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Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: XXHIGHEND-M2TECH - WIN 7
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on: March 04, 2010, 02:51:16 pm
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I kind of stopped checking it everyday, but I wouldn't know why not ...  Ok I wonder what makes this display tick ! Sometimes when I start it up, without any other programs running ( no players) it still shows this wierd off the chart bit value ! Could it be that some programs are running in the background, without me knowing ? I`ve only got Win Media players ( comes with WIN 7) Itunes and XXhighend installed on my laptop ! Any ideas ??? Apart from this, I think the XXhighend combined with the M2TECH, are now playing MUSIC, but off course the end result depends very much on your DAC ! But still there`s no doubt ,that XXhighend has moved the sound quality to another dimension, compared to the usual players out there ! GOOD WORK SO FAR  |
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Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: XXHIGHEND-M2TECH - WIN 7
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on: March 04, 2010, 01:24:00 pm
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Mani, never mind. I just looked it up, and the secret is not so much of a secret at all (which is what should be the case). The point is though, that it seems that nobody seems to estimate the value of it properly. But that may be because I am a kind of used to make a decent DAC ...  I guess that some day someone will come up with it. At that time I will admit I knew it. What a tease Hi Peter what about your hiface display is it still showing the right values ? |
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Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: XXHIGHEND-M2TECH - WIN 7
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on: February 26, 2010, 09:25:28 am
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Hey gonz,
When you are using HiFace what are the lowest settings you can go with:
Special Mode=yes/no?
Device Buffer Size=?
Q1,Q2,Q3,Q4,Q5=?
DAP or QAP or normal=?
Thanks,
Ivo
Hi Ivo Maybe you should ask Peter about this, I assume he has been trying all options My settings as of now are, special mode/ Device Buffer Size=1024/ Q2-5=4/ double. I`ve tried lots of other settings and most of them works fine, but I haven`t really had the time to compare all the differences yet As I`ve mentioned earlier I`ll be doing some hardcore testing the next couple of weeks ,with 3 different laptops and RME FIREFACE DAC versus Accuphase DP-67 DAC . M2TECH versus FIREWIRE Connection and so on and on and on  I`ll post the results when I`m done  By the way, have you installed the HIFACE DISPLAY, if yes, does it show the right values ?? |
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Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: XXHIGHEND-M2TECH - WIN 7
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on: February 25, 2010, 01:23:39 pm
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Did you install the display.exe in the same folder as the M2TECH install ?? Yes, but it really doesn't matter, because the "install" you talk about is just a folder with files. The real install (of the driver) happens when you plug in the device in one of the USB ports, and that happens somewhere else (where/what we don't *want* to know about, haha). Well I didn`t think it would matter, but I´m just looking at all ,sometimes you make the silliest mistakes |
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Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: XXHIGHEND-M2TECH - WIN 7
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on: February 25, 2010, 12:47:54 pm
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Actually, I think we must look at this the other way around :
When you are *not* playing anything, it should say "Hiface S/PDIF by M2Tech". What I recall from when it was not working, is that already at not playing it mentioned that strange rate. Starting playback didn't make a difference. Now it just nicely switches from the text I just mentioned (at not playing), to the proper rate at playing.
Btw, I just checked it for XP, and there it works too.
Maybe it helps if you disconnect the SPDIF cable ?
But I wouldn't bother. It plays.
Peter
When it`s not ,it says Hiface S/PDIF by M2Tech ,but as soon as I start ,it comes up with 1Khz this is always the same, but the bit value changes fron 7 - 10 digits ! When I point at the hiface display with the cursor and left click holding the button down on the mouse, it changes to 97bits or 40 bits but as soon as I release the button, it goes back to the very very high bit values ! I`ve tried reinstalling the display makes no difference :-( Did you install the display.exe in the same folder as the M2TECH install ?? I hope to hear from M2TECH about this issue , well if not I`ll survive |
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Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: XXHIGHEND-M2TECH - WIN 7
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on: February 24, 2010, 07:49:24 pm
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The vadspdif.sys is used allright. I received around 672 BSODs from it, before I got it working. (my fault btw, although it is the driver which doesn't comply to normal behaviour really - but no problem). Are your hiface display still showing the true values ??? |
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Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: XXHIGHEND-M2TECH - WIN 7
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on: February 24, 2010, 05:39:37 pm
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Could this be a problem with the drivers ??
These are the driver details in my system !
C:/windows/system32/drivers/dmk.sys ( digitally signed by MS )
C:/windows/system32/drivers/portcls.sys ( digitally signed by MS )
C:/windows/system32/DRIVERS/vadspdif.sys ( this is the 1.03 driver from M2TECH I wonder if this one is overruled by windows because it is not digitally signed by MS ?? )
Or are they all being used by the system, I`m not all into the technical stuff ?????????????
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Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: XXHIGHEND-M2TECH - WIN 7
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on: February 24, 2010, 04:40:18 pm
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Just wait until tomorrow. With me a took a day too.  (just leave it in and leave everything on ... who knows that helps) But once it started to show the right values, it never showed it wrongly again. Btw, I too saw too different weird high bit numbers, like you. Anyway, strange. Hmmm still the same problem showing 1Khz and different 10 digits numbers bits ??? I`ve mailed Marco about this awaiting his reply ! |
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Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: XXHIGHEND-M2TECH - WIN 7
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on: February 23, 2010, 07:50:49 pm
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Hmmm I`ve just used my sampler program loading the a wave 16 bit 44Khz playing it through M2TECH
Then I processed the same wave with the samplers bitdepht converter to 24 bit 96Khz and played this wave through M2TECH as well ! But the dispaly showed the same values 1Khz - 2009019551 bits !
It doesn`t matter if I use XXH , WIN MEDIA PLAYER or the sampler program itself as a player, it still shows the same value no matter what !
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Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: XXHIGHEND-M2TECH - WIN 7
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on: February 23, 2010, 06:16:07 pm
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Maybe start display.exe during playback ?
Tried playing win media player, same result  Hmmm tricky little thing this display ! Started showing the higher value, then suddenly in the middle of the song it change to the smaller value ?? |
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Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: XXHIGHEND-M2TECH - WIN 7
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on: February 23, 2010, 05:56:44 pm
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Funny ... at first I had this exactly the same, and thought it was a useless program. Then later, when I finished with everything, I tried it again, and time after time it showed reality.
At least try it with a setting in XXHE of which you are sure it works good, like Engine#3. I mean, suppose you are loosing samples, it (that display.exe) may get confused.
Peter
Now i tried again on engine#3, at first i was the same, then I stopped playback and started again, now it says 1Khz 2009019551 bits ?????????????????+ |
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Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: XXHIGHEND-M2TECH - WIN 7
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on: February 23, 2010, 05:37:28 pm
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Hi Gonz, Further, the 1.03 driver version contains a display.exe and it shows in a small display what the HiFace is receiving. Of what I saw from it this is always correct. This includes feeding it with 24 vs. 32 bits (because it can cope with both). Notice that I can check this with my driver software, similar to how the Fireface will be able to show you the input rate, as received from the HiFace output. This is obviously way beyond my technical insight I`ve installed the display but when I play KS engine#4, it shows, Hiface playing 1Khz 1244768 bits ?? What does this actually mean ???? |
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