aahhhh...thanks Russ.
Good as gold now.
Sorry Peter ...guess I was clear as mud. Made sense to me  At least Russ deciphered it. Must be an Australian thing he he
Interestingly I changed IC's to some shielded and grounded ones and now have a very low noise floor coming through the 96 db speakers. So am playing with the (unbalanced) analogue out. Very nice it is too. Plus avoids the spdif issue.
Thanks
Andrew

Hi everyone
I guess this is directed at Russ & Peter.
I can playback via Audio Engine 3 via my ESI Juli@ spdif but not via my ESI Juli@ analogue; the latter only being available with AE2.
I have the latest drivers.
Any thoughts?
Best Wishes
Andrew
ps log below - whoops first log I am trying to do a dac test with a 24/48 file...

Thanks

Forgive my ignorance
do you need to install the hot keys separately as with 09-x5b?
If so how do you do it?
I get permission denied when I try and delete the current hot key folder...which is another way of saying - how do I get up level administrator privileges.....?? It's different to 'root' in linux I understand.

Thanks
Andrew

ps how to cut and paste the licence code to undemo? my 09-6a is not having a bar of it....
pps any chance of adding a shortcut in your left click mouse menu of "Play in XX High End" and "Enqueue in XX High End" ala Foobar so I can go straight from folder instead of from inside the player (which is a pain).

Yes Peter it did! Another one tonight.

Really OT now (sorry) but after discussions with Russ this afternoon (and his invaluable help in setting up the hot keys and library gallery   ) I see why you have set it up as you have. At first glance it is abit counter intuitive...but with sound like this who cares about minor inconveniences like organising a gallery.

The SQ with services stoppped is >>> than without
And I rather like setting a playlist to play and sitting back - it's like playing an LP.

I experimented with all sorts of q's etc and find in my system (Juli (latency= 48) spdif out to the Ergo-HD650's at the mo) I like your set up of Q's=4,0,0,0,0 Scheme 3. Having said that it all depends I suspect on your DAC and how it interfaces.
I'm interested in your I2S interface...I wonder how you did that.....hmmm.

Thanks again Peter and at my end Russ!

Cheers
Andrew

slightly OT but slightly On topic I can happily report dramatic improvement in SQ by stopping services (or those that remain after after the cmd line escapades) and controlling via hot keys.
Don't know why - it shouldn't be that dramatic but it is - a much "darker" background and lowered noise floor.
Playing:Jacques.Loussier.Trio - Bach Goldberg Variations (2000) and all instruments are very sharp, localised and have high res. Excellent.
Cheers
Andrew

Hi Peter
all fixed - juli plays when selected with HDMI enabled - DAC test below.
I'll post logs if any more issues.
Thanks
Andrew

coolio 
Oh silly me ...I just enabled the "show disabled devices" on the playback devices and up HDMI popped...easy peasey.

I've attached 2 failures with the HDMI enabled and one success with the HDMI disabled (I think...it's getting late). 

Awesome sound quality I am getting through my HD650's - zero noise floor  ; exceptional particularly on a cpu/ram hog like Vista: I like it best with services disabled and a low Q1 (although makes it a tad unstable).
Latency doesn't appear to matter so much for playback (to me). 48 induces a lot more cpu load etc than 256 so I figure it's much of a muchness.
Well done Peter...you Sir are a veritable genius .
Russ..mine is an onboard 3200 chippy with integrated hdmi.
Really in a week or so when my stereo is up and running again I won't need the HDMI any way.
Cheers
Andrew
ps .9-05b sounds better than .9-04 to my very junior XX High End ears...

Hi Peter & Russ
right-ee-oo....0.9x-5b all up and working: thanks 
I installed 1.05 straight away as it is their sp1 driver (I think).
The trick was to disable the HDMI then make sure i had all the formats ticked (whoops - only 48 was!) then no problem. I'm just running through a bunch of test tracks now to test all the 16/44 - 24/96 range and so far no problems.
Ummm Russ...how do I get the HDMI back on...we use it at the moment for the telly ---it's disappeared from sight.
Ta muchly
Andew
ps Peter do you still want logs or only if something plays up??

Hi mate
righto - I have 0.9x-4 installed and working in exclusive mode with the Juli@ over spdif to the Ergo. No problem at all with the right drivers installed. Now just the usual spdif issues ha ha. Sounds very good however.
I 've had a play with 0.9x-5b - it's a no go without disabling the onboard s/c in the bios (which is a nuisance as we use the hdmi out for the telly at the moment). That is XX High End defaults to the HDMI out when plugged in regardless of what is selected.
Cheers
Andrew

Hi Peter
I am awaiting the Juli before trying further with XX High End.
The onboard chippy is just too flakey to bother with - I have a suspicion the latest Vista drivers are just vista compliant drivers so can only really run AE2 with any success - which is about the same as native vista to me with the onboard chippy so no advantage there. Occassionally I get AE3 but it is flakey. The patch E3 file made no difference.
Interestingly I have been playing with linux mpd server ware and sonata front end with great success. It really is a great audio player as well. Plus a great benefit of linux is you don't have to do flips and twists to get close to zero cpu etc load.
What I look forward to is comparing XX High End w/linux mpd etc.
Cheers
Andrew

thank you for this thread...really nice.

Yup you are quite right
If Russ recommends it that is good enough for me. I've just bought one. Should have it in a day or two.
Thanks
Andrew

dunno.....just stopped working
I mucked around with Vista yesterday trying to tidy it up ...so that will be the problem for sure.
Is the FF400 that much better than a Juli@ for transport duties?
Thanks
Andrew

yup
have a look here: http://www.rme-audio.de/en_products_hdsp_pci_interface.php
gosh back to prob's tonight - no issues with engine 2 - runs the Ergo easily...but average sound quality. Having a nightmare with the 3....funny was working A -OK last night.
Might be time to get a RME 400 and be done with it...
The Engine 3 is what I am after..