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on: January 06, 2011, 09:52:51 am
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Hey Brian, Long time... ...and welcome to the club! ... I've been following the XXHighEnd and NOS1 development since Bert kicked Peter off his forum Yep, for everything there is a place and here it IS the perfect spot for Peter's XXHighend and DAC developments... Cheers, Bert
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Ultimate Audio Playback / Chatter and forum related stuff / Re: Long time...
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on: December 30, 2010, 03:39:17 pm
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Nice to have you back Bert!
Thanks Eric... It was you who inspired me to take my first steps on the path of Computer Based music reproduction.
Glad to learn that you did not regret it after a while... I am still gratefull for that. Hope to meet you soon in your Listening Factory!
You're very much welcome! CU Bert
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on: December 30, 2010, 02:24:09 pm
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... since I have been active on this forum (besides lurking). 27th of May 2007 (almost three years back!) O well, it took Peter this long to create his own DAC (Congrats Peter!) and I thought that this would be a nice time to go public and share some experiences. Not here though, this post is just to get the feeling of this forum. First I have to figure out XXHighend as player...hardly an easy task for a novice like me. I did manage (took me 2 days!!!) to adapt all settings into the player though (including RAMDisk and Juli@) almost similar to Peters settings so now I can start listening for real and see where things will be heading from there... At this moment I am finally listening to a very nice "Glitchless" sound... and it sounds familiar! More later... Bert
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Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: Want a good laugh ?
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on: November 24, 2007, 08:27:12 am
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Hi Peter,
It is almost as if Vista has a mind of its own....and apparently becoming depressed by all the people telling that Vista is lousy.
Now it seems that it is suicidal in a way shutting down one application after another?
Scary...let's hope that defence is not using Vista as OS as it will then turn into World War III
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Ultimate Audio Playback / Your thoughts about the Sound Quality / Re: The end of XXHighEnd ?
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on: November 18, 2007, 07:18:52 pm
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It took some longer than expected (isn't that always ?). Now I have the new player but I can't play with it! At this moment the PC is making a backup (through FW800) needed to have some speed while making a 2TB backup (only works under XP). Still, it will take another 6 hours to finish and then I will be gone to bed... Vista can't run at the same time and that is needed to tryout the new player! Oh well, there is tomorrow... Bert
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Ultimate Audio Playback / Your thoughts about the Sound Quality / Re: Prepare for Christmas
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on: October 16, 2007, 01:12:30 pm
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So remember, no problems, just experimenting, and what I hear I like. And that's subjective ...
Okay, points taken. Sorry for bothering you with my "logical" way of thinking on the subject. The tweak just does not work out for me... Enjoy your experiments from which I am sure something logical (to me) and benifical (to all) will arise from it in the future. Bert
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Ultimate Audio Playback / Your thoughts about the Sound Quality / Re: Prepare for Christmas
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on: October 15, 2007, 10:02:46 am
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Yes Bert, I know. There is *no* logic to this, except then for what I said. I could be very much wrong, but since I cope with this for such a rather long time ... Perhaps more on topic but does CD Emphasis/De-emphasis has to do anything with this? My transport has this automatic switch on board, my PC hasn't... Or something else might be wrong in your system or listening environment compared to most people. Perhaps the total room response is on the dull side as you have a huge and highly dampened listening room. What works for you in a specific situation might work the opposite in other situations. More highs at my place does not work at all...things get sharp and overly expressed. This sound remembers me of some speakers created in Germany, very much the opposite as the English speakers from those days.... Bert
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Ultimate Audio Playback / Your thoughts about the Sound Quality / Re: Prepare for Christmas
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on: October 14, 2007, 08:45:16 pm
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Peter,
Did you ever thought about the quality of the recordings made in those days?
Microphones with limited high frequency response, old tapes limiting the same, etc. would already indicate a strong roll-off in the high frequencies and THAT is part of the reason why they sound "old"...
I surely believe that such recordings need an EQ (RIAA but then only for high frequencies) but to optimise a speaker for old recordings hardly being a reference seems odd to me...
Bert
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