Solved issue :
Caused by inconcistencies in the Vista uplevelled Administrator Rights as needed per version 0.9m (for Processor Core Appointment), tracks with diacritical marks *in their path* would error out at playback attempt. This is solved now.

9o

This is really very nice Peter. Now I can play my idiotic Scandinavian music without getting nuts. Thanks.

Gerner

No worries Peter...

Please also remember the red cross in the playlist window.

Gerner

Hi Peter

Of course I was joking with the fridge thing. 

Crazy is maybe not the word I would use about you. More precise I would call you experimental. Experiments are often leading to theories and later on to science and facts. Facts are objective. As objective as we all know who our mother is. 

My curiosity is a spin off of the fact that I feel no lacks of nothing here in my environment.

And your experiments is of such unorthodocs caracter that it is waking up an old fact-man like me. 

Cheers

Gerner

Fair play Klaus...

Keep us up-dated.

Gerner

Cheers Klaus

Oh...interesting stuff, except for the Benchmark it self.

Had it runnig here. Sorry it didn't stay for long. (Few hours)

Gerner

Hahaha Peter.

I think I grabbed your point. To your ears the up-cranked highs just do the job for your perceiving the energy expressed by splashing symbals with the same energy as a Swartzenegger beat on a tom-tom drum.
For you (and maybe others as well) it does the trick listening to fidele music.
It is just looking freaky on a frequency plot.


As I said I beleive you when you say it's better, but sad I can't verify it. (No filter acces, U know).

Gerner

Edditing added:

Peter taking the risk to offend you  which is not my intension at all, U know. So forgive me if I'm wrong.

I know where you are often listening to your speakers. And that is 15 degrees off axis I beleive? And 8 meters from the speakers I beleive? And mostly with your head in the fridge to look for cold beers  I beleive?

Don't you then think that a close up meassurement should show quite an amplitude rise to cope with the treble loss in air under these conditions?

Gerner

Christmas will be the right moment Peter for you to place the XX 1.0 under the Christmas tree, and for us to unpack it..... 

Interesting post of yours and also interesting to read about your observations re. the graniness disappears if the highs are cranked up!

I have not had such experiences with any of my numerous speaker constructions and I did not verify your obsrvations om my present speakers either. A thing I would have done time ago if I have had easy acces to the filter. Which I have not.

It's funny, but when you tell us, why shouldn't we beleive your hear it as described? As far as I know your favourit wife agrees. 

I was wondering if you could acheive the same results your place cranking up the treble by means of a graphich equalizer even I know that would not be exactly the same as doing it your way.

But having this in mind that our ear-sensitivity-curve is quite unlinear (remember the good old inegrated amps with a loudness button) actually drag things even more in the way you do it, at the sound levels I know you are playing with, you, relatively understood, expose your brain to an even more exagerated level!!!!!

My conclusion is that we all of us have one non-reference in common: our own ears and brains. They do not perceive things the same way even we agree on so many qualties.

I was just thinking about the ear-frequency curve we are born with and the one we die with. No comparation. But still we can hear and enjoy no matter this fact.


Now being a former drummer myself, I cannot recall I heard any higher frequencies beating those cymbals to Hell. But, my God, sitting 50 cm's from them made me deaf. Bwiiiiing...

For now I have defined graininess rather in the cathegory of *low resolution*. And I am not sure wether old recordings contains lower resolution than newer ones. On the contrary I think. (At least I have some albums of nowadays proving that...Pfew)
If you say we can "create" higher resolution by means of cranking up in the highs, I obey, but don't understand. 

Gerner

Hi Johan

I am not familiar with your DAC neither I am a digital expert.

However I remember that the XX first introduction of the Q1 being able to pass into the minus area had a lower -4, meaning the -4 we have today is equal to the older -2.
The former Q1 set at -4 made my FireFace freak completely and closed Vista.

Now I can't help thinking that you not being able to go lower than +20 could have something to do with your DACs internal USB to SPDIF conversion? Some eletronics does that job. And here might be something that prevents you to go lower?

There are some people who choose this device to bypass their DACs internal simple electronic USB to SPDIF converters, but I have no experience if it's better.

http://www.hagtech.com/hagusb.html


Gerner

 

Tanks Peter for the attention.

To your 1 or 2 and 3...seems to me nothing is found guilty here.

But...here is something:

Let's take Björk's folders, just as an example:

Non of them I can load without #3 troubles. Those I cannot, I change the *ö* and rename it *o*. Then it loads perfectly.

There are though one folder with Björk, where I'm not allowed to change the file name.

Does that tell you anything?


Gerner

Peter,

I think I can confirm if tittle and tracks contains letters as "ãäçëö" #3 stops regardless pocessor core checked/unchecked. No other letters stops the #3.

I just did many tests now and it shows the same pattern.

Gerner

Peter

I never had 9m going here, so I can't tell. But the 9K had far less problems.

Gerner

Yes this is likely to be the case.

I have hundreds of cases #3 stopping. In particular when I browse my folders and throw a track from here and there into the playlist and then press "next". But, not only that. I can open a music folder, drag all tracks into there and bweeeehh.

I will clean up all previous XX9's from the root, reeboot my FireFace and see what that does.

It is really worthwhile to get 9m-1 to run perfectly, as I cannot recall I had better source sound since I said goodbuy to my 15.000 grand turntable a decade ago.

Peter, the XX is, must, be close to digital Nirvana playback. It's such a joy to listen to it. But it is a headache to understand why it act differently in so many PC invironments.

Bert told me his is going non-stop perfect. My 9K did so to speak as well. But the 9m-1, not so.


Gerner

Just deleted a long post by accident to you Peter.    Explaining how it appears here...

There is a pattern to be found....talking my set-up of course. But the pattern is worse showing than with 9K.


I think I have to repeat it tomorrow, and I will. Exhausted in this moment. 

Gerner

May I supply with that this phenomenon is connectet to certain rips/folders?

I can repeat the #3 stop after reboot, load another playlist from another folder and it goes as it should.



??????


Gerner