Hey VJ,

I run my system off a Goal Zero Yeti 1000 1500w pure sine-wave inverter. It made an unbelievable difference in my system. Kind of like listening at 2:00AM when grid power usage is low!
Here’s a link to my post about it on Audiophile Style(formerly Computer Audiophile.)

 https://audiophilestyle.com/forums/topic/56901-solar-charged-battery-system-providing-electricity-for-audio-system/?do=findComment&comment=977727

Merry Christmas to all the devoted audiophiles here that have been on this wonderful journey together with Peter and family for many years!! We are Blessed to have such a wealth of resource from The Whole community! Here’s to many more years of joy together!

Cheers,
Todd

    With being from a town 30 miles from her hometown, I’ve been listening to Natalie Merchant from her first 10,000 Maniacs Days! She has always been one of my favorites! And is always in my play list when I’ve made any change to my system. I am just so familiar with her voice, that it makes subtle changes easy to discern.
     If you haven’t checked her out on Cowboy Junkies “Trinity Revisted” you should
 Happy listening, especially on XX 2.10!

Todd

I can’t go back from SFS 20.19 & Arc Predict on 2.09 it is just too good!! Crazy resolution and massively deep & wide soundstage with every performer thoroughly grounded in their own space. Truly intoxicating!

I was, although, bothered by upper frequency harshness though, but for me it was solved by raising Q5 to 3! Now I have none of that harshness and the additional benefit of having more body and weight across the frequency range. Truly the best sound I have ever heard

All my other settings are Peter’s current defaults.

Cheers,
Todd

I wanted to briefly just thank you all for your kind words and not get off track from Paul’s outstanding recommendations.

I just really couldn’t find a way to separate my admiration for a wonderful singer/musician (I really didn’t want devalue that) and what was going on with my wife.

 I’ve always found sanctuary in listening to music that moves me, and Peter’s quest for the best possible recovery of the artist’s intent has vastly improved that emotional connection! As all of us here know, it’s way more significant than the mere physical improvements in sound!

All I can add is that music and my faith are what got me through my the hardest but most profound point in my life and continues too! We all imbed memories with the music we hear throughout our lives, so of course Rhiannon Giddens, especially after speaking with her, will always evoke a connection to my wife and her grace! I have no doubt that to all here, music is intertwined with our lives and we really can’t separate the two!

Paul & Juan, sorry for the confusion, but I’m certainly glad you appreciate where I was coming from!

One quick last happy note: Sandra told me, that if things didn’t turn out well, she wanted me to go on with my life and find someone else and have children since we couldn’t. And I am currently seeing a young(relative to my 54 yrs.)singer/songwriter, who is super talented and I hope to be able to make a “check out this artist” here in the future! We both believe my wife had some part in us meeting and is smiling down on us from Heaven!


Todd

Hey Juan,

    I just wanted to commend you on recommending Rhiannon Giddens. I came across her music towards the beginning of 2017 by chance when on the Computer Audiophile website under a “Female Vocalists” forum thread.

    I saw her in concert in a small theater venue in Atlanta, GA  on May 6th, and she truly was one of the best concerts I’d been to in years! Unbelievably good voice plus she is a banjo virtuoso, & a very good violinist! She was recently awarded the 2017 MacArthur Foundation Musical Genuis Award and received a $625,000 grant.  

    The concert was a surprise from me sweet wife, Sandra, who said it was my birthday present, even though my birthday is in September!(Looking back at it she was just trying to get in as much as possible since she had just been diagnosed with a terminal malignant brain tumor and she didn’t survive until September.)

    I vowed to see her again this year because she was so good and try to meet her to tell her my wife’s story, especially as another strong black woman. I did get to see her again in Cincinnati, OH in October when she was a guest artist with the Cincinnati Pops and they were recording it live for an upcoming CD. I also got to meet her and tell her my wife’s story, and she was unbelievably compassionate and gracious!

I’ve been a female vocal lover for 30 years and she is the “Real Deal.”

Cheers,
Todd

Merry Christmas Everyone!

I’ve been a bit out of the loop for a while, but I look forward to beginning a new chapter in my life in 2018! It will of course include my lifelong passion of music!
  Plus I have a wonderful, beautiful singer-songwriter in my life! Can’t wait to do some of my own recording of the actual artist to really test our wonderful playback system😉!
  I really can’t express how enthralling it is to have someone sing a newly created composition to you to ask your opinion! It’s a whole new wonderful musical experience in my life!

Cheers, Todd

Good morning Peter, well afternoon for you of course

I would like a 100cm Lush!

So glad things are rolling along!

I keep a hopeful watch on my email every morning for the email from Peter saying it's time to box mine up and send it his way

I can't wait to hear additional audition comments as things break in.

I still find it unbelievable that for some of us who have had the NOS1 for years that we keep getting an upgrade path. That speaks volumes to not only the foundational design of the NOS1 but also to Peter's passion and his customer service.

To all of us that have been audiophiles for over 30 years, we know this is wholly unique!!

Hey Guys,

Sorry to pipe into this conversation so late, but I've been running HQPlayer from the RAM OS with W10 14393 for about 3 months now. I did not, however, know I could run it at 705Khz through the NOS1 dual input mode. So I was only running it a 352 in standard input mode. I guess I just got lucky, because it ran from the start to the NOS1a without any issue. But now a big thank you to Peter for ironing out the idiosyncrasies of using it with the NOS1a and up to 705 and 768k!

I found XXHighEnd still preferable for PCM playback. I was really using it more when listening to a Holo Spring DAC in DSD mode. I really wanted to hear how that sounded coming from the Mach II and RAM-OS. It worked great for that, but other than Mani's purpose of using Roon as a server to his secondary office set up,  I wouldn't use it with the NOS1a.

Also of note in my little experiment, I found that if I wanted to use the Mach II with HQPlayer upscaling to DSD 512 into the Holo Spring DAC in NOS mode,  I had to switch out my Xeon 2650 v4 12 core to 6800k 6 core that runs at a much higher clock rate. Of note, the 6800k runs fine on the Mach II linear power supply even though it is a 135w processor. Maybe I need a 2nd Mach II

Todd

Hi Peter,

I'm having the same issue with 2.07, with no pattern to the albums that stopped showing cover art.(Not that many by the way) They have the same file extension as ones the work fine.

When I booted into 10586 with the same field in data(it was already the same) the cover art shows fine on those albums that were missing it in 2.07 under 14393.

Todd

Merry Christmas everyone!
May your season and music be filled with peace, love and joy!

Todd

Hey Peter here is where I responded to the change in plans on the B'ass to be put internally into the NOS1 on October 30th.

Hope my original place in line for the upgrade is still in effect

I'm definitely in Peter!

Let's just say these upgrades come at a good time, because your description of the resulting sound is exactly what I've noticed is currently lacking.

Thank you for your never ending quest of "taking things to the next level"

It's nice to know we all hav a foundation that allows it!

Todd

Count me in as well! Although I'll probably have to get Peter to check his shipping rate from the US, since mine are even more ridiculous.
Todd