One and a half Posted April 22, 2021 Share Posted April 22, 2021 Have you considered the source material is clouded by noise, muffling the sound.... headphones just amplify the muffles. AS Profile Equipment List Say NO to MQA Link to comment
One and a half Posted April 22, 2021 Share Posted April 22, 2021 4 hours ago, Citrus said: Curious as i dont get that with the Shure headphones? Also have an Audiolab mdac mini which was clear as a bell but its died : ( Interested that If it was noise where do you think that might arise from? i have a mains conditioner and loads of fancy cable. No linear power supply yet. surely it wouldnt make the huge difference ive found? You don't mention the source which is just as important as the end gear is. USB is prone to transmitting noise that sounds over bright mistaken for clarity. Different cables attenuate these effects. Noise is responsible for lack of detail and collapsed soundstage, removing it or even reducing is not a simple exercise. opus101 1 AS Profile Equipment List Say NO to MQA Link to comment
One and a half Posted April 22, 2021 Share Posted April 22, 2021 5 hours ago, Citrus said: Hi O&H Good point. I use USB. I did spent a load of money on an Adioquest cable, an A to B. It improved clarity with les ‘fuzz’ : ) What are your views on this kind of thing? One problem is my 12v pc which has an adapter. Its proven very difficult to get a Linear P S as its high wattage and so high amps it needs 120w with at least 10amps. Interestingly I tried my other PC which I gave the same setup. That was 240v straight in with no adapter. I actually found this had a tiny bit of audible distortion. The PC’s are both quite new with m2 drives for OS and SSD storage drives and loads of ram and quick Cpu’s.... C In a nutshell, various SMPS and PWM controllers on the motherboard couple their switching noise to the ground plane. That same noise rides on any external connection like USB to the victim DAC. The same switching noise ends up on the AC and travels along to other audio components, much like a virus, but is limited to conduction, through wiring only. Have a search on common and differential mode noise, and capacitovely coupled noise on the Web. AS Profile Equipment List Say NO to MQA Link to comment
One and a half Posted April 23, 2021 Share Posted April 23, 2021 11 hours ago, Citrus said: Sorry the album is called ‘Meditations’! A bit cringy; Don’t laugh : ) In fact once youve found it erase the tital from your mind instantly! C Sorry, I don't have a Tidal subscription to listen for the distortion. AS Profile Equipment List Say NO to MQA Link to comment
One and a half Posted April 25, 2021 Share Posted April 25, 2021 37 minutes ago, fas42 said: It's a strange journey, because there is poor understanding of what the problems are, when the SQ is subjectively not right. An extreme reluctance to 'blame' one's own rig, because so much money and energy has been expended on setting it up - and ego is involved, 😉. Much easier to blame the recording, the room, one's mood, etc, etc ... So, a typical workaround is, yes, to "dull it down" - the treble not working right is the great offender; and a thousand excuses are trotted out to give oneself permission to wind this part of the spectrum back ... equipment that one way or another does the latter is given a thumbs up; and people who just want to hear the whole shebang go, Huhh??!, when they hear one of the anointed components. What this means is that a hifi system normally just sounds like, a hifi system - and not something that can convince one of being "real" music playing happening. en anglais, s'il vous plait AS Profile Equipment List Say NO to MQA Link to comment
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