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I *have* to say it again, this 1024 sw with several tweaks to timers and clock rate on 23220, is absolutely the best I've ever heard and not by a small margin.

Bass is really lovely, with a lot of details of reverb on cello bass strings that I never heard before.
Great clarity to the the sound overall and good spatial reverb.

Gordon you can stop now, I need nothing more. :-()

Back to listening.


Cheers

Aleg

Still can't get sw, sd etc. to play. Just distorted and slow. It's kind of like Jplay when the Ultrasize settings are too low. Must be something simple I need to change but I've tried Win32 and clock rate changes but doesn't help.

Hi Aleg, good to see you here from Jplay.
I tried the clockrate registry change to 23220 today(from 10000) with 1024 sw and the sound was very nice indeed. I'm using John Kenny's Ciúnas dac and there's no buffer control (that I know of), maybe John can comment. It played a couple of albums fine but when I went to play a third album , all 16 bit, the music juddered and didn't run smoothly. i set the clock rate back to 10000 and all was well. Any ideas?
KM

Ken Moreland wrote:Hi Aleg, good to see you here from Jplay.
I tried the clockrate registry change to 23220 today(from 10000) with 1024 sw and the sound was very nice indeed. I'm using John Kenny's Ciúnas dac and there's no buffer control (that I know of), maybe John can comment. It played a couple of albums fine but when I went to play a third album , all 16 bit, the music juddered and didn't run smoothly. i set the clock rate back to 10000 and all was well. Any ideas?
KM

Hi Ken

Thanks for the welcome.

I experienced that also a few times, but only when playback was started with mqnload and never (yet) when started with mqn.bat. So what I do is just restart but with mqn.bat and all goes well.

I can't explain it either, but it is as you say it is a kind of juddering playback.

Maybe gordon can shed some light.

Cheers

Aleg

I've not had much time to play recently but I have set the clock to 23220 from the default 10000, on 2.71 1023 raw background I find the "butteryness" has gone. Much more resolution and openness.

Aleg where do you disable HPET timer, bios or Device manager?

wushuliu wrote:Aleg where do you disable HPET timer, bios or Device manager?

Bios and, if it doesn't disapear from device manager, disable it in device manager.

Cheers

Aleg

wushuliu wrote:Still can't get sw, sd etc. to play. Just distorted and slow. It's kind of like Jplay when the Ultrasize settings are too low. Must be something simple I need to change but I've tried Win32 and clock rate changes but doesn't help.

I had that problem with the old versions, but not with the new ones. Have you checked those out?

tanopereira wrote:

wushuliu wrote:Still can't get sw, sd etc. to play. Just distorted and slow. It's kind of like Jplay when the Ultrasize settings are too low. Must be something simple I need to change but I've tried Win32 and clock rate changes but doesn't help.

I had that problem with the old versions, but not with the new ones. Have you checked those out?

Lol, didn't know there were new versions of the new versions. Thanks.

EDIT: Got them working now. Phew!

After more detailed listening, I can say that my favorite version is 2.71 intel raw.
The 1024's, specially the last ones are to filtered, to dry, no air with missing details and highs. No life!
I hate to be a party-breaker, but this is just my opinion and that is how it sound in my system.

Does anyone knows how to find HPET in BIOS in Zuma?