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Ultimate Audio Playback / Your thoughts about the Sound Quality / Re: Does buffering time (latency) affact SQ in your system?
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on: November 29, 2010, 07:31:23 pm
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I haven't heard of properly configured XXHighEnd system myself but just opinions from other people. I realized how foolish to mixed up my judgement with others before hearing ones for myself and feel ashamed to it. To prevent any further misconduct, I won't give anymore remarks on XXHighEnd or anything that could relate to it until I can hear properly configured ones with my own ears.
Hello Mr. X, where is the next bar? best Joachim |
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Ultimate Audio Playback / Your thoughts about the Sound Quality / Re: Does buffering time (latency) affact SQ in your system?
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on: November 29, 2010, 03:55:55 pm
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4. I'm now aware that your ears aren't adapted into real hiend system.....yet. This happened to me a lot before taking real hiend system seriously up to purchasing $60-70k system in home and listen to it allmost all days of everyday. Any discussion between us is futile until you really understand the capability of $15k CD transport,DAC,clock combined together for $45k for just source system alone.
Hi, you should have a look to your arguments from a different angle. We have to invest at least $45k to get a similar SQ, so the return on investment is ............... , or you have unlimited access to the Bank of America. best Joachim |
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Ultimate Audio Playback / Your thoughts about the Sound Quality / Re: 9-Z3
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on: October 26, 2010, 08:32:15 pm
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Hmm ... strange. I would say the mid just got (much) better. But then I may be used to "something" for several months already ? (meaning something quite different from SFS stuff).
Hi Peter, you have the great advantage to listen with the NOS1 and we are all playing music on total different systems, so everybody has to evaluate the SQ with his previous settings. SFS works best at 25 on my system, very fast response. 180 is very smooth. (engine 3, schema 3, Player prio: normal, Thread prio: realtime, Q1=5, others at zero. Firewire connection) All in all: best sound I've ever had on my system. Joachim |
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Ultimate Audio Playback / Your thoughts about the Sound Quality / Re: We all fell in the W7 pitfall
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on: October 06, 2010, 11:29:20 pm
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On this last matter, it may be nice to know that the couple of crazies I'm with here (Telstar and Roy) thought to grab the opportunity and complain about each and every single note that sounds wrong in their eyes (ears). Now, with Vista/RAMDisk this didn't happen for the 6 hours we are continuously playing today.
my impression with VISTA / 4GB RAM disc is: - more speed - more resolution in the heights, which is phenomenal - more darkness betweeen the instruments - clinical SQ disadvantages - less soundstage - missing analogue SQ -too much darkness betweeen the instruments with "Studio music" replay ; live music sounds good (Rippingtons "Live in L.A.) -missing reverberant sound at bass drums and bass guitars I'm quite not shure what I like more. Best Joachim |
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Ultimate Audio Playback / Your thoughts about the Sound Quality / Re: We all fell in the W7 pitfall
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on: October 03, 2010, 03:38:10 pm
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I suggest we start another topic on system optimisations - one for software and other for hardware side.
Hi Marcin, that is a good idea.  My PC is connectrd via Firewire to the DAC (Weiss Minerva) and I have no problem with the WEISS driver. (any W7 driver from other hardware vendors should work under VISTA too) But Firewire (and the Weiss Minerva) is not recommended by Peter, therefore I'm waiting since month for his NOS1.  Joachim |
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Ultimate Audio Playback / Your thoughts about the Sound Quality / Re: We all fell in the W7 pitfall
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on: October 03, 2010, 09:56:53 am
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I also have J River Media Center and I recently installed it on a Windows 7 machine and thought to myself, "boy this seems to sound better." I didn't do any in depth listening but just got the overall sense....
Hi Chris, on my system the SQ of the "J River Media Center" is very analytical, in overall it is ok, but there is a great lack with the room image. The music plays between the speakers only,the SQ has no 3D image with a higher SPL. XXH with engine#3 under VISTA is superior on a very high level. The holographic replay is stunning. best Joachim |
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Ultimate Audio Playback / Your thoughts about the Sound Quality / Re: We all fell in the W7 pitfall
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on: October 02, 2010, 12:43:32 pm
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Haha Joachim,
So, without that "challenge" that wouldn't have happened. Or not to the extend it has been done.
Hi Peter, that is correct. I heard for a longer time XXH with the KS adaptive mode (Q1=1, buffer 2048) and one hour ago I changed back to engine3 (Q1=5). IMO engine3 sounds still better than any KS mode. The instruments are more natural and have a smaller footprint, the room has more depth. My reference CD is from Christian Straube "Grand Cru". (the CD has a lot of acoustic guitars, bass, horns and cymbals) best Joachim |
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I sure hope that XX operates as well as it does now.
