Ya, I'm looking forward to the blending of a dac with xxhe... I need to start saving some money up.  I'm very happy with XXHE 09-X7 ver.  Been playing around with double on xxhe just for fun ...
and I found a brand new PS Audio Premier for a too good price to pass up: I have one already for my front end (dac/xover/fireface), minus the computer...
so,
I'm going to dedicate this new Premier to the computer and external HDDs.
k,
now I'm just kinda rambling here, because everything is so hunky dory and working well that no one has anything to say about xxhe ...

peter
In the new version coming out, did you say you made xxhe have the ability [chk box] to just display the front cover [folder.jpg] automatically, but only if there is no back cover [back.jpg]? ... rather than generating a mirror of folder.jpg and track a song list?

EDIOT
hmm I stand corrected.  I was just checking scrolling speed differences between scrolling through the galleries on the SSD and scrolling through large folders with WAV files on my external HDDs and they both seem to scroll at the same speed.  I thought for sure I'd found a difference before?  Something change? or did I just get a wrong idea in my head? anyway...

[[[Old (and in the way)]]]
What am I missing here?  When I look through my gallery (on the SSD) under the library tab, I can scroll through this faster than when I look through the actual files on my external HDD under the library tab.

[[[this is still true]]]
Anyway, ya, SQ, when I last checked, was better with the SSD as my C:/ drive.

My biggest wait time is after I double click an album in my gallery, I have to wait awhile for my external drive to wake up ... which I see as a good thing since I want my external HDDs (with the actual wav files) to go to sleep quickly and stay that way until I select another album.  No spinning up with the SSD so, it's always instant access.

I've had an opticis plus battery psu lying around the house for awhile now.  I tried it when I was running usb straight to the Stello DAC.  I didn't care for it as much as just running a meter of usb cable that I found better than others I'd tried.  Only reason I've held onto the opticis is to maybe use with a computer HT I keep thinking about (just use a ps3 atm).  Now I have the FF800 and using its spdif out to the stello, much better than usb (and ya, I tried all the different usb ports on the comp).  USB at least into the Stello, just didn't work for me.  I've heard a system with the Wavlength Silver Crimson using the opticis that was awesome... but it had a lot of other things going on we'd have to factor in.

hehe Thought a couple of you on here might want to know,,, I'm going to see Elvis sing Led Zepplin songs to a reggae beat... tomorrow in concert.  Should be a hoot!  I'll compare the live to the stereo/xxhe.
http://www.bellyup.com/

A lot of us feel there is a decent SQ upgrade to going SSD.
Here's what I wrote awhile ago.
http://www.phasure.com/index.php?topic=618.msg4500#msg4500

Keep in mind, creating Galleries is not moving the actual wav (and it's big size), just a reference to where the wav is.

Once you have your wav/music file folders set up how you want, creating the commiserate gallery for them doesn't take any real time.  Just the time to organize how you want?  If everything is a mishmash of music on your wav/music files, then ya, the organization of your galleries will take long ... noobie rippers take heed, organize right from the start.

My two cents is:
People that are into some of the xp programs like cplay go minimum sys requirements,,, I'm not sure, but I kinda felt like going the opposite direction, and with xxhe, I haven't been disappointed.  I have always dedicated the machine I was using to the music program I was using, and I think have had less trouble than others because of it, (from winamp, foobar, cplay, XXHE).  I started with a laptop that had 512MB of ram which played early versions of XXHE on XP 16/44.1.  Later I went to Vista on that laptop and upped ram to 2GB.  Now I have what you see in my sig and I couldn't be happier... wait, hmmm hehehe But Peter what have you done for me lately... heheh make me happier.

I don't trust jitter specs at all and I wonder if lower is always better, or if they're measuring in one place and ignoring another,,,, perhaps the right kind of system sympathetic jitter would be best, I don't know, but... careful of the number pushers all.

ya, you would think so.  This is a "nobody really gets the voodoo going on here thing" ... but some have found, that if you first copy to the SSD/main drive and then it loads in memory ...sigh.... it sounds better? go figure.

or maybe, by copying, it doesn't have to keep waking up your external hdd to get individual files? was that it?

I think I'll use this thread to ask for...
Peter,
If I don't have a "Back" .jpg, could I get a tic box to not have you generate a mirror image of the folder.jpg and display song titles?; just want it to show a front cover like was done before you added the back cover? ...don't ask me why, I don't want to look too crazy here ...

It 'shouldn't" matter anymore with the way xxhe does things (putting music in ram before playing...), but I'd be a bit worried about affecting XXHE player/eng (even affecting smooth OS operation? hehe naw, but... hehe) with stuffing too much on the OS/XXHE disc ... dunno why though hehe fragmenting? reaching the main HDD capcity limit and causing problems there? VOODOO?  I'd just have OS and XXHE on the main drive, music files on external drives via firewire (all usb off), and back up on HDDs that I pull in/out of the computer as I rip/backup myself. I tick 'Copy to XX Drive' and music is then copied to OS/XXHE Solid State Drive temporarily and then auto erased by XXHE, and then I play unattended.

ok now I'm   
so maybe there will be an XVR1 on the used market sometime?
volume to be uploaded to dac too? with multi analog outputs? hmm

The XVR1 is what I've used for a few years now as a xover, and until Peter finally got the volume control in XXHE (omg happy day that was) it was also my preamp!  Imagine having to change 4 volume knobs every time you wanted to change vol... hehe.  I got pretty good with it but, thank goodness Peter pulled off fairly small volume steps; I'd sure hate to go back.  The XVR1 is remarkably flexible in xover settings (have to change jumpers inside) for an analog xover... I don't know if there's anything like it. (I'll have to peak inside to remember what my settings are... it took me about a year to zero in what settings I like).  Being an 'insider' at the time I got it for $2500.  I was told it was made mainly for speaker designers to zero in on what xover settings they'd like to build with parts.  I've thought about the audiolense stuff that pedal uses...I do have a Fireface 800 which would do the trick, but,,, I do fear running any extra stuff/programs on the computer/transport.  Seems like every thing going on in my computer makes a difference (guys w/ FF, sorry, but shut off the mixer when playing back music).  The XVR1 is great for now; maybe the future/Peter holds the key for a digital xover (how bout xxhe on one computer and a xover on another??? eheheh).
Sounds like I could use some Brain Salad Surgery eh?

hehe ok
try 4 26 26 0 0 too gl.  for me, 4 30 30 0 0 doesn't sound as good... at least for now.

Ya, maybe I've added more albums already than I thought... but just under 30gb (especially the way I've been starting to scan whole cd inserts hehe) may be what it will be like this summer.

Just got done listening to 96/24 Kinks - Soap Opera with a friend heh jaws were a dropping; That and some 88.1/24 BSO recordings.  pretty nice stuff some of this hirez

here, is this topic related... no drop outs here.