End of my tether

Hi,apologies,lazy left thumb flagged your post,wasn’t meant/intentional,:face_with_hand_over_mouth:

Agree with above, you effectively have two pre amps going into your amp plus the ipeng volume. Set ipeng to fixed volume and lower the DSC volume gives you more control and makes your amp work a bit more. Removing the Naim pre and using a power amp, chord in my case, was a revelation for me.

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Indeed I found the cyan colour on the level control on my Hugo1 … I think it’s the same on Hugo2 … seemed to ‘sound’ most comfortable and breath the best into my 252 and 552.

All stuff I’ve yet to look into. I’m currently ripping one of the Decca 50 CD classical boxes and wrestling with a fascinating metadata issue with a Holland Dozier Holland box set whereby both MyInnuos and iPeng show 13 albums when I ripped 14 and yet the songs for the 14th are clearly there in iPeng. Once that little lot is sorted then a pause to start reading the iPeng and Chord documentation seems in order.

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That won’t take long :blush:

No worries – happens to the best of us!

I hadn’t take into account the amount of incompetent meta data served up for my Decca boxed set.

What the heck.

17 like this. Only occurred since I scanned the Decca boxed set and then did an incremental back up before addressing the meta data issues the box set threw up.

Any clues? A rescan does nothing and a rescan with the backup drive plugged back in does nothing. Doesn’t see, to be a safe way to disconnect the backup drive so I’m wondering if just unplugging the USB cable crashed something?

Going through iPeng all the music is there but the covers have gone. Appears to be no way to add covers back in or delete the album to re rip.

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Hi Mike, have you checked the ‘music library’ section of the Innuos browser to see if the album covers are missing?

If so, select the album that’s missing the cover and then press ‘change cover’.

Hope that helps!

Yes, missing from both. Did a server restart and that didn’t sort it. However, “Reset Music Library Database” in Advanced Settings has sorted it notwithstanding that I’d like to know what happened and why.

Now trying to figure out why two albums in a boxed set have merged as one.

I have found that cds with the same title will merge when ripped on the Zenith, I normally get round this by ripping box sets etc. on my computer with dBpoweramp.

This way I can also merge the acts of an opera spread over more than one cd into a single file.

Agreed. Even using dbpoweramp with the better paid for metadata database sources I ended up changing lots of tags on classical and opera rips to make it easier to search. The metadata is inconsistent otherwise.

Innuos has a feature for numbering CDs as part of a set so they are numbered 1, 2, 3…of X. You need to make sure it does this consistently as sometimes it finds the metadata for a CD that was not part of the box set. I always review each rip before it is saved so that I can get some consistency even with covers (same for all) and with searchable elements of metadata.

Phil

@Morton @Filipe thanks for your comments. I’ve found it inconsistent so far. On a 4 CD box it merged 2 CDs into one and gave the 4th CD a different cover to the first two.

On the 50 CD Decca classical box it has given most CDs the cover of the 2nd album whilst recognising them as part of the 50. The others it has recognised as discrete albums with the correct cover but not part of the 50. Most have no genre attached.

On my 14 CD H-D-H box it gave every CD the correct cover; recognised 12 of 14 as being part of the collection and merged 1 and 4 for no obvious reason.

All fixable and likely fixable without DBpoweramp but I ended up taking a ripping rest day today and will address it all tomorrow.

Cracked my Holland Dozier Holland issue without resorting to DBpoweramp. An interesting challenge.

Mike, do you mean “without resorting to DBpoweramp” ?

I do. The joy of eyes that don’t scan properly. I shall go fix it now. Thanks @Don.

Is it perfect? No it is not. Bass remains inconsistent as do mids. Great on some stuff. Barely there at all on others. However, there is a Christmas tree 2m from the left speaker; a cheap wireless bridge introducing noise as it’s too close to the Innuos; zero cable dressing thus far and… for the first time in more than a year my wife and I have sat down and worked our way through 3 hours of music!

Sure, there is much to address and muse upon - and many further questions to ask of you lovely people - but as a source Zenith/Hugo TT2 is stunning and I am once again engaged with music in a way I’d nearly forgotten.

Ripped 460 albums so far so only a quarter of the way there but the fact I’m talking it head on speaks for itself.

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I warn you now, don’t listen to a Phoenix!

The priority is more a different speakers, or amp. But Mike will go more on different speakers, I think to have understood. Not an urgency however.