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« Reply #15 on: June 03, 2013, 07:36:47 pm »

Agree too! (W8)

As an audiophile i feel very lucky to be with Peter on his journey.

Thanks Peter!



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« Reply #16 on: June 03, 2013, 08:13:33 pm »

Agree too! (W8)

As an audiophile i feel very lucky to be with Peter on his journey.

Thanks Peter!



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Hi Tore,

Do you like it more with W8 than with W7?

After readjusting my listening experiences with a CD-player for one week, I installed 09z-9b on the W7 PC. (Settings see sig)

This XXH release is the best ever.
The amazing sound of the cymbals are back.

Great Job Peter.

Agree. sounds good ! (w7 ultimate64bit)




Michel hi and welcome, have you tested it also in W8?

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« Reply #17 on: June 03, 2013, 09:52:16 pm »

Agree too! (W8)

As an audiophile i feel very lucky to be with Peter on his journey.

Thanks Peter!



Tore

Hi Tore,

Do you like it more with W8 than with W7?

After readjusting my listening experiences with a CD-player for one week, I installed 09z-9b on the W7 PC. (Settings see sig)

This XXH release is the best ever.
The amazing sound of the cymbals are back.

Great Job Peter.

Agree. sounds good ! (w7 ultimate64bit)




Michel hi and welcome, have you tested it also in W8?

Best regards,
Juan

Hello Juan.

Nope. Only w7. I wonder if i install w8 do i need a new activation?
I dont like w8 at all, but for te sake of SQ i do...

Best regards,
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« Reply #18 on: June 03, 2013, 10:57:40 pm »


Nope. Only w7. I wonder if i install w8 do i need a new activation?
I dont like w8 at all, but for te sake of SQ i do...

Best regards,
Michel

Hi Michel,

You need to activate it again but you  have to pay only one time. Please read this: http://www.phasure.com/index.php?topic=2131.0

If you find some problem with the activation ask here and we will be glad to help.

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Juan
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« Reply #19 on: June 03, 2013, 11:12:28 pm »


Nope. Only w7. I wonder if i install w8 do i need a new activation?
I dont like w8 at all, but for te sake of SQ i do...

Best regards,
Michel

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You need to activate it again but you  have to pay only one time. Please read this: http://www.phasure.com/index.php?topic=2131.0

If you find some problem with the activation ask here and we will be glad to help.

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Juan

Thx Juan.

I see most of you all have 16GB. I have 8 Gb and it sounds lovely. I also notice there is a big difference between memory types. Some cheap ass 1333mhz memory sounds very bad vs Corsair Vengeance 1866 mhz @1333 mhz.
I wonder if its worth to upgrade to 16gb?

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« Reply #20 on: June 03, 2013, 11:22:38 pm »

Hi Juan!

I have been playing with 09z-9 on W7 from the day Peter released it.

Today you helped me with the Windows 7/8 Dual Boot so i have now compared W7 and W8. (with exactly the same settings, Peters W8 settings)

I prefer W8, the SQ is fantastic.


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« Reply #21 on: June 03, 2013, 11:24:57 pm »


I see most of you all have 16GB. I have 8 Gb and it sounds lovely. I also notice there is a big difference between memory types. Some cheap ass 1333mhz memory sounds very bad vs Corsair Vengeance 1866 mhz @1333 mhz.
I wonder if its worth to upgrade to 16gb?


Hi Michel,

12Gb is enough, even 8Gb works also and 16Gb seems to be the maximun you´ll need and I personally would recommend it. I remember reading about it a few days ago in a post from Peter. About the speed, not so sure but I guess that the faster the better.

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« Reply #22 on: June 03, 2013, 11:28:11 pm »

Hi Juan!

I have been playing with 09z-9 on W7 from the day Peter released it.

Today you helped me with the Windows 7/8 Dual Boot so i have now compared W7 and W8. (with exactly the same settings, Peters W8 settings)

I prefer W8, the SQ is fantastic.


Tore

That´s ok Tore, if you make some findings about settings for better SQ let us know.

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« Reply #23 on: June 08, 2013, 01:41:01 am »

09-z9b sounding very good although havn't tried different settings yet due to M2Tech Hiface failure(I knocked it and damaged the USB plug to board connection).
Now have the Hiface Evo due to big discount($275Au) from Australian retailer "Wicked Digital". This was a huge improvement in sound, being separately powered over the Hiface.

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« Reply #24 on: June 09, 2013, 01:54:02 pm »

Hey Nick - Well what can I say? - on this occasion I have to completely disagree with you but it may point to some difference between our systems that needs further investigation.

