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Well, I just undemoed my copy of XXHE tonight and I knew I'd have to pick something special to listen to now that I can hear a whole album through.  If someone asks me who's my favorite singer there is no hesitation, it's Ella Fitzgerald.  Her phrasing is always spot on and her voice is beautiful.  I picked out the "album" Take Love Easy.  I ripped it from the JVC XRCD cd and it sounds just amazing.  It features just Ella with Joe Pass on guitar.  The XXHE player is amazing at pulling out all the nuances and setting the air to vibrate more realistically/fuller than I've heard before.  Well time to go back for more before going to bed.  Think I'll pull up Clap Hands! Here Comes Charlie album by Ella (remastered by dcc; another great sounding disc... opps, wav)... it's a quiet evening time.

here's a video of ella/pass... doesn't sound too good off the net, but you get an idea
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=12297413

Wow just wow.  It's approaching 3:00 am here in California (built the music room so that I don't disturb anyone; can play as loud as I'd like yea) and I have to crawl into bed, but I am so very happy with my system right now I had to post something.  From top to bottom (and side to side heh) everything is better.  I will be judging all your later efforts against this d version I'm running.  I don't care how many conveniences or other machines you make it run on or file formats OR (dare i say it) whether you make it compatible with cue files... if the SQ doesn't measure up, at least I'll have this d version forever... ahahha it's mine now!!!  I'll just pretend it's like the vinyl days where we didn't jump around from track to track... just put on my single WAVs and let her "spin".

I can't believe that it was as simple as a fresh install of Vista Home Premium, unzipping your XXHE player to the C: drive, and creating a shortcut to my desktop!  Sure I've cut out some processes I didn't need and all the silly protection stuff Vista does (if ms was protecting my dick I'd never get laid); but that probably wasn't necessary to get this great sound!  Thank you Peter.  This is exactly what I felt computer audio should be able to do.

When I think of all the COUNTLESS hours I spent tweaking winxp for foobar getting around kmixer, trying various asio methods... sigh, what a waste.  ok, wellz, I'll be hanging around your boards now and keeping an eye on things... but everything is running smooth as silk over here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8yx4k4tzqE&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Etribalwar%2Ecom%2Fforums%2Fshowthread%2Ephp%3Ft%3D497685

Dave,

Don't be afraid when you wake up I deteriorated the SQ ... :nea: Me, and we all will protect that (if "you" find the SQ went down, I'll roll back to the then previous version).
Besides that my last post here was about emulating a similar situation in order to tackle the Vista/64 problem. So don't expect strangenesses.

Btw, why these references to IMHO unrelated youtube stuff ?
Also, please keep in mind that this board is less for "interesting music" as such, and more for indicating problems with XX, or where it excells (and upload a piece of track). But I guess your nice posts make me forget that ...  :)

Regards,
Peter

Hi Peter
They're your boards, I'll follow your lead.  The extra music links are just that, something to click on after reading a post.  Maybe something others might like to listen to or get exposed to(it's all about music).  If you think they're confusing or muddying up the boards I'll stop.  Again, Thanks for your efforts in getting the music bits off my machine in the correct way.  Dave

Hehe ... never knew this was about music. As you might expect ... "our" PC's have all sounds from these sources disabled ... like yours. :yes:

doh.. didn't think of that.  I post from a different (everyday use) computer than my front end computer.  On the FE comp I even disable network stuff ... (which with your player probably isn't necessary) hehe silly me.