Do you use ultra low-noise toroidal transformer? I hope it's not something as large as power amplifier.

I can't using atom+hdsp aes-32 to beat P-05. I used to try quad core with various optimzations but making decent linear PSU for at least 200w is almost impossible from size and heat and elimating noise/heat in big machine is tough and cant be satisfied with result. Maybe others can though but I can make it sound more musical and pleasant in system with best dCS+Boulder powering Wilson MAXXX3 what $50k cables (call him all you like :D)

I was offended and you said so. If I were to apologize, it should be about mixing up posts to edward with me and that where confusion lies.

Anyway, 6 months is for your recent geeky update not when I start. Do you think it takes only 6 months intead of years for over 90% of world's best audio interface, software, os and optmization stuff? I just try to convince that I didn't copy you.

http://www.audioasylum.com/forums/pcaudio/messages/8/86441.html

I think you should have made it short and honest like saying I misunderstood you and sorry instead of making long explanations about your past, your work, your updates against Fidelizer, etc.

The reason why Peter banned is he thought I copied his recent updates and make own free version to abuse his forum while the truth is I don't even check on his release notes nor have interests in downloading XXHighEnd. The reason for my existance in XXHighEnd is solely for pursuing the truth if someone actually trying to do real competition against real hiend cd transport and I want to know their results while sharing mine. But well, truth hurts and I admit what I said back then is like putting salt on wounds.

My goal for Fidelizer is to improve Windows system for better sound reproduction in every player including XXHighEnd. I believe it's an act from good will for everyone including XXHighEnd users. Who would have thought Peter's just update some features overlapping this last week as I've been using it since months before joining XXHighEnd? I joined because Peter himself invited me so I thought people in here is opened mind and willingly to share daring stuff but I guess I was wrong after all.

I apologize if some of my statements being too offensive. I was upset with the situation that Peter started without leaving room for me to explain anything. As thing spread to people outside XXHighEnd community, he made even it more outbreak and I don't think that's fair. Try to put yourself in my shoes.

The world is wide. Don't try to make the whole world in little head of yours. Let it go man and enjoy the world. Commercial may ruin one's soul and gratitude from sharing alike and giving may have higher values than what we shall expect.

As my machine is optimized for J River now so I'm using it with WASAPI Event Style (Exclusive). It should be bit-perfect so my guess is recording program that didn't record it right. I'll try your Gold Wave next week so please give me screenshots of your recommended settings to test.

Use the second. It has original file and you can read radme.txt inside for more information.

From excel chart, all I could think was dithering floating point bit to fixed bit ones. Dithering sounds kinda strange for measurements no matter how hard I think about it. It ruined my effort for using high quality audio interfaces and direct recording at very low latency.

nah. I included original file in so it'll be bigger. Anyway, about posted pic, it's between HDD and RAM. I don't understand why he did floating point rounding error comparison. It's fixed 16 bit wav which sounds irrelevant to me.

Sent. It seems someone's trying to measure this by using floating point rounding error in http://twitpic.com/3ylv70/full. What do you think?

That's weird to me too. Maybe it's ASIO under MME name lol.

I've finished my recording using Audicity @1ms latency. MME is similar stuff to ASIO but not well supported by most manufactures but still be counted as direct host like ASIO/WASAPI. I can still record @1ms latency so it should be OK for RME's MME. I'm recording on heavily modified music server so taking parts out and in again requires a lot of time and effort.

Anyway, Audicity seems good enough for getting jobs done right. I can hear veiling sound from hdd 2.5, clearing sound in ssd, more revealing details in ramdisk files. I'm uploading it right now. Will send you PM when done.

There're some difficulties here. my OS is heavily trimmed down so most pro applications didn't work like sonar, i-sound, etc. Due to various circumstances, the best I can come up now is recording through MME with Audicity using 2ms recording latency and ram buffer.

I'm testing Audicity right now to see if it can work for this project.

Thanks. I'll take your advice in my consideration for making quality recording. Hope it won't take long to get used to making good ones. It'll be WASAPI exclusive with bit-perfect guaranteed playback.

Besides SSD VS HDD VS RAM, do you want me to make anything else?

My only concern is bit transparency check of recorded files without changes after each playback. To ensure system's accuracy in measurements, I want to record the same experiment 3 times and make sure they can pass bit-transparency check. While I'm not certain if that could actually be possible, I'd like to make things as good as I can.

For most computer geeka, I know they wouldn't even bother as long as it doesn't mess with bit-perfect thingy. If you think INT202 -> RME AES + Antelope clock recorded by Sonar 8 with configured WASAPI digital recording optimized for clocking is good to go, I'll setup test equipments in next 24hrs.