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136  Ultimate Audio Playback / Chatter and forum related stuff / Re: Gainclone heaven ? on: July 03, 2013, 01:28:12 am
Book was collection of ideas & examples on building tube audio pre/power amplifiers, with god examples of various 'schools'.
One of rare books well written in local language. His 6L6 integrated was positively reviewed by Jean Hiraga in (think) 'Revue
Du Son'. Had cooperation w/ 'Teresonic' as well. And above all, loved motorboats and Danube river.
Some pic from his book presentation
137  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: RAMDisk disappears while going into MinOS on: July 02, 2013, 10:28:49 pm
Hi Coen,

Nice finding. I'm using 'Primo Ramdisk'. With IMDisk another utility - 'Rawcopy' is needed to keep RAMdisk(s) content
over PC restarts. Task Manager is not running in minOS for process automation so I went 'easier way' Happy
 
Brds,
George

Edit: 
Oups, Task Scheduler IOF Task Manager Happy
138  Ultimate Audio Playback / Chatter and forum related stuff / Re: Gainclone heaven ? on: July 02, 2013, 10:09:18 pm
Nick hi,

Yes, am looking for good input cap. Reading nice things on ClarityCap MR series PP's but guess what: seems I'l be able to get few
BG-NX 22uF/6,3V caps as well. Seems my old friend (passed away last Summer) left behind him some good audio parts, not only
couple of unfinished GM70 power amps. His book was (still is) nice reading on tube audio gear.

Brgds,
George
139  Ultimate Audio Playback / Chatter and forum related stuff / Re: Gainclone heaven ? on: July 01, 2013, 09:56:34 pm
Nik.d hi,
Interesting looking boards, how is your build coming along ?
Regards,
Nick.

Hi Nick

Sorry for late reply, spent 'long weekend' on Danube river with friends. A nice one. I'm a bit slow, actually wanted somewhat better basic components and ordered
(and finally received) Bayschlag 0.1% resistors and some Roederstein elcos. Transformers are ready. Need only good 4.7 uF polyprop cap and final decision: to build
separate cases or one as dual mono. This because I already use two sub (plate) amps. Adding separates near mid/hi section would eliminate long speaker cables.
Old dilemma: long spkr cables or long IC's... Esp. when amp is constructed to minimize (spkr) cable influence Happy

Brgds,
George
140  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: RAMDisk disappears while going into MinOS on: June 28, 2013, 03:31:44 pm
@stanrey

Stanley, there is ImDisk Toolkit with which you 'll be able to load RAMdisk at computer startup.
Link: http://reboot.pro/files/file/284-imdisk-toolkit/

However I could not make it load two disks - similar to Dataram's (RAMdisk) free software limitation(s).

Simple solution to that: Install & run both apps Happy
Dataram's app needs be installed while in full OS.

There's no need keeping content (creating disk image) of Playback drive - it's content is emptied while exiting XXHE.

Suggestion:
As IMdisk is regarded 'better' or simply faster than Dataram's one, use Dataram's RAMdisk for XXHE and XXData folders
and ImDisk for 'Playback disk' role. Back in 2011 it was advised to format this disk w/ smallest cluster - 0,5KB NTFS.

George
141  Ultimate Audio Playback / Chatter and forum related stuff / Re: Gainclone heaven ? on: June 03, 2013, 09:18:26 am
Here comes another "Gainclone". Seen on the photo are basic building blocks of bridged LM3886 amp.
Interesting (domestic) project using 'External Feedback' like it is used in any (serious) measurement instrument.
With this concept, speaker cable influence on sound is diminished. Another advantage would be using such an amp
with servo controlled woofer(s) - there are few on the market today.

142  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: Monitor shuts down on: March 17, 2013, 07:43:48 pm
Carsten,

I remember this situation while repairing friend's laptop. At power options for laptop there was separate screen/window for monitor brightness and dim
while on battery pwr supply. Remember I could not move this "screen brightness" slider at all, windows content was hardly visible after one minute,
all was dark almost like monitor is turned off. Re-check monitor pwr settings, put them on max, if there is dim option turn it off. All before going to min OS.
HTH.

