Dear Peter,

thank you for sharing your experience and opinion.

I completly agree with you!
For sure it is not as intended to "sound" a certain track into a specific direction. When the recording is not so good then also the playback should give you an idea accordingly about that.
I really have the same approach to test the different settings but I am more looking on the focus of voices and staging in general (width and depth).
And what you mentioned before, the commercial use to demonstrate a system:
Here you want to really perform each track at the utmost possible performance, which might be a little different from track to track.
Something which we have to consider in my situation is that the Trinity DAC can work at 176,4 or 192 without any digital filtering (see www.gte-audio.com).
This is a major difference to the other DACs I know.

One option which would be really convenient for me (maybe only me) is as follows:
If I have playlist with contain 44/16 and 192/24 files, it would be nice to define Quad and Arc Predition for 44/16 and no upsampling on 192/24.

But I have to really congretulate you. The sound quality is so awesome now with quad and arc prediction that I am really stunned.

Best regards

Rainer

Dear Fred,

my friend.

If you have any problems with xxhighend, I would be glad to support you as far as I can.

Just call me and I will give you some tipps.

Im my case (with the Trinity DAC) I run with quad upsampling and arc prediction.

Q1 in my case is set from -4 to +2 depending on the track I play.
The lower the Q1 the more the voices are in front, it is more analytical but also a bit more edge like with +2.

Play with Q2 and Q3 and listen to piano. Impact and secondary harmonics on that are really influenced.
I set Q2 and Q3 between the lowest level and mid (both Q2 and Q3 settings I used to be the same, when I change one I also change the other. I have to test more on this)

Peter, maybe a wish for the future:
Might there be a way that in the play list there would be a submenu on each tracks where you can define individual settings for each track (as an option to the general settings)

Best regards

Rainer Weber

Dear Peter,

I will for sure test 0.9y-4. The Trinity DAC is on the way back home by air (85 kg weight for the beast), but I will get another one (from Mr. Dietmar Bräuer,one of the owners of GTE Audio) next week.

I keep you informed about the performance, but you have made me very very curious about the sound.

By the way:
In y-3 i wasn´t able to double 96/24 files to 192 kHz. Is this now possible with y-4.

If you are in southern Germany (Bavaria) any time, I would be glad to welcome you to our show room.

Best regards and thanks again!

Rainer

Dear all,

thanks to the awesome XXHighend player our demonstration at the RMAF turned out to be very stunning.

Many people voted our room the best sound of the show.

Here is a link to the stereophile blog:

http://blog.stereophile.com/rmaf2009//index2.html

I want to thank all users of XXHighend who have been in our booth. I hope to meet you next year in Denver as well.


All the best


Rainer Weber

Hi Dave,

that is very good news that you come to Denver.
The devices are already on their way (by air) to Denver, so testing and evaluating is a bit hard.

Regarding the versions we use:
With our setup and (0.9-y2) there was not so harsh highs as some claimed; I prefered Q1 set in the range of 7-9.
Of course the RAAL sandwich ribbon and Duelund CAST caps help a lot against harsh highs.
Otherwise I can state that I have never heard any digital better than with this amazing software.
But for shure we will test y-3a in Denver before the show as well and then decide.
We are thinking also of a shoot out between foobar and xxhighend. Maybe this will be an interesting thing for the guests at RMAF.
For my opinion it was very convincing to use xxhighend. xxhighend vs foobar is like 24/96 against mp3.


Best regards

Rainer

Dear all,

first I would like to introduce myself:

My Name is Rainer Weber and I am the technical director of Kaiser Acoustics. (www.kaiser-acoustics.com)
Kaiser Acoustics manufactures the Kawero! speakers which some of you may have noted already.
This year we will exhibit at RMAF in Denver.
Our system will consist of
Fujitsu Siemens Amilo Notebook (1TB harddisk), Vista 32 bit
xxhighend 0.9y-2
Weiss Minerva (as Firewire Interface) (www.weiss.ch)
GTE Trinity DAC (the best DAC I have ever heard) (www.gte-audio.com)
Absolare Pure Preamp
Mastersound 845 Monoblock signature edition (with a lot of Black Gate NOS caps, Kondo Tantalum resistors and many more tweaks)
All cables are Echole Obsession (www.echole.com)
If anyone of the xxhighend community would like to stop by and say hello, I would be glad to welcome him.

Best regards

Rainer Weber