I started at Q5=2 and clock=0.5 and the sound is lively and dynamic. So I set Q5=10 and clock=1 - wow what a difference the sound suddenly sounded much more analogue and easy to listen to. But for me it was not an improvement the sound was flattened and the problems "brushed over" (I was listening to a very poor Tony Allen recording). Actually I preferred to listen to it dynamic warts and all and not "brushed over".

 Now SFS makes very little difference to SQ (but like PA it used to make a significant difference).

Well that's the way I hear it anyway.

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Paul hi,

It's very interesting that your experience is so different. If I understand what Peter has done with Q5 (from the tool tips) I think that tuning settings might become much more PC specific to motherboards processors and disk types etc. I'm thinking that different PCs may have carateristic periods for operations like memory access, processor scheduling and so on. If Peters Q5 setting is helping to break these characteristic frequencies up and different PC do have specific periods then could be that we will hear very different things on different PCs.

 To explain more about what I'm hearing its actually very like your system, it just sounds so much more real palpable and dynamic, with a much sweeter to end. There real energy in performance with the whole spectrum contributing in a consistent way to the sound.

Might it be that your PC already has a "nice" spread of internal transaction frequencies, so sound is already [extremely  Happy] good ?

It would be interesting if Mani and Brian could try the settings I posted above as they have the same mobo and processor and this might give some indication of whether or not we are getting to the point of more PC specific settings now.

Perhaps Peter might comment on this ?

Best Nick.

So I've spent the last week listening exclusively to W7, 9z9, in order to establish some kind of baseline for comparisons. Yesterday I had an opportunity for an extended listening session and here are a few impressions:

1. Regarding Q5 I have to agree with Paul's description above (I assume, Paul, your tests were with W7.) I found my most pleasing, dynamic, settings with a Q5 of 2 and a clock res of .5. In general, it seems that increasing the clock res presents a brighter sound while increasing Q5 does the opposite: the sound becomes rounder or more analogue like and, if you keep the volume the same, less dynamic feeling. However, I found I could crank the volume to unbelievable levels with the higher Q5 and the music sounded awesome. If I set my system up outdoors and wanted to play as loud as possible I wolud use Nicks settings, but at home in my listening room my preference is the somewhat lower volume with the lower Q5.

2. SFS really makes a significant though more subtle difference here. My preference is around 50 or 60. With my current settings I can't go below 30. Nick what settings were you using when you managed a really low SFS?

3. Like Juan said in his beautiful post about 9Z9 and W8, volume is something to really pay attention to. With peak extension off, 9Z9 feels roughly similar dialed down 3db to what I was used to with version 8e. However, I find that I'm bumping up the volume 1.5 db in 9Z9--not sure if that is a good or a bad thing.

4. After listening for several hours yesterday I rebooted into W8, which sounded very good and smooth but a bit less dynamic than W7. Not sure why this is so. Anyone know if having music on one side of a partition and OS on the other side has a bad effect on SQ? All of my efforts with a playback drive and/or having music stored on an external drive changed SQ here for the worse.

5. Lastly, yesterday I was ready to announce that I was changing my signature because 9Z9 is best of all.....then I played a few of my favorite vocals with 8e. After adjusting volume to account for PE being on, it seems to still have some magic too so I'm just going to add a 9Z9 settings to my signature. Maybe I'm just a little slow.  Happy
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« Reply #25 on: June 09, 2013, 06:37:37 pm »

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4. After listening for several hours yesterday I rebooted into W8, which sounded very good and smooth but a bit less dynamic than W7. Not sure why this is so.

Hahaha, and then to think I am so, So, SOO glad I was able to get those stupid too high dynamics out of the way !

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« Reply #26 on: June 15, 2013, 12:39:36 pm »

Okay, maybe I can have an impression as well ...

For the last 3-4 weeks or so I'm actually using Windows 8 exclusively. I have no real urge anymore to stop using it, and so I use it all the time. But not really ...

Sometimes it happens that I feel it is too much of a hassle to switch the few things I need to switch (Windows 8 is on another PC than my ever used Windows 7 one) and then I think "what the heck, it should be as good, and maybe it is nice to compare again". So I just let it go. Maybe a week ago this happened for the first time.
And so here a a few "looking from the other angle" impressions :

- Bass is more in Windows 7.
Yes it is. But I don't feel it is more accurate.

- Sound is completely gray (grey for this side of the Atlantic).
Yup, this is the most occurring. But keep in mind : you'll only observe this when listening for a longer subsequent time to Windows 8. At least with me this is so.

