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Asio4all gives me buffer options for the Amanero Driver, without it I get nadda...
With Asio4all I can adjust the Amanero driver down to 64 samples and latency In & Out settings to zero, I also set 4 kernel buffers and the Big7 never sounded better.

I listened to an album I know well this evening and I heard more detail and depth than I ever heard before, it was an amazing experience.
Cheers, Pearse.

He must be using asioforall creatively!

I thought it was limited to 16/44 - though having never used it I do not know.

Being able to use it for latency adjustment is very clever.

It all seems impossibly wrong to me - it breaks all of my traditional audio values - but in the digital age maybe things are not what they seemed (past tense on purpose).

Your enthusiasm for this thing does make me take it more seriously than I have before.

I find it improves on my setup by applying a couple of 'changes':

- in RAMOS set DIMM configuration to 2x 4GB + 2x Free instead of 4x 2GB, this will lower sound quality loss from 30% to 20%
- do not use auto Phase detection as it does make mistakes and it will sound very off.
- in RAMOS run BHE from the attached SSD and not from the RAMOS, it improves in clarity.
- set priority level to realtime for InfinityBlade_SQ.exe and give it two cores for its own use by applying affinity for two cores to InfinityBlade_SQ.exe and set affinity for all other processes to the remaining cores and give them normal priority. This improves on clarity and detail.

It is difficult to a-b compare RAMOS to regular SSD or VHD based OS.

It is nice to listen to highres and DSD again.

The latest Thesycon drivers (2.26) have for ASIO an auto-buffer setting which determines the minimum required buffer setting for a particular sample frequency and automatically adjusts its buffer size and therefore automatically maintains a minimum latency.

Cheers

It works fine for me using Chord Asio and Jplay guys are using Jplay Asio . I haven't tried Asio4all yet and I don't think Chord Asio allows any extra tinkering.
Update: just took a quick look at Asio4all and it allows buffer adjustment but Chord does not.
Aleg , where did you set priority for Infinity Blade_SQ.exe ?

KM

Don't forget to try rewrite... a small piece of software written by Bughead author Mr. Hiroyuki Yokota....

Here's an overview...
http://2channelaudio.blogspot.com.au/20 ... phile.html
Please excuse the link to my blog.....it was easier posting a URL than regurgitating the info again.
Cheers

2channelaudio wrote:Don't forget to try rewrite... a small piece of software written by Bughead author Mr. Hiroyuki Yokota....

Here's an overview...
http://2channelaudio.blogspot.com.au/20 ... phile.html
Please excuse the link to my blog.....it was easier posting a URL than regurgitating the info again.
Cheers

No excuse needed that blog seems to be turning into a very nice site in itself. Looks great and a bit easier than the wild collection of thoughts dumped in single thread here

BHE had Rewrite built-in, each track is rewritten before playback.

Using Rewrite on itself, prior to playback with MQn, gIves a worthwhile improvement.

Listened a while to BHE in the best settings I could quickly find and it sounds nice for a while, but than when you change back to MQn, it doesn't come close my 4.25/9.12 combo which is again greatly surpassed by the recent V7 and later ldn versions.

So Gordon, you are definitely on the best track in this comparison.

Cheers

Aleg wrote:So Gordon, you are definitely on the best track in this comparison.

+1

As described before that is my impression as well.

Been listening to the latest version 4.81b3 this evening and its amazing the added detail and layering I am hearing on this latest version.
Pretty astounding what software can do!

I was listening to a Server 2012 R2 core mode VHD loaded without going to RamDisk this evening as this allows me to get everything RED in settings and then get High Class Professional mode.
Buffers as low as they can go in Asio4All as usual and using the recommended Blade 4 setting with MMX selected which they guys on the JPlay forum were discussing.
It takes longer to load this version as there appears to be lots of memory checking and preparation going on and rewrite appears to be doing more but it certainly sounds pretty extraordinary here, whether it is true to the original recording I cannot say but piano sounds great to me.

I just installed the full 4.81 version over my earlier version and restarted, then copied the 4.81b3 exe into the installation folder over the exe already there and away I went. This 4.81b3 is only for 64 bit installations by the way so be way!!!!!