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In Reply to: RE: cPlay 2.0b27 Released posted by cics on June 15, 2009 at 08:37:20
Hello, Cics, hello everybody! We are happy to get one more wonderfull version. This one is less "intensive" as 26, but much cleaner. Soundstage is very detailed, and the instruments and their respective lines are naturally separated, which was not so evident before. Also the highs are on a new level of intelligibility, being sharp and "furry" but smooth. Like sable fur. With this version SRC is gaining up, especially for me, with Sox my best setting was 97 minimal no alias. Overall a shining new development of my only player. I also have to report that, even after minlogon, I had been having short dropouts-hiccups appr. every 12-17 minutes with 26, while with 27 I experienced only 1 and much less pronounced. So, if any changes were done in this area, they must have been beneficial as well. I really enjoy 27.
Serge.
My question to Cics - can You tell me how does volume control affect the resolution? I am afraid to touch it, it is always 0.
First, I'd like to thank CICS for his wonderful contribution to audio. I agree with Serg in his observations on 27. It is wonderfully musical while remaining precise. On my system much better bass. Wider presentation of sound stage. I am running on a dedicated lap top with most of the cmp mods applied. Perhaps with less availble cpu power the code optimizations have an even bigger impact.
Last section of this post explains modern digital VC. cPlay offers 53 bit numerical precision, i.e. no resolution loss. I'm currently using this digital VC [-24db .. -30db] into DAC.
Analogue VC only has advantage when preamp's SNR betters DAC's. Juli@'s DAC offers a SNR of 114db - not sure if you can get an affordable preamp that better this!
This is an excellent software volume control.
I am using the lightspeed attenuator posted on diyaudio and find it a wonderful companion to cmp/cplay. Very affordable and to my ear allows the full potential of cplay to come through. No question that with cplay at 0.0 and the lightspeed handling -40db of attenuation the sonics are much more complete.
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