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« on: January 17, 2009, 02:04:21 am »

Well, finally got the time to try them against each other. Have only compared SQ, nothing else.

V6a is sharper defined, e.g. portraits the sound "picture" clearer. It also has more sharpened transient shoulders than w7.

W7 sounds a little more dampened on top, with rounder transient shoulders, but maybe more "pleasant" than V6a.

Standing basses is more in the background on W7, f.ex. on Jamie Cullums, "What a difference a day make".

Bass generally sounds a little "rounder" on W7, on V6a it has more 3D and more obvious contours.

Piano sounds also "rounder" and more in the background on W7 than V6a.

Have hooked up my front monoblocks to my PPP to be sure power changes didn't disturb my comparisons, e.g. clean power.

Voices/singers comes through clearer on V6a than W7. Or with a little more treble.

On V6a the general volume sounds a pitch higher than through W7 which sounds (a little) lower in volume, not much.

All above somewhat exaggerated to make the point. Will listen more to W7 to make up my mind.
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« Reply #1 on: January 17, 2009, 05:06:38 am »

Well, I might kinda agree; I've been listening to V7, and loved it.  I've been listening to W7 since it came out and,
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W7 beats V7

It may be all about me now being able to use vol through XXHE, and now being able to set my Pass Labs Xover at it's ideal vol/drive to my amps.  It's been sounding great ... could be my top end in my system as is shouts a bit as it is, (no fault of XXHE) ...(i don't know where I'm getting this urge for a new dac), and that's why I like W7.  Anyway, it sounds balanced to me.  I've turned my bass up with W7 too and am liking it.  So, combo analog vol & Peter's digital to the win here for W7

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been listening to Q1 setting 4
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I set it there after his thread and like it a lot I guess... but i"ll move it around after a while.
I was at 0 most the time with V7
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« Reply #2 on: January 17, 2009, 03:21:09 pm »

Am at Q=14 yet, will try new settings. Tried Double and Upsample, but reverted back to vanilla 16/44 due to miniscule differences.

And yes, running the above tests in unattended (not updated my profile yet, will see).

EAC ripped WAVs used for the test. 16/44 standard.
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« Reply #3 on: January 19, 2009, 05:54:20 pm »

Ok, after a hint from a post in another topic I may have interpreted this wrongly. Probably most because of this :

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Standing basses is more in the background on W7

which came to me as a skandinavion expression on "standing waves". Happy

At least I have a Jamie Cullum and that track (Twenty Something) so I will use that for comparing to start with.

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On V6a the general volume sounds a pitch higher than through W7 which sounds (a little) lower in volume, not much.

Of course assuming that you are right, I may wonder where this comes from. I suspect you use the volume at -0dB only (as you sig says), and rather officially this can't matter. Can this be the better "sharpness" from 0.9v-6a ?
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« Reply #4 on: January 19, 2009, 08:41:57 pm »

Will try some more and get back to ya.
Volume is at 0db, yep.
Playing unattended for comparisons.
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« Reply #5 on: January 20, 2009, 03:10:45 pm »

Ok. Loaded 0.9v-6a and dug up Jamie Cullums.

Played the first track (the one you mentioned) in 0.9w-8 first. Didn't seem wrong.
Ran it again in 0.9v-6a and didn't really notice a difference apart from that I don't like his nasale voice. Ran it up till the 4th track.

Then switched to 0.9w-8 and started at track 5 (I'm no good in A-B-ing);
The first thing I noticed was more natural instruments. Mainly cymbals. Hmm ... could be the different track ...
Tried to pay attention for general problems (like you describe) but couldn't find those really.
Stopped this album after one or two more tracks (or maybe it was just finished).

Then hopped over to Little Feat (some 4 volume original track album);
Started with 0.9-v6a and Dixie Chicked. If you have it (just the original track, not live) you might look it up and hear the same as I did ...
I noticed some strange but interesting prrt prrt deliberately distorted sound coming from kind of mid left, like from a synth at the wrong place and time. It is because of the latter two that I noticed it.
Switched to 0.9w-8 and ran it again. Ha ! now that distortion appears to be a distortion guitar ! including string attack and all. It is very "short" played (like immediately putting your hand on the strings after the attack and without further decay).
For me this was and is enough to "ditch" 0.9v-6a.

I kept in running in 0.9w-8 and I seemed to notice that the livelyness and joy coming from Little Feat just isn't expressed by 0.9v-6a. Noticed that at Night and Day at switching back to 0.9v-6a once more. It just "does not work". Besides that, in Night and Day there are towards the end some peculiar overtone 1970 synth sounds which don't work out very good in 0.9v-6a.

So all 'n all I tend to disagree. Happy

I was thinking about differences between DACs and all for an argument, but since it would be the first time to come up with such a thing, "officially" this can't be a reason.

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« Reply #6 on: January 21, 2009, 10:08:41 pm »

On my system V6a (or V7) are sounded better than W7.
For the moment I stay with the V7 version.
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« Reply #7 on: January 22, 2009, 08:50:14 am »

Thank you yy.
Are you able to describe how you sense the difference ? (if you don't want to, it's okay. Happy).

