9U-1, Something is definitely done right this time, Peter!

[LydMekk]

Have testet and tweaked a lot after upgrading to 9U-1. Have for some time used Double and Upsampling as this has earlier given more "air" and a bigger soundstage.

After the U-1 version this seems to be even better! Have also set my soundcard output to 88Khz instead of it switching automatically to 88Khz from 44.1 when XX plays.

I guess as you mentioned in another thread that the 24bit conversion in this mode is also contributing to the good results. This is so much better here now than playing without Double and Upsampling that I'm never going back...

In other words, 9U-1 has "something"...
It's more "coherent", "analog"...

Am I making sense? And is there something to this when you look at your latest programming changes?

Keep up the good work, Peter! Happy now... 

[PeterSt]

Thank you LydMekk.

Coherent would sure be my description, as analog. The latter, tough, has been unintentional. Also, maybe I am not sure what gives us that "analog" feeling, because in fact it is not all *that* similar to, say, vinyl. But there's something like undisturbance which analog has somehow, and that's shown here too.

I guess as you mentioned in another thread that the 24bit conversion in this mode is also contributing to the good results. This is so much better here now than playing without Double and Upsampling that I'm never going back...

Sadly I can't judge on this otherwise than 18 bits (and I kind of refuse to play through the 24 bits Fireface as the DAC). Keep in mind though the presented harmonic distortion ( http://www.phasure.com/index.php?topic=372.msg2739#msg2739 ) which I still need to dive into myself and e.g. whether it can show under 22050 KHz and whether the bar at 20Hz is just hum or harmonic distortion as well. So, like I said in the other thread, it would not exactly be my way of improving sound quality.

Peter