That's for now.OVER!
Hello hello - Peter here ...
I guess I am convicted myself now. Converted maybe.
Three days ago I started out making a post about some "honest sounding" albums. Wanted to write about older albums from Dr Hook, JJ Cale, Jimi Hendrix and their never (by me) before heard honest sound. Honest ? what the h*ck does that mean ?
Not sure ...
It expresses in drum hits being so real, smahsing of brushes indeed smashing. So distinguishing basses. Ehh, a very direct sound maybe ? And gooood (which is new to me for very direct sound).
The lower Lower notes from Jimi Hedrix, I'm sure someone with knowledge would recognize the guitar in question immediately. Always a nice job with new guitars each day of course.
But I guess the phenomenon "honesty" is a new one. Before I could talk about realism, or how real to realtity things would sound. Now there's just this honesty - as in "true to the recording" perhaps ? I don't know; it just keeps on slipping into my mind. And the point is :
I didn't post this three days back because I couldn't find the time, but the next day it went on, and now not with "picked" albums from which I could expect this. It went on with everything, up to ambient which now *all* seems to sound super interesting, and not only this handful I discovered so far. So, honesty doesn't apply only to honest recordings from 40 years and more back. It is in everything (?) from today just the same.
I didn't try many various settings, but I guess all started to happen when my internal latency was set to 128 samples, which even was an accident (earlier I had 32). So, after this first great night (three days back), started out for playing the day after that, saw the 128 and thought "oops", set it back to 32, but next thought that I will have been listening to 128 the day before. And, I didn't enjoy the music much. Well, as far as one can judge that in 40 seconds or so. So, set it back to 128 and there it happened (Special Mode btw).
CockRes is 12ms from the start - and from my theory it's better than low (FWIW !).
I guess it is all very fragile, and that indeed "magic" will happen at certain "matching" settings. A sort of : if those micro-aligned tiny waves don't match in space where they should, it's all gone.
On the other hand, it also feels very robust. The contrary from what I wrote before (without the RAMDisk); all albums "work", and for me it's always very important to "see" what my next album will be from what I hear from a former. And, that it works out as expected;
I have said that before, and it is exactly why I started playing older albums three days back; You can "see" that it will work.
May it be of importance (well, I think it is), I dialed in an SFS of 40 because it seemed to me that my system can take it (with 8GB of RAM and 1.8GB RAMDisk), also knowing that the larger it is, the less the system will do on things it "keeps on doing" and which will be once in the 30 seconds in my 32/352.8. case. If someone wants to match this with 32/176.4, it will be the same with an SFS of 20. Keep in mind : larger will be better, but you must be able to. Also, there's the responsiveness of course (the lower the SFS the better), but this may not be of importance.
I can play a whole evening like this, and actually I never encountered the necessity to reboot (but I will have done that before a new playback session for the day). Also to keep in mind, when people want to copy this : this is W7-SP1 and *its* memory organization in the first place.
And important or not : my OS is on the spinning disk.
However, it became silky smooth when I unticked Stop Services....perhaps a built in filter?
Well, if we could indeed look at things like this -which has the assumption of all being over the top somewhat- it would be a fairly understandable means for everyone. I am far from sure myself that this could be our base now, but this is the lack of experience so far. Oh, last Saturday I tried without RAMDisk again (all settings further the same), and I totally couldn't bear it. So, this "filtering" can be there by many means, and they will work up to around the clock-cycle level. Or, as I implied in the above : once per 30 seconds a very little (for a fraction of a second).
But I have another one, and although by no means something to try for better sound, it is something which should be very well audible, once we're at the levels we are at :
Play Attended, and move the mouse away from the XXHighEnd screen. Now play again, but put the mouse somewhere on the screen, but not on a button; find some empty space.
This should apply a filter in the realm of "memory organization", but some magnitudes higher as can be "done" without this;
May you encounter a too hefty filter, try it again, but now compare Unattended, both cases with bringing up XXHighEnd again - and now as before, with and without mouse being over the screen (just let it sit there, don't move the mouse). This latter applies a nicely small filter.
I never tried this, but it's all theory from looking at what the OS is doing.
Ah, you were crazy already ? then never mind.
Peter