- Can't find normal W7 settings.
Meaning : I am so annoyed by the W7 sound - which is so sooo much less accurate by now - that I can do what I want, but no good setting can be found.

Please notice : This all can theoretically be because 0.9z-9b has gone worse for W7, but I don't believe that. I don't, because I used the same 0.9z-9b I used before outside of W8. It all seems a matter of superfast getting used to the W8 sound, now it is listenable anyway.

At this moment I still can't say that Windows 8 is better in all its aspects (the highs seem still a tad too less colored (coloured Happy) but the importance comes from W7 just went unlistenable - in comparison !

So fast we get used to things.

Btw, at least for Windows 7 it seems so that now Q1 is the more important SQ dial. Not the SFS. Watch out here, because we tend to set Q1 higher with the higher SFS, which at least works the other way around : with the lower SFS we *have* to lower Q1 or otherwise it doesn't work. But IMO the real influencing thing now is Q1 itself. IOW, set the SFS to the higher setting (I use 120) but set Q1 to 7 (xQ1 to 1) to compare against a 30x10 which is my other setting.
And you know what ? Me knowing how Q5 works (when set to other than 0 of course) this is even very logical ...

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XXHighEnd Mach III Stealth LPS PC -> Xeon Scalable 14/28 core with Hyperthreading On (set to 14/28 cores in BIOS and set to 10/20 cores via Boot Menu) @~660MHz, 48GB, Windows 10 Pro 64 bit build 14393.0 from RAM, music on LAN / Engine#4 Adaptive Mode / Q1/-/3/4/5 = 14/-/0/0/*1*/ Q1Factor = *4* / Dev.Buffer = 4096 / ClockRes = *10ms* / Memory = Straight Contiguous / Include Garbage Collect / SFS = *10.13*  (max 10.13) / not Invert / Phase Alignment Off / Playerprio = Low / ThreadPrio = Realtime / Scheme = Core 3-5 / Not Switch Processors during Playback = Off/ Playback Drive none (see OS from RAM) / UnAttended (Just Start) / Always Copy to XX Drive (see OS from RAM) / Stop Desktop, Remaining, WASAPI and W10 services / Use Remote Desktop / Keep LAN - Not Persist / WallPaper On / OSD Off (!) / Running Time Off / Minimize OS / XTweaks : Balanced Load = *62* / Nervous Rate = *1* / Cool when Idle = n.a / Provide Stable Power = 1 / Utilize Cores always = 1 / Time Performance Index = Optimal / Time Stability = Stable / Custom Filtering *Low* (16x) / Always Clear Proxy before Playback = On -> USB3 from MoBo -> Lush^3
A: W-Y-R-G, B: *W-G* USB 1m00 -> Phisolator 24/768 Phasure NOS1a/G3 75B (BNC Out) async USB DAC, Driver v1.0.4b (16ms) -> B'ASS Current Amplifier -> Blaxius*^2.5* A:B-G, B:B-G Interlink -> Orelo MKII Active Open Baffle Horn Speakers. ET^2 Ethernet from Mach III to Music Server PC (RDC Control).
Removed Switching Supplies from everywhere (also from the PC).

For a general PC :
W10-10586.0 - May 2016 (2.05+)
*XXHighEnd PC -> I7 3930k with Hyperthreading On (12 cores)* @~500MHz, 16GB, Windows 10 Pro 64 bit build 10586.0 from RAM, music on LAN / Engine#4 Adaptive Mode / Q1/-/3/4/5 = 14/-/1/1/1 / Q1Factor = 1 / Dev.Buffer = 4096 / ClockRes = 1ms / Memory = Straight Contiguous / Include Garbage Collect / SFS = 0.10  (max 60) / not Invert / Phase Alignment Off / Playerprio = Low / ThreadPrio = Realtime / Scheme = Core 3-5 / Not Switch Processors during Playback = Off/ Playback Drive none (see OS from RAM) / UnAttended (Just Start) / Always Copy to XX Drive (see OS from RAM) / All Services Off / Keep LAN - Not Persist / WallPaper On / OSD On / Running Time Off / Minimize OS / XTweaks : Balanced Load = *43* / Nervous Rate = 1 / Cool when Idle = 1 / Provide Stable Power = 1 / Utilize Cores always = 1 / Time Performance Index = *Optimal* / Time Stability = *Stable* / Custom Filter *Low* 705600 / -> USB3 *from MoBo* -> Clairixa USB 15cm -> Intona Isolator -> Clairixa USB 1m80 -> 24/768 Phasure NOS1a 75B (BNC Out) async USB DAC, Driver v1.0.4b (4ms) -> Blaxius BNC interlink *-> B'ASS Current Amplifier /w Level4 -> Blaxius Interlink* -> Orelo MKII Active Open Baffle Horn Speakers.
Removed Switching Supplies from everywhere.

