Hi Peter,
......here some remarks about 09y-4. I'm listening via fronthorns. The sound is very direct and a lot of detaills. From the start of using 09y4 with the Quad Arc Prediction Upsampling I have the impression some tones/instruments are to much in front of the ears. Sometimes i have the impression that i hear a sort of resonance in instruments like trompet, vibraphone. When I switch off the quad Arc Pre the sound improves in a more relaxed sound. Less in front and no resonating sound in some instruments. I can't remember that I had the same experience in older versions of XX. I listen today to Mike Mainieri's (vibraphonist) An American Diary (great work!).

I do hear the qualities of the latest version of XX, detaills, a lot of space, quality of instruments........but I get a preference the last days to switch off double/quad Arc Prediction option. 

Johan

YES, its alway on. I don't like the sound of the external drive.

See Attachment

Difficult to reproduce this messages, but today all the messages for another cd:
"Music file does not exist" message
Application crash.

1 What i did was loading the playlist and play. After a few tracks pause and again a play command. I don't know if this is relevant.
2 At a certain moment i hear the external drive activated
3 small brake in the music but music keeps playing
4 after the second time I'll wait and switched the external drive off
5 music keeps playing, untill a fraction before it end's
6 message "Music file does not exist" This message disappears automatically within a couple of minutes.
7 XX stops
8 Application crash

Settings "Copy by XX drive standard", for me it is D: drive

See attachment all logfiles

I did not found them. I do a new attemp to create this situation this evening.
XX setting is always "copy to XX drive" I will check this.
I only work with normal .wav files

Hi Peter,

A lot of frustrations here...great sound.....disks spin-up....stuttering sound...spin-down..great sound........


Samsung Spinpoint drives got good testresults, special energyconsuming and 'soundlevel' So I only have samsung drives 500GB and 750GB. On another PC I hear the same sound Spinup, clicking sound, From the side of Samsung " All hard disk drives make some noise, usually during spin-up or spin-down cycle; this is normal " Other remark on Internet about the clicking sound: " ...it is the drive heads retracting into their parked position."

 

I have noticed 2 situations after the play command when all music is copied to the internal drive:
1 I switched the drives off during the first track, the music keeps playing;
2 After some tracks I hear the sound of the external drives. Switching the drives of results in a couple of times in "Music file does not  exist......" and once in an XXapplication crash.

See attachment for "Music file does not exist" message, inclusive the log files (I: is the external drive)

Is XX responsable for the external diskactivity during playback or Vista?
 

This evening again! After Four or five times every minute when this happens (music stutters for one second) I switched the external drive off resulting in an application crash. I'm not certain but i have the impression that this sometimes happens after 3 or 4 tracks.... It make's no difference when quad, arc prediction option is deselected.

Is it possible to create an option to switch off the extarnal drive(s) when "copy to drive" is selected and after a play command  and all was copied to the internal drive? Did I make an error by copying to the gallery or ....

I'm not the only one!  At least some problems with the disc's has been solved in XX by this Topic.

The computer is standing in the listeningroom so I hate computer noise or the spinup sound of the external drives inclusive the stuttering sound in this version. I'm using a fanless CPU cooling, so why keep the disc's running.

And when "copy files to XX-drive" is marked I'm expecting no disk activities from XX.

Last but not least, music is very important for me and XX is the best way to reproduce the music!

Regards

I have done this test several times and indeed music keeps playing and no strange tilde signs.

But in this last version (09y-4) I have on a regular base stuttering sound (fraction of a second). I have the impression that it always starts with external disk activity.

Today after the first cd i did hear again external disk activity. At a certain moment every minute. I decided to switch off the external disks. Music keeps playing untill I got a message in XX that the music could not find on H:.....the external drive!!!! This message disappeared automatically after 1 minute and xx stopped. But this prove for me that XX needs something from the external disk or....

In the last day's I have monitored all disk activities, system IO, active tasks, Services,....I thought I found the course a troijan hors responsable for the disk activities.....unfortunately that wasn't the cause. Problem still exists. Please help.....how to stop this irritation's
See attachment for settings.

After selecting in the library Herby Hancock, XX shows Henry Treadgill as a small picture and the tracks of the selected Herby Hancock album in the playlist. In unattended playback it shows the correct wallpaper of Herby Hancock.

Hi Peter,

Great work You have done so far. I have some remarks and a request about your development of world's best DAC:

In mine opinion this is a contradiction. World's best products are sadly enough not for everyone.

This is a league to high for me. Please make a second DAC the Poor Man's NOS DAC for about 700 euro's! Then there are more "everybody's". Great change that I will become a buyer.

Regards,
Johan

I have made the switch from DDDAC1543 to the Audiotrak HD2 soundcard with another opamps, to test all options in XX. I don't miss the battery charges for the DDDAC 1543.

http://www.phasure.com/index.php?topic=801.msg5936#msg5936

Playing unattended, switch external drive off, message, XX stopped, message gone. I will test it tomorrow again. What happens on your system when switching off the external disk during playback?

After some external disk activities during playback I have switched the drive off . After one ore two tracks XX stops playing with a message I missed. See attachments for the log files.

I'm using a AMD Athlon 64X2 Dual Processor 2.00 Ghz. Internal 2942 MB internal memory
 
Yes Yes......

I have new OCZ vertex 60GB Solid State Disk. Time I think to switch to Windows 7 and SSD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! New changes.

Hi Peter,

All external drives contains the music. So I can't leave them switched off.

I hear in the latest version of XX during music playback sometimes again this switching sound of the external drives.

I only did a test by switching them off to check the "copy to xx" functionality. Indeed music keeps playing. I did this test two tracks!

Music keeps playing. So it don't need these external drives during playback. Question what caused that diskacivity????

So in normal operation i need those external drives.