I played further with the asio driver and got special mode to work now even with z2. Until now, my comparison between z4.1 mc and z2 was done with adaptive mode. I still would prefere z2 special over z4.1 mc special because z4.1 mc has the same disadvantage as compared to z2 with adaptive. It sounds to soft and not so clear. Most intereseting thing for me, changing to mixed again and using the same buffer size (and asio settings) as with z2, suddenly z4.1 showed what I missed. It is even more clear and detailed than z2. And I hope this isn't the late night effect again but it seems to be realy better now. I would be so glad if I can confirm this tomorrow (I could count one up for my first impressions statistics
). I have a good feeling about this.
Would be interested what you think about scheme 2 instead scheme 3. It seems to me, it can reproduce the highs more accurate. In earlier versions this was maybe to much but now it sounds crisp and clear. Less jittery.
Good night!
Flecko, thanks for mentioning scheme 2 and mixed SFS (set my buffer to 1040)! It really sounds much better in my system than SC with scheme 3 or 2!! I'm curious of how much you have your SFS on? I share the same view that scheme 3 cannot reproduce highs accurately (at least not in my system). As a matter of fact this was driving me nuts ever since I listened to scheme 3... I've tried zillions of combinations with scheme 3 (different buffer, with different KS, with different SFS, with different clock res, etc, etc.), I just could not get the highs to sound right! Changing to scheme 2 with Mixed mode and KS: Special really changed this!!
Tonight I tested scheme 2 with both Mixed and MC on SFS 130. And at least in my system MC sounds better. A little (and I do mean little , as of almost unnoticable) bit sharper in the highs, but nothing that makes me uncomfortable. The detail and clarity in the bass trumps Mixed mode very clearly though. I've listenend almost 10 times to Corcovado on Oscar Peterson's We Get Requests. And they sound very much the same in the mids and the highs (really small difference), but in Mixed mode I could not hear every bass note that Ray Brown hits and I could follow every one of his bass notes in MC mode!!!
I had some almost crying moments when I played Autumn Leaves by Eric Clapton tonight!! And my heart started beating faster listening to Stranger on Earth by Lisa Ekdahl. God bless the power of Music (and XX, hehe)!
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