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sbgk wrote:

jesuscheung wrote:[
hmm... don't go against XA... i am here for SQ. MQn and XA are the only two players i know that every update involves better SQ. there is only one true sound, if two players output the same SQ, we can have some confidence in true sound. in vocal, XA and MQn are very close. for other aspects, MQn is much already better. i am actually trying to get people compare XA vs MQn so that shanpc would improve XA. in a way, yes i want to help improve XA as much as i would for MQn. if you dislike my comments on XA, i would stop.

just pulling your leg. the SQ is quite different between the players so am a little confused that you find them comparable.

the thing is that i cannot say MQn>XA on his blog. coz he already claims that his player is best on earth lol. i already told him MQn has much better piano sound. he didn't listen. it is a shame to see XA not getting better in aspects he may not realize. if people start to tell him, we'll have real competition between the two players.

sbgk wrote:Was speaking to a German guy called Christoph who was going to rewrite the mqn.bat as an executable, advised him to post his ideas here. He said he had signed up to tnh.

Here I am! Just need a few days for a quick proof of concept concerning some aspects. Just to be shure, not to post ideas that finally can't be done due to any reason. Hope to post a list with the most important functionality at comming weekend. As I can work only on the project in my spare time, it will take a few weeks, but I plan to post beta versions (that my be uncomplete/unstable) as soon as possible.
Christoph

Just stated to try MQn, ....

No sound, using a VLink-II. The dac (Matrix mini-I) shows 96Khz when I try to run MQn.bat. and silence.

The .wav files are on the NAS, do they have to be local ?

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Peter Stockwell wrote:Just stated to try MQn, ....

No sound, using a VLink-II. The dac (Matrix mini-I) shows 96Khz when I try to run MQn.bat. and silence.

The .wav files are on the NAS, do they have to be local ?

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yes, but it's about the quality of the silence.

try playing a 16/44.1 track, they don't need to be local as far as I know, suppose you could try it. Most likely your dac wants 24 bit. Does the dac normally show 96 Khz ?

sbgk wrote:

Peter Stockwell wrote:Just stated to try MQn, ....

No sound, using a VLink-II. The dac (Matrix mini-I) shows 96Khz when I try to run MQn.bat. and silence.

The .wav files are on the NAS, do they have to be local ?

?

yes, but it's about the quality of the silence.

try playing a 16/44.1 track, they don't need to be local as far as I know, suppose you could try it. Most likely your dac wants 24 bit. Does the dac normally show 96 Khz ?

It's the bloody V-Link-II, I pulled it out and just use the usb connection, direct to the dac.

The V-Link II shows in windows as 24/96k device, but the matrix mini-I is limited to 16/48k on usb, which is no sweat.

Sweet music !

First impressions are very favourable.

Where can I get the MQN.exec2 for usb ?

Using 2.59 sse4 intel 8 4 16 16 8.

Peter Stockwell wrote:The .wav files are on the NAS, do they have to be local ?

WAV files don't have too be local.
All my WAV-files are on a NAS.
Works fine

Most causes in my system when there was no sound comming from MQn:

- Wrong default playback device choosen.
MQn-player outputs too 'Default playback device'

- C++ not installed or not updated.
(on a fresh server 2012 install. On my system MQn only works after a C++ update)

Mark

markvandepas wrote:- C++ not installed or not updated.
(on a fresh server 2012 install. On my system MQn only works after a C++ update)Mark

Strange, no need to do any updates for C++ here. Not on Windows Server 2012 and not on R2.

jesuscheung wrote:

nige2000 wrote: Win 8.1 is a nice improvement
what did you think of it

according to XA, win7 is best for SQ. XA is making audiophile win7 installation iso. can't wait. maker of XA has best hifi ears i know on earth. he is almost never wrong on tweaks in regard to SQ. he is an enthusiast like us.

Hi,

I'm interested in those windows optimizations, but this is the first time I hear about XA.
Can you point me too the XA website?
I’m very interested in all optimizations XA applies.

Also from other sources.
What WIN7, WIN8 or Sever 2012 optimizations do other inmates now about?

Currently I only know server 2012 optimizations By Tchuyev which are targeted at Jplay.
Tchuyev scripts are much too intrusive (too my tasted) on one hand and on the other hand they are not complete. For instance: Tchuyev scripts don’t stop ‘performance checking’ and also do not lower the USB polling frequency.