George
143  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: 0.9z-8-3 Error on: March 15, 2013, 09:57:54 am
Same error here.
Screenshot for Peter:
 


144  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: Playback stopped because data didn`t arrived in time on: February 28, 2013, 11:30:17 pm
@Diede
You are running music from USB disks. Please try and change computer power plan into this:

Control Panel / Power Options
Down arrow on right side: Show additional plans
Choose High performance / Change plan settings / Change advanced power settings
Hard disk: Turn off hard disk after: '20 Minutes'
(default, it should be OK for most but classical music with longer pieces)

One more power plan change:
 USB Settings/USB Selective suspend setting: 'Disabled' 
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HTH
George
145  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Song title truncated if dot (.) exists on: February 27, 2013, 07:46:41 pm
Hi Peter,

One more "ToDo" for next version:

Wallpaper left 'frame': If song title contains dot (.) text after dot is not shown. Narrow, bottom stripe shows full title.
Know this was OK few versions back and actually three dots were "allowed" in title (before file extension dot)

drinks


146  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: Playback stopped because data didn`t arrived in time on: February 27, 2013, 12:46:00 pm
I have seen subject message only twice until now and think it is PC power settings related, HDD power settings to be more precise.

Both cases: selected (some) album for playback but did not started playback immediately, due to phone call (today) or other reason (cannot remember
first time, could be typing some mail). Pressing 'Play' button after several minutes resulted with no music but above message. Wallpaper was
shown OK (playing unattended & min OS)

147  Ultimate Audio Playback / Your thoughts about the Sound Quality / Re: My first Windows 8 experience on: February 05, 2013, 01:31:34 am
OK, annoying (& loud) startup sound solved - with brute force  smile

Booted into Ubuntu (Live CD) went into Windows directory and simply renamed two wav files 'Windows Logon.wav'.
Perhaps it's enough to rename first file only (found in :\Windows\Media sub-dir) but it's time to install XXHE, not booting Linux twice Happy
Second file was found in foll dir:
:\Windows\WinSxS\amd64_microsoft-windows-shell-sounds_31bf3856ad364e35_6.2.9200.16384_none_6fdc23973f4dcd1e

drinks
148  Ultimate Audio Playback / Your thoughts about the Sound Quality / Re: My first Windows 8 experience on: February 05, 2013, 12:25:32 am
@mani

Just now finished fresh Win8 installation, have found the source of 'problem' with always active Win Startup Sound:
It's Windows 7 Explorer for Win8. Don't know if question/message about this to Tihiy (Ex7forW8 author) would help?

Now thinking of booting PC w/ Linux live CD and deleting original wave file(s) or editing them into silence? scratching
There are two instances under \Media folder, both protected system files.

Reporting further.



 
149  Ultimate Audio Playback / Your thoughts about the Sound Quality / Re: My first Windows 8 experience on: February 04, 2013, 12:47:28 pm
@mani (manisandher)

Win8 Startup Sound - it seems this is some kind of 'bug' in Win8 or perhaps some (hidden) administrator account can really disable it.
I did same as Peter did, in my case just defined motherboard's S/PDIF out as my default audio device - never used/connected of course.

In your case it's not right solution, perhaps this will do the job:
http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/6cde20/turn-off-windows-startup-sound-in-windows-8/

Will try it myself later today, first need to replace OS HDD, found several bad sectors developed on it unhappy

Brgds,
George
150  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: XXHE 0.9z-8-1: Win7 taskbar not returning (after quitting unattended play) on: January 20, 2013, 01:22:13 pm
That was fast. Thank you Peter, all OK now.

... Sh*t.
Smack ! And how many times I have to repeat: it is not Schiit, I'm proud owner of Phasure NOS1 !!! rofl

Coverart - below is the original (kB & pixel size) 'folder.jpg' that XXHE didn't like to convert to wallpaper. Have noticed in
several previous XXHE versions, could be even z6, but thought it's related to my older&cheap but passive graphic card...

BTW: give a listen to below album. At least in lazy Sunday afternoon...

drinks

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