Well it was a slog, downloading the 64 bit W7 ISO but it was worth it.

Instant sonic upgrade when I got the W7 shell installed and substituted for the bloated W8 shell.

Very enjoyable now.

Thanks Peter

Mark

Hi Peter

Thanks for the speedy response.

It seems Windows Defender is properly shutdown and I went through the Activation process again (having found the title bar was still showing in blue, so maybe not properly activated).

Now that is properly sorted - title bar text shows in red - Minimise OS seems to behave as it should.

I am currently downloading an ISO of W7 64bit Pro, so I can try to run the W7 shell. (only 2.5 hours more download time to go!!)

Mark

Finally got around to activating XXHE on Windows 8 64bit.

I cannot get it to boot into Minimise OS. There is a messgae that tells me it is not possible and to get in touch with Phasure.

Does this process require the Windows 7 Explorer patch? I have not done this as I do not own a Windows 7 64bit ISO.

Looking through the old posts there was another questions about the same issue where it seemed that the Activation had not been applied. In my case all seems well with my Activation status (I can change CPU Core Appointments etc).


Thanks

Mark

Peter

Thanks for the swift reply.

Not a problem, we each choose our path and in doing so exclude alternatives.

Keep up the good work.

Regards

Mark

It's been a long time since I logged in here, as I moved away from XXHE for non-sonic considerations.

I now have a PC/DAC set up that works very well for me and it might be time to revisit XX now that the new version is available.

Question is, can XX work with ASIO drivers? I have a EXADevices Asynch USB interface which is working very well upto 384k sample rates (much of my recent purchased music is at 96k or 192k samplerates).

Having invested in this hardware to feed a ESS Sabre dac, I am keen to get the most out of it, so would be interested to try Peter's latest and greatest version, if it stands a good chance of working.

Thanks

Mark

Gerard

That's exactly what I get. I've given up, removed the card and gone back to the Audiophile which is happy to send 24 bits at 92kbits/sec to my Buffalo24. It does sound very good - I was just hoping I could try the 4x upsampling on offer now.

Thanks Guys. Peter, if you ever do get the 0404 to play nice, please let us know and how!

Mark

Hi

Is this DAC a known issue with XXHighEnd? I have tried to get this soundcard working on mmy Vista PC (SP1). I have the latest soundcard drivers, it works with iTunes and Sonar 6 etc. But no matter how I set the DAC settings I  get an error with XXHE (any of the several versions I have tried). It says "DAC Unablle to accept this byte sequence...) Then it shows me a small window with something like 2|44100|16|176000 which I would guess is 2 channels, 44.1khz etc.

Using an MAudio Audiophile 2496 card, I have no issues, but I believe the Emu card supports upto 192khz which would be nice for quad upsampling Arc Prediction.

Anyone got this card working?

Thanks

Mark

Will do

I download 0.9w-4, listened to a few tunes then compared those tunes using 0.9w-3.

At first hearing, "4" seemed to work well, but when I went back to "3" my Buffalo Dac gave me a richer, better-resolved musical rendition of the well-known (to me) tracks I chose.

"3" seems to have more energy, more top-end. "4" seems to have a smoother, darker sound.

I cannot say one is "better" or more "true". But I enjoyed listening to 0.9w-3 more.

Mark