Athens Highend Show went well last week. Philippe sent me his pictures few days ago and also shared his exciting story below.
A lot of enthusiastic people. The ifi sales guys were saying this show is way better than anything they have in the UK. The dac and the R3 went well.
On the software side we had a shout out with the best analog gear in the world and they thought they would humiliate us and they were extremely impressed: the told us that it was one of the finest digital gear they had heard and when the total cost of the source including PC was 2000 euros compared with a 40000 turntable + phono stage. Well, what an optimized pc+good usb cleaning+mushichi player could do especially at this price.
We [including Fidelizer] are pioneers: in the high end community the fact that a pc can be a better source for audio than all this expensive hardware has not yet sank into the mentalities a lot of didactic work is needed.
I think if I can build a presence in the finest audio shop [having their pc setup and optimized with banners ] will help a lot.
The latter part sounds like a good idea to me if you ask me. I wonder how to make audiophiles in general accept new computer-based solutions as mainstream. If mainstream audiophiles were like 90s, I’m sure a lot of famous computer engineers will be hired to build highend music servers, found his own companies and sell off later to China by now. 😀
As I posted before in Plus/Pro users about Fidelizer update, I only fixed music player application selection bug which took me a while to figure out which method will handle the unexpected cases better. However, there’s also another change I didn’t inform anyone before. Well, to be honest, I don’t expect it to have clear improvement so I didn’t write it down.
When I was releasing version 7.4, I uninstalled FIdelizer Pro to do some tests about permission problems to support customers. But when I was about to release version 7.5, I reinstalled Fidelizer CAS which is a special version developed for Fidelizer Nimitra. So software will be compiled and packaged from Fidelizer optimized machine.
After a few customers reported the improvement in version 7.5, I was convinced that Fidelizer can also benefit from optimizations before performing code generation too. I did inform one customer saying Windows 10 update might improve itself too but he told me he also tested reverting back to version 7.4 and still found 7.5 sounding better.
That makes me wonder if audio player software will sound better if they have Fidelizer on his machine before compiling. That’d be interesting to find out. 🙂
Last week I was informed that Fidelizer will receive Positive Feedback Writers’ Choice Award 2016 by Larry Cox. Yesterday I received the image for public announcement so I’m posting it here today. You can read the definition of this award below.
The following is an opportunity for our editors and writers to recognize superior merit in the audio arts though their “Writers’ Choice Awards”. Our writers and reviewers have been given broad leeway to cite excellence in fine audio wherever they find it: products, people, recordings, events, groups, etc., so that our readers can be better informed.
It is our hope that you will find the PF Writers’ Choice Awards to be helpful to you in your audio journey.
All the best,
Positive Feedback
Larry Cox didn’t review Fidelizer Pro but he nominated Fidelizer for this award out of his own interests as an audiophile. He also ended the message with “thank you for making Fidelizer” and that was very encouraging.
Please don’t forget to read the Fidelizer Pro review by Tom Gibbs too. The award is big news but good review is also important too 🙂
It’s been a while after previous 7.4 release. Fidelizer is now very stable so I barely receive issues to be fixed for product itself. Most issues I received came from problems after Windows 10 update such as security problems or Windows 10 issues itself so only UX bug for music player application to be fixed for now.
As for free users, I received some feedback from free users saying it slows down system too much so they ended up not using it. Maybe they run other programs before Fidelizer so those programs will be treated as non-audio processes too.
Since system performance becoming an issue for free users, I decided to give one more core since free version doesn’t support hyper-threading optimizations and increase priority a bit more to non-audio processes.
It’s a tough call since some free users don’t mind system being slow for better sound quality. They may think of this as forced upgrade attempt. However, there’s a lot of free users having performance issues decided to stop using Fidelizer and they can also upgrade Fidelizer for better sound too.
I hope free users can understand that I’ve tried all I could to offer options that they can customize. I also set default option to Consumer user level so it won’t affect system performance but some users still choose the best not realizing the consequences.
Changelog for version 7.5
Free
-Added one more core to non-audio processes for less playback problems without hyper-threading optimizations
-Changed button’s name that opens Fidelizer Upgrade Program page to “Order Fidelizer”
-Increased priority to non-audio processes a bit more so system won’t be too slow for free users
Plus
-Changed button’s name that opens Fidelizer Upgrade Program page to “Order Fidelizer”
-Fixed software not asking for a new music player application when previous ones no longer exists
Pro
-Changed button’s name that opens Fidelizer Upgrade Program page to “Order Fidelizer”
-Fixed software not asking for a new music player application when previous ones no longer exists
Download: Fidelizer 7.5
Upgrade: Fidelizer Upgrade Program
Fidelizer Plus/Pro users should be received a mail about update and download link by now. If you somehow didn’t receive an update notification as I received some delivery failure message too, please contact me for an update with your customer data to verify.
Since we have over 1700 licenses now so we can’t deliver all licenses in a single day with 1,000 sending limit per day. We made some changes to delivery platform to slowly send software update to customers. I also noticed some customers have yet to provide fidelizer.key data after asking a few times so please contact me back.