NVA 'TFS': 'The Future Statement' lands at Marco Towers...

[docfoster]

The Ella and Louis tracks sound bloody marvellous on standard CD, especially with large decent speakers to reproduce the range. The old tape's noise floor is barely greater than 13 bit though I suspect, so if the hi-res file sounds better than the red book one, there may be another reason for all I know?

Ah. I don't have the CD for comparison. May be it sounds exactly the same...!
I have the 'plays wc handy' cd, which is impressive. Amazing how great those old recordings sound next to many modern efforts.

[Marco]

Click the main xonar icon on the desktop. The icon in the bottom right should appear as the main control panel opens.
I think Asio requires manual adjust...? Jason will slap me if i'm wrong...

Ah, I see what you mean... The control panel appears, where bit depth is mentioned, but the adjustment is disabled and the setting rigidly set at 16-bit.

Any idea how you would activate the adjustment?

Marco.

[Ali Tait]

Try Johnny Hodges/Duke Ellington "Side By Side" from HDTracks. A great recording IMHO.

[Figlet108]

Ah, I see what you mean... The control panel appears, where bit depth is mentioned, but the adjustment is disabled and the setting rigidly set at 16-bit.

Any idea how you would activate the adjustment?

Marco.

Marco, the version you have is automatic - you don't need to do anything.

[Figlet108]

... I'm a fortunate in being able to build my own server and I'm also fortunate in having a friend who develops audio software for a living so you never know, we might just come up with something interesting when I've stopped scrapping boards and burning crystals and spending my money on building linear power supplies and USB interfaces.

John, that sounds like a lot of fun, especially when you can collaborate with someone with orthogonal skills. I'm sure your servers sound very good.

Obviously I'm not likely to be a customer, but that doesn't stop me wishing you every success with the project.
Having spent; possibly wasted, quite a few pounds on building then scrapping and building again I can only state again that if at £1800, your server can deliver the benefits of file based audio to those not so happy messing about with computers and compete with CD players and vinyl replay systems way above this price line, you'll have achieved in a single product what I've been banging on about since I arrived at this forum.

Thanks John, I appreciate your support.

Oh, the glowing Perspex tubes, brilliant sales strategy.

I can't take credit for that one. That was Richard's brainwave - he's a sucker for glowing perspex tubes

[Marco]

Marco, the version you have is automatic - you don't need to do anything.

Ah, I thought so - nice one!

Marco.

[Figlet108]

Marco, are you ripping to flac or wav? would be interested on your thoughts on the relative merits of each on such a source

John, Marco is ripping to AIFF since that's how I left it set up.

[Marco]

Indeed

Btw, now that I've got the TFS head unit and PSU suitably spaced apart (rather than just sitting on top of each other, as we first had it), I'm going to have to reassess how good the in-built DAC actually is, which is much better than I'd first thought - and that's just with 'ordinary' music rips!

Marco.

[docfoster]

Marco, the version you have is automatic - you don't need to do anything.

Ooo...get you with your fancy new automated features...!
;-)

[Marco]

Marco.