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I'm not 100% sure where to put this, but since this is Phasure NOS1 related, I guess it's okay to put it here.

People may remember that I wrote about (double) basses being able to express the hard plucking of the strings so much on the NOS1, while otherwise this is completely inaudible. This is about the metal sound which comes from the hard plucking, and which is so profound that it's totally crazy that is needs something like the NOS1 to make it audible (and it just bounces through the room, that loud). I also told about that you won't miss this at all when it's not audible, because all keeps on sounding natural and it is as if the strings are not hardly plucked at all. So, no problem.
And, when hearing this for the first time it makes you scream, while later this becomes fairly normal because there's no bass player not plucking those strings way hard. But, it *is* another dimension, because it expresses far better what the musician has in mind.

Now, the next is merely for the NOS1 owners ...

Let me first say that I hope you experienced the phenomenon described above; It may depend on your system (it must be something VERY micro-like, see below).

Now, yesterday I started with playing two "double bass" albums; one was with Sam Jones and mr. Niels Pedersen (always faster than than te fasted guitar player) "Double Bass" and next again Ray Brown, Niels Pedersen and Oscar Peterson "And the basists". I didn't know what I was hearing, so next I again played Ray Brown "Soular Energy" - an album I'm more familiar with (24/192). All exhibited the same very new phenomenon :

No metal audible anymore, but a complete buzzing like nylon strings can do it so beautifully.

So imagine : we have sheer nothing (would be without NOS1), we can have plain metal which seemed right to me, and we can have a load of overtones because the metal buzzes like zzzzoooomm. I can't imagine this is wrong.

The latter must be "caused" by W7 SP1 - possibly combined with KS Special Mode and not all that low latency (64@512).

It never occurred to me that there was a difference in this "metal" between Native W7 and Vista. But W7-SP1 completely changed it. I now wonder what this might do to other material which is highly dependend on something which must be about micro detail, but can result is super-change anyway. If it were for me it could be just hi-res material making a great difference suddenly. But that needs listening to that ... (later).

Peter

PS: Or it is the spinning disk this OS runs on ... (which nicely spins down btw)