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Post by John on Feb 22, 2017 17:14:19 GMT
My understanding is it defrags the file so less errors But not sure
It improves SQ as you heard
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Post by John on Feb 24, 2017 20:26:41 GMT
Finally a really good listen between Foobar and BugHead 8.14 with rewrite being used on both
Good points of BH
1) Slightly deeper soundstage
Good points of Foobar
1) Imdediate play (no waiting for player to load)
2) Good sound quality not quite in BH class
3) Server remains cool (the server is not working as hard)
Revised findingings with power supply plugged in for a hour
I will be mostly using Foobar but will try BH updates
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Post by MikeMusic on Feb 24, 2017 20:32:01 GMT
My understanding is it defrags the file so less errors But not sure It improves SQ as you heard I wondered if it might be that. Amazing it improves sound quality |
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Post by Clive on Feb 25, 2017 1:15:35 GMT
Rewrite doesn't do anything for me but I'm playing off SSD, I don't know whether John is.
I need to compare Foobar and BH again. I too am now using Fidelizer which has significantly tightened the bass with Foobar and removed all edginess as far as I can tell.
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Post by John on Feb 25, 2017 5:48:22 GMT
I have SSD too and makes a sufficent difference
Weird such different results with rewrite
Glad Fidelizer is helping
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Post by Clive on Feb 25, 2017 7:35:11 GMT
John, just to check, do you have a big SSD where you store all your music or a smaller one for your system?
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Post by John on Feb 25, 2017 7:52:50 GMT
I store all my music on the inbuilt SSD
However when I recorded the files it was using SATA
In future I will be recording direct to solid state
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Post by MikeMusic on Feb 25, 2017 9:06:49 GMT
To get such a noticeable difference rewriting is barely believable - but I heard it with my own ears.
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Post by Clive on Feb 25, 2017 9:29:19 GMT
I've experienced differences with rewriting previously but for some reason not in my current config. I'm going to be make a number of comparisons today so I'll have another go.
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Post by MikeMusic on Feb 25, 2017 11:04:03 GMT
Please report back.
This rewriting thing is mad
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Post by Clive on Feb 25, 2017 15:13:50 GMT
I've just tried rewrite with one of my test tracks with some aggressive piano. I think is make a small difference to some of the harshness of notes struck with considerable energy. It's hard to know what's natural harshness and what isn't as piano doesn't sound smooth "in-person".
I've also compared Foobar to BH 8.10 in black screen mode. I'd say the soundstage of BH is a little better and the treble is a little better defined. Whether it's enough to justify the hassles of the BH UI, well I'm not sure but I have the option to use either Foobar or BH at any time so it's not as though it's a decision I have to make.
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Post by MikeMusic on Feb 25, 2017 15:52:07 GMT
Thanks Clive.
I heard a nice step up when John rewrote the file on his system.
I find BH as a front end daunting to say the least.
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Post by Clive on Feb 25, 2017 15:56:24 GMT
I can't explain why on much the same hardware I at best get a small difference. Maybe when I copied the files to the SSD they went on contigously as you'd expect, it was pretty much the first thing I did when I got the kit.
My SSD is 1TB so there shouldn't have been much non-contigous space needed for my 500GB of music. I don't know exactly what rewrite does though.
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Post by MikeMusic on Feb 25, 2017 15:59:59 GMT
Stranger things happen all the time with our wonderful kit !
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Post by John on Feb 25, 2017 19:04:24 GMT
It seems like the linear power supply needs to be on awhile to get the best out of the server
I am getting back to the point of finding it hard to tell the differences between Foobar and BH
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Post by Clive on Feb 25, 2017 19:21:28 GMT
Which is a great result and just what we want!
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Post by John on Feb 25, 2017 19:26:09 GMT
Yes as Foobar is so much better to use
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Post by MikeMusic on Feb 26, 2017 8:57:20 GMT
Is this down to the warmed up PSU ?
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Post by Clive on Feb 26, 2017 9:22:27 GMT
Is this down to the warmed up PSU ? I guess it's hard for us to know. All I can offer is to measure the voltage on the 19V output just after switch on and say an hour later. I set mine to 19.04V so I'll see if it's drifted. My smps was 19.34V. Both figures are under no load conditions but of course the supplies are regulated. As for hearing differences then not hearing them; I'm not remotely saying John's done this but I've been guilty on a few occasions - I've not given my system time to warm up and the latter music I've played sounded better because the system was fully on song after 15 to 20 mins. |
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Post by John on Feb 26, 2017 9:41:38 GMT
I generally do not have this as a issue so took me by surprise
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