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Aleg wrote:

sbgk wrote:...

v65 is the real deal, shall stop there.

V65 is a very good version indeed.
Looking forward to a multi-track loader now (so I can stop appending all my tracks into a single one when I want to listen to an album, doubles my storage space :-)

haven't listened to more than a track at a time for months.

I prefer v65 Gordon
v66 and v67 seems more "congested" in my setup
Thanks

sbgk wrote:

Aleg wrote:

sbgk wrote:...

v65 is the real deal, shall stop there.

V65 is a very good version indeed.
Looking forward to a multi-track loader now (so I can stop appending all my tracks into a single one when I want to listen to an album, doubles my storage space :-)

haven't listened to more than a track at a time for months.

I'm in my classical "wave" at the moment prefering classical music over jazz now.
Classical music is virtually all multi-track for single compositions.
So I've been joining several albums back into a single track again to be able to listen to it properly.

Aleg wrote: Looking forward to a multi-track loader now

+1

elaprince wrote:I prefer v65 Gordon
v66 and v67 seems more "congested" in my setup
Thanks

I also prefer v65 to v66.
v66 has some noise/haze, v65 no such thing.

vs 2015 rc expired, so now using vs 2015

uploaded v69 play (uses same code as v65) and loader v27 compiled with new vs 2015, seems to have made play 6kb instead of 5 previously. Sound might be slightly better.

Does it sound ok on win 2012 r2/8.1 as I built it for win 10 and wonder if it affects non win 10 adversely ?

Haven't done control as am changing it to multitrack.

Listened to play v65/loader v25 and play v69/loader v27.
v69 is clearly better.
v69 has more clearity and a fine way of presenting the music. Very nice listening.

janh wrote:Listened to play v65/loader v25 and play v69/loader v27.
v69 is clearly better.
v69 has more clearity and a fine way of presenting the music. Very nice listening.

+1, was very satisfied listening to v69/v27

Aleg wrote:

janh wrote:Listened to play v65/loader v25 and play v69/loader v27.
v69 is clearly better.
v69 has more clearity and a fine way of presenting the music. Very nice listening.

+1, was very satisfied listening to v69/v27

only concern I had with v69 was a slight drop off in treble, tried moving some instructions around and v71 sounds better to me, don't think I'm imagining it, but you never know.

before

mov rdx, r14 ; 400010C5 _ 49: 8B. D6
mov r10, rdi ; 400010C8 _ 4C: 8B. D7
mov rax, rsi ; 400010C2 _ 48: 8B. C6

after

mov rax, rsi ; 400010C2 _ 48: 8B. C6
mov rdx, r14 ; 400010C5 _ 49: 8B. D6
mov r10, rdi ; 400010C8 _ 4C: 8B. D7

just spotted another optimisation to the code - uploaded play v72, it sounds lovely.

do registers sound different ?

v73 has the r14 register swapped for rbp register

mov rax, rsi ; 400010C2 _ 48: 8B. C6
mov rdx, rbp ; 400010C5 _ 48: 8B. D5
mov r10, rdi ; 400010C8 _ 4C: 8B. D7

think it sounds better, better tone if anything, why the difference ?

maybe r8 - r15 registers are located in a different place to rsi, rdi, rax, rbp, rbx, rcx, rdx

anyway shall stop there, enough of this unscientific nonsense.

only problem now is all the distracting noises in the background, nails scratching on strings and breathing etc that I can hear, is this hifi ?

V69 < V71 imho. Noticeable since first seconds. It just makes picture bit more alive with better note edges with help of more trebble energy, though not even close to bright sound!