OK, but could you give me one advantage of playing 16bit track with DAC set at 32bits assuming that I don't use volume control, upsamling etc?

This is maybe stupid question, but I'm trying to understand what's going on. If the track is 16bit than other 16bits are just zeroes? What's good with that? For me it's just unnecessary processing for CPU.

Mani, could you explain why are you playng 16 bit track with 24, actually 32 bit setting? It's pointless IMHO and from my experience it sounds worse.

Folks, it seems that all of my previous combinations was WRONG. I tried different priorities to find the best sound, but neglected the split size setting. I thought that setting it high would be the best, well, it's NOT! Try it yourself. Quick comparison between 50 and 2000 MB would give you the 'image'. Small value is speed, speed and detail and nothing fatiguing about it, while 2000MB seems warmer at first, but it's just dull pulp where everything is hazy. I wonder how much is to discover...

Mani, XXHE indicates 24bit source file with your 16/44 track.

English please...

Downloading... I'm a fan of 16/44 rather than upsampled material, but native 24/176.4 is another thing. I'll get back here...

Yeah, I think about replacing my low-end Belkin cables with Vovox Initio. This is actually pro audio company, but has 2 series of 'audiophile' cables: Initio and, a lot more expensive, Textura. These cables were highly recommended by my colleague. He claim that Vovox (initio) is better than  Albedo Monolith, YP Sound Argentum, Mit Terminator, Tara Air 1, Shunyata Python, Anaconda and Lyra, Nordosth Vishnu and Kubala Sosna. Initio series is relatively cheap, but still - it will be almost 1K EUR for everything (IC, speaker, power cables and power socket). That's quite a sum especially that my system is worth about ~2,5K EUR. Is it worth it?

http://www.vovox.com/neu/content_e/03_02.html
http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue44/vovox.htm

Great! Let us know

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These plates are supposedly very effective and cheap...

I consider Schumann synchronizer, because I'm exposed to big amounts of EMI for 15 hours/day. I have a huge display (30") that is 50cm in front of me, 2 PCs and audio equipment. All of that in a small room (~10 square metres). I won't find out if it's any good if I won't try it.

Hi Guys,

Do you have any experiences with these devices?

http://www.6moons.com/audioreviews/acousticrevive/rr77.html
http://www.6moons.com/audioreviews/schumann3/schumann.html

The purpose is to eliminate/minimise EMI by emiting the frequency of 7.83Hz that is considered to be our planet's natural pulse.

Try it, try it...
As long as Player Priority stays at low, there are no glitches. I'm glad that am not the only one here changing the settings like socks :D

After a while I got tired of all that details coming from Special mode and ultra-low latency. I gave it up and went back to Adaptive and 4096 samples. And the most important thing - player priority: low, thread priority: nothing. This gives the best sound imho. Thread priority at realtime is definately more detailed, but if your system is highly transparent, it will give you fatigue instead of joy. I prefer fun

I was referring to your 'trick'. I can't imagine how could I set the driver to run at half of the speed, but I'd get my hands cut off if someone told me how to set it x2, because I can't play 48kHz and multiplier sample rates (49.152 clock instead of 22.5792 on my Cantatis). Peter, tell us how did you do it?

PS
Yes, I'm able to set the playback to 768kHz and it works, but 'in slow motion'. Isn't the driver suppose to run at double speed instead or am I confusing sth?

Hello Peter,

Long time no speak :D I've been busy and enjoying music - at last! What's worth mentioning: I gave up the idea of second, dedicated audio server, it was far from convenience. So, I decided to switch back to my regular, fast PC and install my Cantatis@ESI sound card inside. What the hell? Now it sounds better here and that's without ANY OS tweaks and undervolting/underclocking. You may say, that I've gone crazy, but now that I think about it, it makes sense. Why? Because I discovered the great ESI drivers/firmware on my old PC, which allowed me to run smooth playback with 1 sample latency. After going back to my new PC, superiority of motherboard and PSU quality and it seems that motherboard and PSU brought new, better quality - and I'm not talking about small differences. So folks, quality motherboard and PSU! This is the base of good pc audio. Of course, that is if your system depends on PCI/PCI-E or even USB (without external PSU) digital transport, so basically 95% of all available interfaces.

Peter, unfortunately I can't set fixed sample rate in my drivers control panel now, because it uses auto rate switching. However, it wasn't possible before AFAIR.

Cheers,
Marcin

PS
Somehow my activation code works on my new PC as well, yeaah. I thought, you were gonna kill me for asking again, but noooo 

Album-as-one-file -> cue -> album as multiple tracks-files

This way XXHE handles memory playback differently and I don't get to see 'OutOfMemory' errors.