All,
Yesterday I finally did what I planned - and was excited for for some days : I revisited Windows 8.
I did so, because I encountered just too many strange opposite effects with our Linear Power Supply, as described to some degree in here :
Eureka !.
So I sensed a big change coming up ...
Context of changes since the last time I tried Windows 8 :
- B'ASS post amplifier
;
- RAM OS Disk;
- Intona USB Isolator;
- Linear Power Supply to my Audio PC.
So not even the least set of changes !
Well, it was beyond expectations. Let me try to put it like this :
For 3 hours in a row I have been shocked.
Very first apparent shock : No W8 robot in sight !! (this has always been the culprit with W8).
It now is the very very opposite. Man, what a MUSIC.
Second shock wave : It has always been very difficult for me to get Donna Summer et al in my list of demo tracks; I had two since the B'ASS (think of my reporting of "dance" starting to work well now), bbbut ...
This beats all. I played I Feel Love (live version) and I did not play it really loud at all. Still, all I could see was a smokey hall and people jumping up and down on that way powerful beat with such a slam that I could not imagine where the sustaining accuracy came from. This is how things can shock : it goes beyond possibility. Still it happens. Open mouth stuff.
The above was not under the influence of anything - also not extacy itself; it happened in the first 30 minutes of playback and I guess I played it because I felt it would work. And this is because of after burner shock #3 (which just as well could have been #1 but it is just what you run into first) :
The
BASS.
With open mouth indeed for that 3 hours in a row I have been observing what the heck actaully all happened and how it could do that. Hey, we some times read about people expressing about "one octave lower". Can I, this time ?!?
It made me think back about a similar expression (sort of) about Windows 10. "That bass !". So how can I say such a thing now again about going back to Windows 8 ??
I think it can happen like this :
The bass of W10 is a smooth, deep one. But actually it never really touched me, while at the same time I have been thinking a lot about "those were the days bass time". Hence, although I easily accepted the whole (for SQ) I knew or felt that it had been better in the bass department;
During analysing it, it came to me that this really low bass is audible for its individual cycles, while the "lower" W10 bass does less of that. OK, I have talked about such a thing many more times often - say how a distorted bass can be perceived as lower (technically it is because the repeating cycle is longer). But it is "low sound" and less of an
instrument with low frequency.
Another means I seem to legitly use for justifying the W8 bass being the better one, is this :
With Windows 10 I have been able to run into various sources for letting the bass colour. Of course this is about my hobby horse of all needing to be neutral (you may not be disturbed by it), but if you - for example - would read back about my B'ASS endeavours, you'd easily see how I ended up where I ended up and which I call "two steps of amplification" (with the option for you guys of more). But, now and then I sneak in a third, because I made a switch for that (so it can be tested)). Now ? ha ! now, despite the bass being crazy to begin with, I'd easily add 3 steps more; you just can feel that it can take it, because if "this" is possible, all is possible. It is actually similar to "infinite highs" I often talk about, but now with bass.
Alain, are you listening ? ...
... at this moment there is a down side ...There is something not right with the highs. Or at least with some albums I could play in the short period of time, yesterday. Coincidentally the same Donna Summer is the example. Her voice is like a high-rev sawing machine (same fashion on two different albums).
From your descriptions, Alain, I kind of felt you could be meaning that kind of "shrillness", but I only saw today in your Sig that you are using Windows 8. Coincidence ?
Let's say coincidence, because prior to seeing that, I already decided that a capacitor on the LPS of the PC is too big and should be smaller; this was changed minutes ago and so tonight we have another chance. And if that cap does not solve it, I won't sleep until I do my other means.
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