also running out of buffer, in attended and unattended, but in unattended even faster

after the update to the #02 the sound does not come back as before

split file size at 12MB

thanks

Placebo or not and I have to laugh about myself, but playing the #4 in sequences of 6 sec let me think: this is the best sound I ever got from my system 

Very analog, extremly clear, with a lot of sense for the space, sounds really live 
I hope this does not change once I can play a whole song 

Cannot await that you fix it!


Will post in the support thread my log file

Thank you

Sounds reasonable. If I remember well, I have seen something written about that.

thank you Per!

... even I am not a German - sorry!

To become serious again: during the comparison btw. XXHE and the known Win alernatives (JRiver, Foobar, MM) I have got the impression that XXHE depends less on formats (in my case FLAC<=>AiFF). With other words: by switching from FLAC to AIFF I observed with the classical software greater improvements in SQ (or less rel. difference in SQ) as with XXHE; but don´t have any clue, why.

Josko

Thank you Mani,

considering my "theoretical expectations" I am/was not really surprised and even less disappointed (with the DAC2  ) + share your opinions so far as I can follow ...

Finally XXHE is an additional attractive ball in the audio game and the playground has never been so broad as these days.

Apart of the good old analogue world: obviously the period has aready started where software will dominate more and more the setups and the related reachable results.

Josko

btw: Chapeau! You took a legendary name

Hi all,

my first post here 

I hope I won´t confuse more as I can contribute by now.

Thinking about my overall very positive experiences with the y-4 (which is at the same time my 1st XXHE version) I thought first that I should collect at least some 8 ... 10 listening sessions to make me familiar with XXHE. But after approx. 50% of those I have the feeling that I should share with you following:

1. my current favourite setting is NO OS in XXHE at all
2. followed by the 2x AP
3. and finally the 4x AP

This ranking seems to remain independent from the other settings.


- The #1 above delivers in my case (my individual taste & setup with a Weiss DAC2) at most the feeling of an analogue/real acoustic atmosphere.
- #2 seems to be more dynamic/accurate, with tighter impulses in bass, but seems to loose transients and esp. the feeling for the space in comparison to #1. It seems to drift in the direction of "digital" - impressive but virtual
- #3 finally goes along the path of #2, but significant further down the road and I can enjoy it only with an inverted phase - why ever!?

Nevertheless: XXHE, despite the lack of comfort in comparison with esp. MediaMonkey (with iTouch), Jriver and Foobar - is for me currently in terms of SQ the most enjoyable way to listen music reproductions; in addition to the good old analogue way.

It represents for me at that moment also the hope, that crossing the stream to the "Mac side" is not an obligation, when you´re searching for the SQ optimum.

Thank you Peter, so far!
Please proceed that way and don´t forget the "good upsampler DACs" - even if my impressions might change later on!?

Cheers

Josko


PS: My OS is Vista on a dedicated music notebook via Firewire to the DAC.