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« Reply #8 on: January 22, 2009, 09:27:31 am »

Has anyone determined whether there's a difference between V6a and V7 ?  I have V7 already.
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« Reply #9 on: January 22, 2009, 10:52:45 am »

I like w8 better for its fullness and details not heard in previous versions mentioned
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« Reply #10 on: January 22, 2009, 12:52:31 pm »

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I like w8 better for its fullness and details not heard in previous versions mentioned

That is indeed what my longer winded previous post comes down to. And although one may argue that even this is so, something else may cause the other version to be liked better, I did not hear the "more detail" as an argument (from the con side Happy). What I really want to say is : I can't imagine that if this is my notice, it works out differently with someone else. It is quite an absolute thing you know (like foot tapping is way important, but not an absolute thing). It now is even the more important, when Leif hears, say, the same as I do, while he uses an oversampling DAC and I do not. I imagined this could matter, which is why I slowly brought up the subject. But as said, it would be the first time that the DAC matters on XX judgements, and so it still is not (at least not on the OS/NOS side of matters).

Btw, by no means (and I mean by NO means) I want to state things here. I never did and I never will (the whole project would be rendered useless then), but this seems a strange one.
All this "strangeness" would be gone when people say "yeah, of course I hear more detail. But nevertheless I don't like it". Which would not be rare at all. Having said that, personally I have big problems with liking a version that molests complete instruments over a version which don't. The first may have better foot tapping figures, but if so BOTH versions are wrong then.

Lastly, we must be careful. And now I *do* bring up the DAC subject, but which I do this time to leave all more in the open and objective;

With my old DAC I could choose SPDIF and USB. The USB connection was converted to SPDIF inside. Not the best, and from that or something else, both sounded different. This could not be explained in real technical terms by me, except for a perceived more strong bass in the favour of USB. USB lost though, because of the lack of musicians wanting to play for *you* (call it a sub-foot tapping matter).

This time I can choose for SPDIF and I2S. The difference should be in terms of jitter only, and where SPDIF has loads of jitter, I2S has nothing in comparison. Note : This is a bit apples and oranges for reasons beyond the subject here, but looking at the result : jitter, it is okay to use the phenomenon.
Now, the difference is day and night. I said it elsewhere, this is two different DACs because of this only. But, it is very difficult to describe what you actually hear when listening to SPDIF. I mean, without knowing the I2S connection one could try to describe the common phenomena from music playback. But with the I2S connection as a reference, one could easily say "wow, what a raw sound that is". Additionally the higher picthed sounds are not equally spread over the spectrum (one tone of a xylophone sounds louder than the other).

Since about all XX can do about the SQ is jitter-influence at the input side, we are dealing with something which cannot be compared amongst us all; So, before I continue : you can bet if I have a jittery connection, XX has more influence on that compared to when I don't have a jittery connection at all. Thus, my raw perception from SPDIF can be smoothened by XX to some extend, while the I2S connection is already inherintly smooth. Also :
When a DAC is insensitive to incoming jitter, nothing can be done on that side of matters, and what remains (for XX) is some "mysterious" other influence (which btw really is there). Now :

Apart from some DACs which cannot be influenced at all (two exist, and I don't think one of us here has one), there are some DACs around of which can be said they are virtually immune to incoming jitter. You out there may have one (but then I wouldn't know the brand), and more of them will emerge in near future. BUT :
Leif has one, and I have one.
oops

I know, statistically there's a million times too few data to work with, but I dare say this *does* matter, and it may well be an explanation in this case;
The jitter influence from XX can hardly be at work, and only that other thing (working upon the analoge side of the DAC) is still working. Next it should be so that this other thing incurs for better detail (which I extend to making instruments more real), while a NEGATIVE jitter influence from the 0.9w versions (should be from off 0.9w-5) masks that better detail which actually is there.
It would, btw, fit my ideas about better detail being totally unrelated to foot tapping qualities.


Ok, I hope there's not too much nonsense in the above, and I'm only trying to find explanations, and in the mean time present some proof of not wanting to state anything as being wrong or right.
if we all can keep it up, right now two camps are right. For me this just means "work to do", and try to create something with both virtues in it.

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« Reply #11 on: January 23, 2009, 04:40:42 am »

Has anyone determined whether there's a difference between V6a and V7 ?  I have V7 already.

I asked the above because I still prefer W8 to V7.  And, I simply have to have this finer volume control that W8 gives.... I can't go back.
But, I'd still like to hear what LydMekk has to say.  Hope you get some time to go back and forth LydMekk.
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« Reply #12 on: January 23, 2009, 05:54:48 am »

Is a little plagued with a hefty cold atm. Will get back to this thread in a couple of days.
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« Reply #13 on: January 26, 2009, 02:31:55 pm »

Thank you yy.
Are you able to describe how you sense the difference ? (if you don't want to, it's okay. Happy).

Peter

I would have do it with pleasure, but my English spoken is too limited to explain what I sense.
Actually things are easy to explain: on my system, V7 is more natural than W7.
Last versions of "W" doesn't give the same density to the music, specially on the medium range.

Hope it will help you.

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« Reply #14 on: January 26, 2009, 06:41:36 pm »

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Last versions of "W" doesn't give the same density to the music

Which is exactly what was reported about 0.9w-9b to have increased. Not that these reports are all over, buy I myself sense similar.
You might try it ... (not for me, but for yourself of course).

But thanks for telling !
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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.
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