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 51 
 on: December 28, 2023, 04:14:47 am 
Started by briefremarks - Last post by briefremarks
All,

A quick note to wish everyone on this forum all goodness in the soon to be year ahead.  I've been organizing the house after Christmas, including audio gear.  It's quite a revelation to see how the journey with Phasure has evolved.  There is absolutely no one else out there that offers nearly the kind of model Peter has--constant upgrades and innovation, and the best price/performance products on the market.  Correction: the best products at any price.  Special gratitude to Peter and family.  It's been quite a year of transition for me from running a company on the NYSE to getting back to entrepreneurial projects.  The forum is quiet these days, so I hope everyone is well.

Happy New Year soon, and hopefully a little more interaction on this forum again,

Ramesh

 52 
 on: September 18, 2023, 02:25:59 am 
Started by briefremarks - Last post by briefremarks
Just found a note from Bert.  The pair marked with a red sleeve are for the outer terminal, which are the connectors for the mid-range

 53 
 on: September 18, 2023, 01:57:57 am 
Started by briefremarks - Last post by briefremarks
Just reassembled the Orelo speakers after some work on the house.  Now I cannot remember how the BMS drivers are wired.  There are two pairs of wires coming out of the woofer section to wire the horns.  One pair has a red sleeve to mark this pair.  Does the pair with the red sleeve go to the outer terminals on the BMS driver or the inner terminals.  I have the pair going to the outer terminals but do not want to try until I can confirm.  Also are the outer terminals the mid-range, and the inner ones the tweeter?

Thanks for the help.

 54 
 on: August 28, 2023, 02:32:16 pm 
Started by PeterSt - Last post by PeterSt
Hey Richard !
If you got married ... then I hope you didn't need to sell your boat. ;-)

There is a (slow) work in progress regarding Tidal. But as how it is now, it is not really possible to integrate it with XXHighEnd. But see the post from Rudolf above; that brings something at least.

Kind regards,
Peter

 55 
 on: August 27, 2023, 11:52:11 am 
Started by PeterSt - Last post by Rmalits
Hi Peter,

I am back here again after doing other stuff like building a new house, getting married, …
I was not happy with the sound in my new music room, but I fixed it now and enjoying again listening with my Phasure system.

Today I tried to login into Tidal, but the login failed. Could this Tidal issue be fixed?
Do I maybe need a updrade of XXHE to be able to login into Tidal?
Anyway I would like to install a new XXHE version on my new laptop especially for downloading from Tidal.

Kind regards
Richard

 56 
 on: August 21, 2023, 07:48:54 pm 
Started by coliny - Last post by PeterSt
I think there is interpretation involved as well.

As I have a kind of proved (kind of !) that all can be done on ad-hoc basis by Tidal, they could execute the MQA "folding" just the same. But now it all depends on the Tidal "download app" which a. downloads and b. interprets what to do with it (example : MQA).

My own conclusions so far in this topic could be wrong just the same. We must really throw some IQ/reasoning at it.

 57 
 on: August 20, 2023, 10:04:13 am 
Started by coliny - Last post by coliny
Album Sample Rate data in revised spreadsheet attached.

I am cautious to draw conclusions because it is not clear to me yet whether the Tidal App see different files than 3rd party apps such as Volumio and XXHE.

My data does suggest that Patricia Barber/Cliques is still MQA with the Tidal App (but this could change at any time).

The only thing that is consistent for all the other albums in the spreadsheet would be if Tidal is seeing different files now, otherwise how or why has the Emotional Oranges album gone from 44K to 48K, if Tidal App is upsampling would it not have gone to 88K.

Colin


 58 
 on: August 17, 2023, 09:37:26 am 
Started by coliny - Last post by coliny
The data I published in this post was misleading.

The Tidal PC App with Exclusive Mode OFF plays at whatever sample rate is set as Default in Windows Audio Device settings (ie Windows does the sample rate conversion) see attached. Therefore Sample Rates from Tidal App will only mean something With Exclusive Mode ON.

Will re publish my album sample rate data in a new post.


Colin

 59 
 on: August 16, 2023, 06:18:12 pm 
Started by coliny - Last post by PeterSt
Hey George, thank you !

For others : what you see below I still had on-screen, so yes, indeed that.

... But I may miss the point of what you are trying to bring across ...

In any event the files as how they will be on your HDD do not contain the data to "be" HiRes. Look at the files sizes in my previous post. The top part of the two lists is close to twice the size of the bottom part; the bottom part is just 16/44.1 (the top part 24/48).
For more reference below a screenshot of a "local" genuine album in FLAC with slightly worse FLAC compression.

So, despite of what you wanted to bring across, I see that the Tidal app upsamples just as the MQA prescription has been (thus not only for Roon and Hardware, but also for the Tidal app itself).

We are all hoaxed, and it is my estimate that some pay extra for that as well (my subscription still costs 19,99 for "Hires").

Super thanks !
Peter

 60 
 on: August 16, 2023, 03:52:47 pm 
Started by coliny - Last post by nik.d
Hi Peter,

I have a small USB dac, 'Light Harmonic GeekOut' 32/384 capable playing music through Tidal desktop app. Was confused to see 'Max' files playing at 48000 sampling rate. Today opened 'More settings' on chosen output device (GeekOut), activated 'Exclusive mode' and beside highly shifted volume slider I've got 96000 sampling rate. That was with Paul Simon's a/m album and same with Stevie Wonder's one.

Since I have no MQA capable hardware, I've reached SW sampling rate limit and this is how Tidal team 'hides' it. DAC's driver shows only sr, not bit depth unfortunately. Again, beware of sudden very high volume increase!

George

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