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« Reply #27 on: June 18, 2013, 02:07:14 pm »

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Here are some first impressions:

1. 9Z9 (Peter's W8 settings except SFS @ 60)sounds better in W7 than W8. W8 sounds a bit more veiled to me.

2. In both W7 and W8, 9Z9 sounds best without the ASSI Rainbow Sugar Card (I didn't make that up!) It definitely puts a bit of a blanket on the sound.

3. 9Z9 in general is just a bit too fat in the mids resulting in less well defined vocals; though W7 sounds much more defined than W8.

4. 8e in W7, with Rainbow Sugar (the AFX-104 filtering card), continues to sound fabulous here.

Regarding 1 and 3 above, well, they are wrong. After making some adjustments to Peters W8, 9Z9 settings I think I finally dialed in W8 to where I am getting "the best sound ever."

The three things that took away the impression of fat mids and vieled or not articulate enough vocals were setting Q5 to 2, setting the clock res to 2.5, SFS to 60 and copying my entire music directory to the W8 partition. This last adjustment seems to have had the biggest impact. (If anyone wants to indulge me, I'd appreciate it if you would copy/paste a track to your C drive (or whatever drive you have XX installed on) and compare the sound to whatever playback drive you currently use. Results could be reported in the playback drive thread.)

In my setup 9Z9 sounded "grey" in W8 until I copied some music to the C drive, which is where it is played from in my W7 setup. As soon as I did that W8 came alive here. Though I wouldn't describe my W7 sound as grey at all, now it doesn't sound as pleasing or musical as W8. Guess I'll have to switch over to the W8 SQ thread for further reporting.  Happy

One other way of saying this is that the high frequency sound of 8e that I "crave" is now achieved in 9Z9 W8, but in a much more refined and integrated way. Yesterday I played Anita O'Day, Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered in W7, 8e and though the vocal sounds incredible the accompanying piano sounds fake or like a toy. In W8, 9z9 that same piano sounds very, very real--like it too is in the room with Anita.

So awesome. Thanks Peter....sorry for being a bit slow.
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XX2.07/MB: ASRock Extreme 4M , i7-3930K @ 0.5GHz/ RAM-OS W10586/32 Gigs 1600 DDR3/ Clarixa usb cable  /Q1,3,4,5 = *14*/1/1/*1* / *Q1Factor = 1* / Peak Extension: Off/Dev.Buffer = 4096 / ClockRes = *.5ms* / Straight Contiguous / SFS = *.02,/ Do Nothing With Cover Art / not Invert / *(Phase Alignment Off  / Playerprio = Low / ThreadPrio = Real Time / Scheme = 3-5 / UnAttended (Just Start) / *All* Services Off except LAN & RDC/ Persist off/No OSD / No Running Time / Minimize OS / Boost on/XTweaks : Balanced Load = *40* / Nervous Rate = 1/ Cool when Idle = NA / Provide Stable Power = 0 / Utilize Cores always = 1 / Time Performance Index = Best/ Time Stability = On/ No Up-sampling/R-2R DAC
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« Reply #28 on: June 20, 2013, 02:54:25 pm »

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2. In both W7 and W8, 9Z9 sounds best without the ASSI Rainbow Sugar Card (I didn't make that up!) It definitely puts a bit of a blanket on the sound.

Okay in the future I'll spare you folks my foolishness of posting first impressions cause 9Z9 has shown, over time, that they are a bit "premature" to post.  Happy

I know Peter has been warning all about the unreliability of the ASSI Card but I realized last night that all my testing with W8, with the settings below, has been with the ASSI card installed. I thought I had taken it out! Anyway, the sound with W8, 9Z9 and the ASSI card in is just remarkably good. I removed it and there was just no comparison--the sound stage with the card out isn't nearly as precise and there is just a lot more hash without the card. So, for now, it's staying in here. 
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« Reply #29 on: June 20, 2013, 10:41:42 pm »

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Okay in the future I'll spare you folks my foolishness of posting first impressions cause 9Z9 has shown, over time, that they are a bit "premature" to post.  Happy

OK; Say Ave Peter three times and renew your license, and your sins will  be forgiven.
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Hardware: Stealth Mach III > Lush^2 > 24/768 Phasure NOS1a/G3  > active preamp > 3-way active XO > amps > ribbon/dynamic true line source speakers.

Settings all settings as recommended by Peter by October 2019.
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