So I’m curious too see what more optimizations scripts are out there and what they do.

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Most causes in my system when there was no sound comming from MQn:

- Wrong default playback device choosen.
MQn-player outputs too 'Default playback device'

- C++ not installed or not updated.
(on a fresh server 2012 install. On my system MQn only works after a C++ update)

Mark[/quote]
Where do i find these options?,can't get this working at all.Tried this so many times now.When i double click MQn.bat a file appears for 1/2 a second than nothing..
I'm using a Windows 8 64-bit,Intel core i3-2328m cpu@2.20GHz,4.0GB RAM,Intel graf 3000 with a JK 32 DAC...

markvandepas wrote: So I’m curious too see what more optimizations scripts are out there and what they do.

this is optimization recommended by JIE. i modded it. i "REM" out and deleted those settings i feel harmful to SQ. check it out. see if it helps SQ. see if i am doing anything wrong.

save it as a bat file. run it as admin.

@echo off
echo =====================================
echo Jie Extreme Player System Confuration
echo MODIFIED BY JESUSCHEUNG
echo =====================================
echo.
echo.

>nul 2>&1 "%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\cacls.exe" "%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\config\system"
REM --> If error flag set, we do not have admin.
if '%errorlevel%' NEQ '0' (
color 47
echo Requesting administrative privileges...
goto EXIT
)

echo.
echo Turn Off Boot Debug...
bcdedit /bootdebug off >nul

echo.
echo Turn Off Kernel Debug...
bcdedit /debug off >nul

echo.
echo Set Boot Status Policy...
bcdedit /set bootstatuspolicy IgnoreAllFailures >nul

echo.
echo Disable Dynamic Tick...
bcdedit /set disabledynamictick on >nul

echo.
echo Turn Off Hypervisor Debug...
bcdedit /set hypervisordebug off >nul

echo.
echo Turn Off DEP...
bcdedit /set nx AlwaysOff >nul

echo.
echo Turn Off PAE...
bcdedit /set pae ForceDisable >nul

echo.
echo Turn Off Drive Loading Disaply...
bcdedit /set sos off >nul

echo.
echo Disable Integrity Checks...
bcdedit /set nointegritychecks off >nul

echo.
echo Disable Driver Signing Check...
bcdedit /set testsigning off >nul

echo.
echo Disable TMP Boot...
bcdedit /set tpmbootentropy ForceDisable >nul

echo.
echo Optimized Execution Environment...
reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\mqnplay.exe" /v "DisableExceptionChainValidation" /t REG_DWORD /d 3 /f >nul
reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\foobar2000 uac.exe" /v "DisableExceptionChainValidation" /t REG_DWORD /d 3 /f >nul
reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\foobar2000.exe" /v "DisableExceptionChainValidation" /t REG_DWORD /d 3 /f >nul

reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\services.exe" /v "DisableExceptionChainValidation" /t REG_DWORD /d 3 /f >nul
reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\svchost.exe" /v "DisableExceptionChainValidation" /t REG_DWORD /d 3 /f >nul
reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\dwm.exe" /v "DisableExceptionChainValidation" /t REG_DWORD /d 3 /f >nul
reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\csrss.exe" /v "DisableExceptionChainValidation" /t REG_DWORD /d 3 /f >nul
reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\lsass.exe" /v "DisableExceptionChainValidation" /t REG_DWORD /d 3 /f >nul
reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\smss.exe" /v "DisableExceptionChainValidation" /t REG_DWORD /d 3 /f >nul
reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\wininit.exe" /v "DisableExceptionChainValidation" /t REG_DWORD /d 3 /f >nul
reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\winlogon.exe" /v "DisableExceptionChainValidation" /t REG_DWORD /d 3 /f >nul

REM These could be bad tweaks. Surpressed SQ
REM reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\OLE" /v "PageAllocatorUseSystemHeap" /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f >nul
REM reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\OLE" /v "PageAllocatorSystemHeapIsPrivate" /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f >nul
REM reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\OLE" /v "Tracing" /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f >nul
REM reg add "HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa\FipsAlgorithmPolicy" /v "Enabled" /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f >nul
REM reg add "HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa" /v "FipsAlgorithmPolicy" /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f >nul
REM reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\GRE_Initialize" /v "DisableMetaFiles" /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f >nul

echo.
echo.
echo ====================================
echo Done, Press any key exit.
echo ====================================
:EXIT
pause>nul