Hi all,
I have now discovered such a most peculiar thing ...
When I was running the OS from RAM the first time(s) this exhibited a kind of scratching sound; possibly nobody heard this, because there will be very few people using the RAM OS Disk and NOT use the Intona. Now :
I can not guarantee it, because it went unnoticed, but I am quite confident that this scratching sound went away when the Intona came in. Also, that scratching sound goes almost unnoticable because it is soft scratching (like moving the needle of the turntable over the grooves gently)
and it seems to go on the beat of the music. I put that in bold, to be sure to bring across it is regarded impossible by me.
This is with Windows 10.
Another emphasis, but we'll see later why.
The description of what happens :
So we use Windows 10 and we have booted that from RAM.
Put something in the Playlist and press Play (Unattended).
Now the scratching occurs, seemingly on the beat of the music, and after ~30 seconds it has died out. All good now.
Side note : I used that on last year's X-Fi show with the idea that nobody would notice anyway. So that unnoticed it goes, only emphasising again that it happens on the beat of the music. Note though : not really on the beat, because it can skip beats. But when a scratch happens, it is on the beat.
It dies out by occurring on less and less beats, until you can't determine any more that it is there (I assume it goes away completely, somewhere after 30 seconds).
I never thought of it again as it did not disturb much in the first place PLUS I dedicated it to Windows 10 (which was 10074 back at the time).
Obviously I never thought of it again, because at some stage it really went away. Again, to my estimation and in aftermath this must have been the Intona solving it.
Then there was yesterday; the day that I thought to try Windows 8 once again (from RAM).
There was this strange scratching and it seemed to go on the beat of the music. I think I had been working on an hour to let it go away, after which I suddenly recognized it. "I have had this before, but where and what ...". Again I did not pay all that much attention to it, apart from the sheer fact that I couldn't get it away and saw no reason for it to be so persistently there. It did not occur to me that this could be because of the OS booted from RAM and all I could think of was the relation with the Linear Power Supply and that now suddenly something did not work well with *that*. But how ?
Because of a 100 other reasons (will post about that too) I started to change many other things, even up to removing the Intona. Ehh ...
What ?
The scratching stayed away.
Now wait a minute ...
This is odd.
Windows 10 booted from RAM without Intona : Scratching (with Intona no Scrathhing).
Windows 8 booted from RAM without Intona : No Scratching (with Intona Scratching).
The Intona is not doing this BUT it makes clear that this is a USB issue. Why Windows 10 the other way around from Windows 8 ? that beats me. Why from RAM OS only ? again it beats me (I did not check Windows 8 with a normal boot but I am dead sure that I heard it the first time with Windows 10 and from RAM Boot with that).
Btw, this is without Silverstone, while W10 without Intona always has been with Silverstone. Thus, while I could think about a voltage/current (USB) issue, I don't think this can be the case because the USB3 Mobo and Silverstone don't make a difference to this aspect (both USB providers are too different).
Peter
