will be unworkable to run a cable to the third floor unless I go outside the building. Hoping to avoid that I tried with a usb wireless adapter in the audioPC. Again in full OS mode it works great with RDC. I can play unattended and have complete funtionality with the controlPC (a laptop) However, in minimized mode, keeping the LAN Service/Persist and RDC connection checked in XX, as well as unchecking Stop All Services, I loose wireless connectivity. Sure would be nice in the next version if that could be sorted out. 

So today I played around with an RDC connection. To set it up I went into full OS mode. Everything worked very well; both the musicPC and the ControlPC were connected to my LAN via wireless. However, when I minimized the OS via XXHighend, I could not get the wireless to work on the MusicPC. When I was in full OS mode I unchecked "Stop Remaining Services" and "Stop All Services."  I checked "Keep LAN Services," "Keep WiFi-Direct services," and "Use Remote Desktop." Then I went into minimise OS mode and lost all wireless connectivity. In minimised I went into the "Network Center" and it said that "Network List Service" was turned off. When I hit the button to turn it on I got "The Dependncy Service or Group Failed to Start." Any suggestions?

So I'm a bit late to this party but cannot help "piling on" with a few thoughts too. I've had the NOS1a for 9 days. After letting it burn in with the Blaxius 24/7, I finally sat down yesterday,day 8, for about 7 mesmerizing hours. First impressions: it's a completely new sound. The bass and mids have dramatically improved. They now have a presence and accuracy that gives vocals a full "body," head to toe, instead of just being  "talking heads." Related to that full body sound, I think, is the shift in focus from separate, clearly defined sound sources, instruments and vocals, to the space in which those sources of sound emerge. To me this is what makes the sound so new and fantastic: one hears, primarily, the music as an event which occurs in space, while keeping all the detail and separation of instruments one previously heard. And its the hearing or presence of that "space," as the primary experience,  that makes everything seem to take on the quality of a live recording. Also related to this experience is that one doesn't just hear the music but one also feels it too. Ever been to a live event and sat close enough to the musicians that your entire body resonates or feels as well as hears the music? That's what I mean. With the NOS1 I could get that occasionally, but always playing on the edge of too loud. Now that "feeling" is the norm and it occurs in a range of volume levels--from not quite loud enough to a bit too loud. Really mind-blowing.

One last thing, which I think is also related. My man-cave/music room is on the third floor of our home. There is a door that separates the stairway from the second to the third floor, as well as a door to the music room. There are water pipes for the heating system that run from the basement, through a corner of the living-room where we watch TV, to the radiator in the third floor music room. Previously, with both of the described doors closed, I was never able to burn in new stuff, cables, DAC upgrades, etc, at my preferred volume levels and watch TV on the first floor at the same time. Though you could barley hear the music, the sound of the TV would make the sound of the music imperceptible, there would always be an occasional stray blast of some frequency, usually bass, that made TV watching annoying to my wife. So I'd have to burn in at lower levels than I wanted. This past week, during the day, (my wife works from home) I've let the music play at full volume all day till bedtime. Not once has my wife complained! No occasional stray resonances or sound that distracted her. At all times the music, from the first floor, just remains barley perceptible and totally unnoticable when the TV is on. Very strange when one would assume that the explanation for this is that there must be less bass when, in fact, there's more bass than ever before.

Okay, enough for now. More to come regarding Blaxius, XXsettings and high RES.

Thanks Peter. Incredible achievement.

Brian

And Ya'll thought I was  crazy.....   Anyway, here are a few more pictures. In the first picture ( I hope its first) are the various footers I've settled on. Moving left to right, the first footer is cork/rubber and four of them are under the PC power supply, which is outside the case, the next are little gizmos that were $25 for three from China and three of them sit under the spinning HD- also outside the case, the next are Daruma3-II (no longer sold) and the are under the NOS1 next to Peters little rubber pads, and the last is a Stillpoint Ultra Mini (see: http://www.stillpoints.us/). They are pricey (around $300 for three). I have three of them under Berts amp, 3 under the PC and three under the granite slab that the PC power supply and hardrive sit on. (Okay, now you can call me crazy again.) The Stillpoints absolutely transformed the sound in my room.

In the second photo you can see that I have the DAC and amp on 3" thick maple blocks (Timbernation.com). The blocks have 4 attached brass cones that pierce the carpet and rest on the floorboards.

Regarding the footers I have tried all possible combinations, including rubber vibrapads, not shown. The cork/rubber I consider my soft ones. They did not sound good under the PC or the DAC, both of which preferred the hard Ultra Mini and Daruma III's respectively. Interestingly the DAC sounded terrible with the Ultra minis.

Off course, all of my testing was unscientific, trial and error---Peter's worst nightmare. But, in the end, the sound in my room is really pretty incredible.

One last thing. The round "thing" on the DAC is a 5 lb granite skull my brother got me for Christmas one year. It helps too!

The development gift that keeps giving. Thank you Peter & Co! Merry Christmas to all and New Years blessings too.

Brian

Tissue box is simply a convenient cable riser that came with the upside down juice pitcher in a special AudiogoN auction. 

Of course we're all crazy, that's why we hang out with you! 

Bit off topic, but seeing the guts of my PC is standard here. Putting the PS and HD outside the case on vibration damping footers provided a nice boost to SQ:

Hey Joachim, glad to hear another great report about the Blaxius. Just wondering if you switched to bnc connectors on your amps and NOS1a or was this initial test with adapters? If with adapters then you should get another bump up in SQ with bnc connectors?!?

Hi Peter, are your bios settings the same as posted here:
http://www.phasure.com/index.php?topic=2882.msg30369#msg30369

Thanks.

Brian