Peter,

I have to put some things right here.
By accident I did not download version 0.9y-4 but 0.9y1c. That will explain why there is no checkbox for upsampling
I do run vista and are able to use engine 3
With the bitrate setting 16/44,1 engine 3 XXhigh-end lets me choose double or quad. Also in the 0.9y-4 version I did now install
trying to choose Arc Prediction I receive the message that this will not work with 16 bits dac

I sent a mail to ask Doede Douma wether his DDDAC1543 can do something with upsampled material. He replied that this dac will stop at 16 bit 48K.

To find out how the new options of XXhigh-end sound I switched to the REALTEC prodigy 7.1 soundcard in my computer that has lots op options for upsampling. I prommised Doede to let him know if I prefer DDDAC1543 in 16 bits or the 'cheap' soundcard with high-end upsample options. If you like I will describe that findings here as well

Werner

After reading the possitive news about the latest version with upsampling I yesterday installed 09-y4.
My dac is a DDDAC1543. After some tying and looking  I was able to play with double or quad option. Best sound with engine2 and double
Sounding far better than any version I installed before. 
I have a few questions though:
Nowere I find the option Arc Prediction Upsampling. Where should I look
In the settings I must leave the DAC on 16/44,1 any other value gives the message that y DAC can not handle the given value
How can I use the double or quad option is the DAC is on 16/44,1 ?? 
Anyhow, even with the settings as mentioned above the sound comes far more close to that of my analogue inout than ever before

Werner

He Peter,

I'm doing fine on this 
I built my new computer for Vista this weekend so I can listen again
to my music-computer and not to the MacBook.
I did some listening and there were no stops anymore, exept for XXHighEnd stopping
To prevent that i did the undemo, so now there are no problems anymore.
I think using Vista on the MacBook must have something to do with it
Getting myself away from the music-system seems the next thing to solve !!

Hi Peter,

Thanks for your reply. But don't pay to much attention to it.
By putting the delay to 1 second I don't notice the problem, and,
I'll try to change my 'music-computer' to play vista this weekend (new motherboard). Maybe the 'problem' disapears.
I posted the solutions more for you to see what is happening 'in the field' than to get ' the problem' solved.
I'll keep you posted !

regards
Werner

Hi Peter,

my version of 9a still stops after each track with engine#3.
It must be version 9a as there is an undemo button !
The error message I get is from Microsoft Windows:
'"XX highEnd engine#3 werkt niet meer er wordt naar een oplossing voor het probleem gezocht."
after a short while followed by this one:
"wilt u meer info over het probleem verzenden ?"
Also the music keeps hanging, as if a CD in a 'normal' player keeps repeating a very short part because of a scratch.
As I mentionend, putting the delay to 1 solves all the problems
I use the DDDAC1543 with USB interconnect by te way, no SPDIF

regards
Werner


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Hi Peter

Until now, with engine #3 on, I could only listen to 1 track.
After that, an error-mesage showed-up to tell me engine #3 stopped.

With my laptop not connected to anything I played some tracks with double option checked.
To my surprise there was no stop at the end of the track, The next track just started playing.
With the machine back to the system I can not play with double options checked. I get a mesage that the USB device (DDDAC1543) can not handle the sample-rate. Just out of curiousity I checked the delay option. That also works fine. with the delay set to 1 there are no stops between the tracks. I don't know why this is but will enjoy playing at least a few tracks before the demo version quits.

Will undemo as soon as I installed Vista on the computer I dedicated to music in stead ofusing my MacBook

Regards
Werner

Hi all,

I dowloaded the testtrack and played it a few times last night.
I could not hear any rattles or cracks. I did not like the quality of the track so much.

I also tried to reproduce 'my own rattles' so I played the same tracks as yesterday morning. Nothing !!
To make sure that it is not the mains (I use no filter) I tried again this morning, but also no things you don't want to hear.

Just because I am curious I tried some tracks I upsampled some time ago in Linux to 48K
engine #3 starts playing them for a few (about 30) second before ending up in hissing noise.
Long enough though to hear that an EAC 44,1 K rip sounds better.

Werner

Peter,

I installed XXHighEnd-08a on my MacBook under vista yesterday.
Worked right away. 2 things are remarkable though.
Like Hal3101 I do hear kind of crackles on high dynamic passages in the music.
And another rather curious thing happens. When I load a number of songs, XX starts playing
the first. Once the second should hbe heared it is silent, but the cursor moves. If you do nothing it will play the third and not the fourth and so on !
If you click 'stop' and play again it wil play the 'hidden' tracks. So out of the chair after every song. Had to start XX again every few tracks anyway.

Sounds very nice by the way engine #3.

Regards
Werner

Thanks for that Peter,
I did already part of that but clearly not enough.
After struggeling an evening with service pack 2 and the links you posted, XXHighEnd works under windows XP (on a machine with only about 0,6 Gb RAM). I had no time to listen long but from what I heard (with engine 2 and double) it seems better than under Vista on my MacBook. After good listening I'll let you know some more in another topic.

Werner

Hi Peter

After enjoying XXHighEnd a while on my lapttop with Vista, I tried to install it on a PC with windows XP. So I first installed windows (it only had linux) and downloaded xxHighEnd. As soon as I try to open the program windows shows: 'kan de toepassing niet initialiseren (0x0000135)
klik OK om te toepassing te beeindigen'. And that is it, no XXHighEnd, no music   
Do you have any any idea how to solve this ??


thank you in advance
Werner

Hi Peter, Klaus

The linux set-up I used to play with:
Ubuntu 6,17.11 kernel
tracks upsampled to 48K with SSRC
timer set to 1000Hz
latency in Ecasound 64 (mS?)
playing the tracks from RAM
Alsa: nrpacks=1

I have to do some more listening to compare tracks 44.1 and 48K.
The 48K tracks I listened to were ripped under Linux (with Grip) and upsampled in SSRC also under linux
(and then put on my vista machine with an usb-stick)
The 44.1 EAC ripped tracks seem to have a deeper stage, and pulling me more in to the music.
I did not already do an A-B test with the same track 48K against 44,1K ripped by EAC.
But since I am curious to know I will do that test and let you know. I sure think it has something to do with the way the CD is ripped

Regards
Werner

Yesterday I installed XX on my new MacBook. It has a dual-core Intel processor so you can make it Dual Boot to run Vista.
No probems with the installation, and XX saw my (DDDAC1543) usb-dac at once.  After listening a few hours last night I found out that:
The sound is beter than the configuration I played with untill now; a Linux OS with eca-sound, tweaked where possible. The difference is not that big though. The step from foobar to linux was far bigger. I hear a wider stage, not deeper, about the same 'non-digital' and slightly more detail in the music. You get more invoved, its pulling you more into it.
I also found out that the his/pink noise that starts from time to time is terrible, The programe loves to stop at once, or with a message from Vista it can not be run any longer, and very surprising: some tracks are husseled. You start listening JJ-cale and in the middle of a song you go on with Diana Krall. !!!
Because Vista also makes it possible to use EAC, I ripped 2 CD's that way and compared that to the 48K files that were ripped and upsampled in Linux. To my surprise the EAC 44.1 K sounds slighty better. By the way, what programe you can use in Vista to upsample ??
Since the sound is better, and I assume that the real version will run without trouble I think I will make the linux comuter a dedicated Vista operated computer for my music (if XX is not too expensive)
You did a nice job Peter

Werner