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Yes I'd contact Keith about it. You should be able to order it even though it's not in the store yet. But yeah, hopefully that gets added to the store soon also. ::)
@ HDMI yes, I know. If it were SPDIF/DTS over coax/optical, then the NUC would have no way of being effected by the receiver.
@ "soundcard", even an AoIP driver such as Livewire is considered a soundcard in Windows, even though there's no specific hardware for it at all.
The only cheap solution might be to find an *active* (not passive) HDMI switcher that doesn't cut off the incoming connection/s when the outgoing connection is interrupted/disconnected/switched, and use that between your NUCs and receivers.
Other than that Leif handles their sound, I would never tell someone more than that – in public, or in private – even if I knew. And I don't, because I've never asked Leif about it. 🙂
I've known and competed with Ari since the late 90s 🙂 and we've always respected each other, as well as working in collectives to fight against SoundExchange and the music industry's attempts to control streaming. I wouldn't be surprised if he somehow knows how my audio processing worked back then, other than simply hearing the #1 sound of course. 8)
I had a little time to look into this today. Found out that one of the anti-spam mods relies on having an optional feature enabled on the forum that we weren't using. I turned it on, and suddenly I can approve "spam" posts. All 3-ish that ever happened. Yaay. 😛
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As I understand it, you don't get the option to run as a service UNLESS you buy Remote Control.
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The "Management Package" license allows use of BaRemote, HTTP server, stream receiver, and running as a service.Some software only opens connections to the soundcard when they need to play a sound, and in that case it wouldn't reveal the same issues.
Also, there's multiple ways to open a connection to a soundcard, and this might only be effecting one of those ways.
Are you guys using Wave/MME, DirectSound, or Kernel Streaming to connect to your soundcard?
The reason I brought up loudness normalization was for comparing different audio processing, you need to compare at equal loudness.
Loudness isn't the same as signal level at all. So it's fine that you've adjusted the peaks of your library to be the same, but the loudness can still vary wildly.
I'm a member of EBU's P/LOUD group, and helped to create the international loudness measurement standard.
No, it's just something broken with the forum (clicking on the "Approve" button) that I need to fix manually, and I haven't had the time yet. It's just that something you typed triggered the spam detection (probably the links and where they are in the message too). It's only happened twice to real messages so far so I've been kinda procrastinating on it hehe. But admins and mods can see this topic.
Usually the first thing to try to adjust (for an HD core) is the Final Limiter Drive.
Both your station, and "Radio Energy", are around -7 LKFS loudness. Your station sounds more consistent on average, and less processed. "Radio Energy" has some tracks that aren't as loud, and sometimes there's extremely excessive amount of treble loudness, especially during station imaging.
Personally I'd be finding ways to increase time spent listening. Part of that goal is turning down your loudness and improve the quality of your sonic signature even more. -7 LKFS is very loud. 😉 Borderline extreme. People have volume controls, and that preset already has great consistency without needing to rely on peak control.
What you might try is creating a few minutes of audio from several songs, and run it through BreakawayOne (on a path that's not on-air obviously) with the current settings, recording the output. Then also record the same "clips", with Final Limiter Drive set 3dB less, 6dB less (if possible), and even 3dB more. Then you'll need to loudness normalize the individual recordings so they are the same loudness. You can do this with the latest Foobar2000 easily by using ReplayGain (it's using RG2 now) to scan the tracks as individual tracks, and then applying ReplayGain directly onto the files. Do it on copies of the original processed recordings of course.
Then… let your listeners, or perhaps a group of trusted ears that contact you about when you''re sounding great or not, vote for which ones they think sound the best.
I can already tell you what way that's going to go. 😉
Zara Radio needs to hear the tones, not Breakaway. Zara should have a setting for what soundcard to listen for them on, so that it can trigger things however you have it setup. There should be no audible tones going out of Zara, into Breakaway, etc.
tones –> zara –> magic happens –> breakaway 8)
Disable all of the soundcard's effects/EQs/etc… then see if the distortion is still happening while fiddling with Breakaway's "power" slider on whatever preset you're using… also try changing the loudness you're hearing in your headphones, to see if it's just the headphones blasting too loud or some other kind of mechanical noise in the headphones.
If there's no distortion from all of that testing, then it's (what i expect) your soundcard's effects/EQ/etc causing it.
Have you tried going into Device Manager, to your soundcard's properties, and if there's a "Power Management" tab, can you un-check "Allow this device to wake the computer" ?
Is your Windows 7 install 32bit or 64bit?
Are you using the laptop's in-built soundcard, or an external soundcard? What soundcard is it?
What power profile are you using or custom?
Have you checked in Device Manager to see if there's anything in the soundcard and all related bus devices under a "Power Management" tab that might have a negative effect? (usually "Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power")
Have you checked your laptop manufacturer's website to see if your soundcard drivers are updated to the latest version? Have you checked Windows Update to see if it has something newer after installing the latest soundcard drivers from your laptop manufacturer's website?
