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It is DUI-based, and as such for the best looks it requires Win7 and some Windows colour palette tweaking (in Win10 some of the colours are not editable). Best to use it on a dedicated machine, as some system windows may be hard to read in this colour scheme. There's no downloadable skin...

Are you using the Hilo Remote? It's much easier than the touch screen menus:

If my experience counts, you're on the right track. I have the Metrum Menuet and to me it's a fantastic match for the V281. I have tried a couple of Chord models as well as the Yggy and ended up preferring the Menuet. The latest Metrum generation may be a further improvement over that, but I...

No need to upgrade the DAC if all that bothers you is the single ended connection. In the V281 the preamp section is single ended, only the power stages are balanced. Signal from the balanced input is first converted to SE anyway.

That's actually by design: only one channel is connected through the balance pot. Don't look for a fault in your equipment.

and while we're at it: I mada a small update:

Not sure where I got it from -probably from the author's page when it was stil operational. Have been using it for ages. This link points to the same version.

So the seekbar doesn't cut it for you? You can click on any point on the track timeline and it takes the playback there. There are also enhanced versions of the seekbar which display the track's waveform and control the play position through the mouse wheel - check the Waveform minibar (mod) if...

One hint for all those who have just installed the foo_jesus component: if you want your playlists backed up (and I stringly recommend that), then go to Preferences->Advanced->Autosave & Autobackup and make sure that your playlists folder name is CORRECTLY listed in the Files and directories to...

Other users though have been using the foo_jesus component which backs up all the relevant files and maintains a configurable number of backup copies, all neatly zipped for minimum footprint....

I don't think you will be able to use equalizer or any other DSP with the DSD sources. They only work with PCM.

I think this component may help you.

The difference is that PCM typically uses 16 or 24-bit samples, while DSD is 1-bit. So if you multiply 24*192k you get pretty close to the DSD 64 bit rate (both about 5Mbps). In my setup I have archived the original DSD files and most of the time use their versions converted to PCM 24/96 or...

Update: That's probably as far as I can push it without switching to the Columns UI...

There is a pretty good Android remote app if you happen to use this platform: check the foobar2000 controller. You'll get much more than start/stop.

If all else fails, you can try the onboard weaponery: there is a ground lift jumper on the main board, which may help eliminating these noises. Check the manual for settings.

Thanks! Quite a few ones I haven't seen before. BTW: if anyone knows a working link to the skins editor, I'd appreciate if you could post it here! This is my current layout:

I'm not using columns ui but had a similar problem with multiple versions of the same album. What worked for me was editing the album title tag, adding some descriptor at the end (or even a space). From then on F2k sees it as two different albums.

My audio journey was somewhat similar - it also involved mp3 stage and re-ripping my collection in FLAC (luckily that was when my collection was still relatively small). But I ended up using Foobar as my player, and EAC as my CD ripping software. Whether it is Foobar or JRiver, EAC or Media...

It would help knowing what player and what exactly you're trying to achieve and why. Foobar can act as an UPnP/DLNA server (and renderer) - if that would work for you then google foobar upnp and you should get on the right path quickly.

Note that resamplers can be used not only to increase sampling rate but also to lower it. I have some 24/192 and 24/96 albums which perform equally well at 24/48, so to reduce the storage footprint on my server and the network bandwidth my working copies are usually either 16/44.1 or 24/48. In...

It's been a while indeed - I don't even remember if we have mentioned resamplers at all? I don't see any in the 1st post... I recently stumbled across a really great one: Resampler-V. It deploys two of the best resampling algorithms: SoX and SSRC, and provides visual representation of the...

You should consider re-terminating the TH-X00 with an XLR plug. Makes a massive difference!

There's a bit more to playing DSD in f2k than just installing the ASIO driver, but the truth is you need it. Then you can follow this tutorial and that should work.