0.9y-4 - w00t ... but

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Here are the pictures.....

[PeterSt]

David - Select the Lynx digital interface, and lick Properties. In there go to the Advanced Tab. There is that drop down list I want to see !

Thanks,
Peter

(and don't give up)

[AUDIODIDAKT]

I Hope that the volume silder is not always down See your pic

I guess not, but just to be sure.

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Peter!  I got it working on engine 3!  I ended up trying Play 07+08 (Lynx AES16) and I could see on the Lynx Mixer than I was getting sound....but oddly it was showing up on channel 4....so them since my HD26-to-XLR AES/EBU cable was designed for channel 1 I simply remapped channel 4 to channel 1 and BINGO we got tunes playing!  Sounds great so far!  Got to experiment with the Arc Prediction. Also, my DAC is showing the proper incoming sample rate and the volume control is working for the first time.  Would you recommend using it versus the one in the Berkeley?

The only thing I'm hearing now is intermittently I'm getting crackling sounds on the playback...if I stop or pause and restart it then goes away....I think some other posters noted this as well.

THANKS so much for being so responsive through this process.  Very much appreciated.  We'll have to make sure this intel gets passed on to other Lynx AES16....I'm going to play around some more and see if it works on other settings.

Best,
David

[AUDIODIDAKT]

Good,

See my pic 5.

Try those settings, scheme 3, player prio = low, ThreadPrio = Realtime and try Q1 = 4 or try 14

then fool around with ARC

Roy

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Thanks.  Trying it now.  What does the Q1 control do anyway?

[AUDIODIDAKT]

These are some what good settings for most people,

Try to get what it does later (step by step) there is lots of info about that already on forum, just look for them (these can be quite technical, but its good information)

See pic 6 I added, try to get it like this, but do it step by step.

See pic 7 these are the Q= sliders (there is info about that either) use for now 0,0,0,0 or 30,30,0,0 like mine.

Try to find out what it does for you, lots of reading to do, haha
XX will grow on you!!

Happy listening

these are most important:

allow format change
start engine3 during conversion
copy to xx-drive by standard

[AUDIODIDAKT]

Later on this week we talk about Unattended settings, haha
Oh yes, it gets better and better

But first we have to be sure all your settings are fine (soundcard and such)
Its not the most used connection you have there AES, I mean.
Maybe do some more reading about your souncard and cable connection.
Don't rush, take your time!

Little jealous on your berkeley

[AUDIODIDAKT]

and have you seen this:

Tweak Vista/w7 dead:
http://www.phasure.com/index.php?topic=548.0

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Just tried the unattended settings....wow....now that was an immediate improvement in SQ.  Music became more relaxed, nuanced, detailed and with less glare....  amazing how reducing latency and power supply transients just a bit makes such a big improvement. 

Thanks for the comments on the Berkeley.  It was by far the best DAC I auditioned and easily bested my previous reference and it was the least expensive of all of them as well.  Have to admit I didn't try any USB DAC's.  If you just spend 5 minutes talking to Michael Ritter at Berkeley you realize what a brain trust these guys have.  I'll be interested to follow Peter's design for a non over-sampling DAC.

I love my Atma-Sphere OTL amps as well.  They really took my system to another level of realism,

Thanks for the note on tweaking Win7.  I had tweaked XP Pro using the BlackViper registry changes.  It definitely helped SQ.

BTW, what have you found to be the best CD ripper software?

Best,
David

[AUDIODIDAKT]

BTW, what have you found to be the best CD ripper software?

You want to get your fine albums on your HDD. Haha

Are you familiar with EAC (Exact Audio Copy)
Do you have any experience on that, already?

Otherwise I can paste some links here.(about optimal settings)

PS: Peter is also working on this (especially to get xx to play cd's "realtime" as well, with that great SQ, too)
     And when he can do that, xx can rip it too.
     But later on, maybe never.

Take my words for it, use A Blu-ray writer drive for that (its not proven that its rips better, but believe me it does)
Something like LG, have to look for the model-type

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Thanks Roy.  I use EAD now.  I'll have to get a BluRay drive for my rips.  I just have a high quality non Blu-Ray drive in my Zalman now.

BTW, how do you escape out of unattended mode and back into the XXHighEnd?

Best,
David

[AUDIODIDAKT]

haha, to get out of unattended (reboot)
Just thinking about that, if you had figured it out so soon.

read release notes and learn how to use AutoHotKey (AHK)
http://www.phasure.com/index.php?topic=724.msg5220#msg5220

If you have (understand) that, use ALT-X to get out of Unattended

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Will do....thanks!   

[AUDIODIDAKT]

When playing Unattended there can be nice coverart there. (where those red crosses from xx are)
Use folder.jpg for front cover and use back.jpg as back cover
and put it in the same folder as your music

Later on when you start ripping your cd collection, start off the good way in making your self a fine
music-gallery. (and good folder structure)
But first start ripping.

XX is most complete software outthere even for maintaining large music db up +10.000's albums