[Wokei]

I guess we need to re-title this thread "Help Skerry figure out why".

Save for a Hugo ....

 

[nmatheis]

  I am listening to FW2.5 as I type this and it sounds really really swell.
I fear it makes my butt look larger than previous releases did. Sigh.

Watch out, or Sir Mix-a-lot will come a callin' 

 
 
LINK for you young'uns...

 

[lee730]

Watch out, or Sir Mix-a-lot will come a callin' :wink_face:  

LINK for you young'uns...

Sounds painful. Salad on the menu?

 

[citraian]

Let's try this way 

Track 1: Duality - Slipknot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GWwohI5h1w


Track 2: The End of the Line - Metallica 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UT0CNhRuTEY

Track 3: Seeds of Gold - Closure in Moscow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZseL6VyddQ

Track 4: World Painted in Blood - Slayer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_PcXKk0adI


Here's what I got for DR

DR4       -0.29 dB    -6.12 dB      4:13 ?-Duality

DR4        0.00 dB    -5.18 dB      7:52 ?-End of the line

DR5       -0.19 dB    -7.04 dB      3:42 ?-Seed of gold

DR4        0.00 dB    -6.26 dB      5:53 ?-World painted blood

YouTube is using loudness normalization lately so this may not be the best way to test things.

 

[Dobrescu George]

YouTube is using loudness normalization lately so this may not be the best way to test things.

totally true, out of curiosity, i tested the tracks on youtube, they have 0% clipping.
 
Sorry, for derailing the thread so much. 
 
thank you everyone, for the help, it seems that maybe i do not like the exact guitar effects and such as much as i had thought.
 
Back to x5, and the new FW, i think that i would feel the wheel a little more preciese, but it still overshots so 1 click is not always 1 selection change, and about SQ i cannot say i heared any difference at all, but it sounded very good to begin with.

 

[elwappo99]

YouTube is using loudness normalization lately so this may not be the best way to test things.

 
I used some flac files of which the origins I cannot comment on......

 

[djselbeck]

Can anyone confirm that the DAC mode works with firmware version 2.5? It freezes my alsa linux audio subsystem. But downgrading helps

 

[Koolpep]

  Can anyone confirm that the DAC mode works with firmware version 2.5? It freezes my alsa linux audio subsystem. But downgrading helps

Works just as before on Mac OS X 10.10.3 - 24/192 sounds brilliant.
 

 
Cheers,
K

 

[djselbeck]

 
Works just as before on Mac OS X 10.10.3 - 24/192 sounds brilliant.
 

 
Cheers,
K

Thanks, i will try debugging later then. Maybe some usb3 problem, because this is what I saw after some quick debugging.

 

[Chris J]

So why does highlighting a selection of poorly recorded material merit such a sarcastic response?

Ooops, I didn't rralize you had embedded a link into your post.
At least you were being helpful, everyone else....to varying degrees, not so much.

 

[Koolpep]

Having such a blast today listening to this setup at work.

Amazing synergy, am now at 5 hours and can't stop.

 

[uzi2]

Ooops, I didn't rralize you had embedded a link into your post.
At least you were being helpful, everyone else....to varying degrees, not so much.

Ah, I see now how it could be misinterpreted. I'd like to think that if that's how I felt, I would have refrained from posting.

 

[bubba-ho-tep]

The one thing that I wish Fiio would implement on a future firmware is the option to sort by album artist instead of artist.  Using library search is impossible when you have multi-artist compilations loaded on the X5 because the artist directory gets so cluttered up.  For my uses, sorting by album artist is much more efficient.  All of my multi-artist comps are tagged as "Various Artists" under "Album Artist" with the individual artist names preserved.
 
Since Fiio has expressed no interest in such an implementation, however, I guess I'll just continue to use the folder browser.

 

[CH23]

  The one thing that I wish Fiio would implement on a future firmware is the option to sort by album artist instead of artist.  Using library search is impossible when you have multi-artist compilations loaded on the X5 because the artist directory gets so cluttered up.  For my uses, sorting by album artist is much more efficient.  All of my multi-artist comps are tagged as "Various Artists" under "Album Artist" with the individual artist names preserved.
 
Since Fiio has expressed no interest in such an implementation, however, I guess I'll just continue to use the folder browser.

you could switch the two around in mp3tag, that way it'll work for you

 

[Dobrescu George]

Sorry. Now that i am back. 
 
I started the subject of discussion, because i feared that i could had had a broken x5 DAC, and i wanted to know if everybody else gets the issue. this is why i really need help understanding what is going on. 
 
I really do not know if this is how the particular songs are supposed to sound, or if i have something broken in the chain. I get radio between stations static like in some parts of the songs, and i posted the links, just to know if everybody else gets something similar.
 
is there any way i can use replay gain to repair tracks that are loud, to make them better? or anything at all?