HI Mani,

On my system (with various settings) the soundstage is very weird. I hear a "ball" in the Center and attached the left and right speakers, very incoherent.
Micheal Bubles voice has a width of 2 meters, even if I sit in the sweet spot.

Joachim

Thank you Boleary,

with SFS 2 I'm back in business and the Magic is there again.

Joachim

Yes, still in Attended

With the same settings I do hear on my system a mono effect. The stage is gone. The Instruments are concentrated more to the Center.

The bass on Wynton Marsalis - Sunflower - was on the left side and is now in the center.

I will try Mani's Settings

Joachim

It took a while to change from y to r. It was not immediatly.

Joachim

Hi Mani,

on my W8 registered XXH the coverart border changed from yellow to red.

Joachim
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Hi Peter,
I 'm back (dual boot) to W7 and listening with the same settings as used to.
A good reference song with left/right separations is the  "Tsunami Song" played by Kenny Garrett. Right side an Erhu, center piano, left a violin. On both sides the location of instruments is just near the speakers. Instruments have a normal physical size. SQ is warm without harshness.

With W8 the instruments moved more to the center and the physical size of the instruments seems to be bigger as normal.

 The reg. code applied for W7 in late December is not working and I have to .... a new one.

Now I'm going back to W8, check the driver setting and play XXH wit the identical settings.

Speakers (no horns) see my sign.

Joachim

This is Peters square.
I installed W8 on my laptop last year, and there are lot of updates installed in automatic mode, at least 20.

I would say no, but wait for Peter

Joachim

It is not the harsh sound, in some kind I like it. The astonishing thing is, the room image is gone on my system, and the difference with 16x and 1x upsampling.
I'm just installing W7 for dual boot and will compare.

Joachim

It was the first immediate impression. The room image is much smaller in width. (George Michael - Songs from the last century) The music is nearly mono with 16x, with the native sample rate 1x the room image improves.
The overall SQ is more aggressive, harsh, bass is more present (in concerts you do not hear that much bass). The sweetness/resinous of the violins is gone. (Rachel Z - The Trail of her blood in the snow)

I'm not quite sure if it improves with changes of my settings. I do not use PA (the components are all in phase)

Joachim

Playing music with the W7 shell.

There is a mono effect, as mentioned by Peter, which is less when oversampling is not engaged.(44100 native sound)

Back to W7?

Joachim

P.S. The overall sound is more agressive, perfect for Rock (Blind Faith  - Ginger Bakers drum solo in "Do what you like)

The program for the  "W7 shell" installation for W8 works within the identical language only.
But you can change the language in W8 by installing the appropriate package. (Dutch / English)

Joachim

Hi Peter,

thanx for the answer. It is possible with W8 to change the language now.

I  try to install the  W7 shell and hope that the new activation code will still work.

Joachim

Hi Alain,

No. This should be a challenge for Peter, if possible.

It is for normal listeners a bit to complicated to install the W7 shell. I will get problems because W7 and W8 differs with the language. Or, Peter, is it sufficient/successful to install at W8 the identical language?

Joachim

Hi Mani,

press Windows button + D on the keyboard and you are ...... .

I'm just installing XXH without W7 shell and will write the outcome later.

Joachim