SFS = 4

[PeterSt]

Hey Charlie,

Thanks a lot for your fine and detailed elaboration on this. I think it is useful (for at least me).

I think I can add one rather crucial data point for you : this (topic) was all explicitly about Windows 8, where at some stage there was a kind of consensus that the SFS did not matter much anymore and many started using 120 (maybe because I did and at that same time we went down from the real large numbers like 370 or more). So, there has been a gap for everyone in the low-SFS areas, nobody (for W8 !) using the low numbers anymore. Until I tried that SFS=4 and found it a revelation - mind you, for the XXHE version at present.

Wasn't it you who was the last one going from Vista to W7 ? maybe. But anyway, I think it is time to go to W8 (not W8.1) because your whole world will be different. Especially with the latest findings which are related to Q5 (hardly useful in W7).

Best regards,
Peter

[charliemb]

Wow! That much better?
This is hard to believe but i believe you.

I just upgraded to win 7...  But will of course this will be my next move.

My bass is already great, so this makes me really wonder how it can be with win 8.  (also this is the first positive i hear about win 8.  )

You're right, q5 did almost nothing on win 7.

Thanks

[PeterSt]

also this is the first positive i hear about win 8.

Nah, c'mon ...
I think there is nobody in here who wants to revert to W7 after getting his stuff together for W8, which succeeds for everybody who had the fainted heart to try. It is only true that getting W8 right is not so easy at all, but this is how Q5=1 today helps so much.

W8 is ultimately better and I am really not the only one saying it (just follow the postings). But take your time for it.

BTW, the SFS=4 thing is not the easiest for digging out that bass generally; I think it has been written in this topic that it doesn't work for everybody and that much depends on the bass output (quality of) of the speaker in the first place. Also, not that many people responded to this so this is always dangerous (and don't take anything for a fact only because it is my own judgement). I'd say it is more valuable that someone like you, from a completely different direction/angle ever back came to the same.

Regards,
Peter

[charliemb]

(also this is the first positive i hear about win 8.  )

Sorry.  I meant as an OS in general.  In general, consumers of PC's don't like Win8.  Win8 is not a "where do you want to go today" OS,  it is a "where Microsoft wants you to go" OS.

My comment was not directed at an OS for music playback.  I tried putting it in parenthesis, but I really should have not made the comment.   However, my mistake provides an important point, namely your comment that no one who has tried it has turned back.   That's valuable info.

[PeterSt]

Everybody using XXHighEnd only sees W7 Charlie. It is W8 but looks (and operates !) like W7.