I have the Edirol MA15Ds purchased specially for the SB2. My findings regarding them are as follows;
Pros: Nice Appearance, Small, Heavy. Cons: No auto power on/off, Annoying switch-off click, No off position for the built-in bass circuitry. Soundwise I'm still undecided after two months listening to them. I always get the feeling the mids are too recessed/low. Concerning the Bass; when the switch is set to positions 2 or 3 there's definately too much bass kicked out, and as there is no off position the bass psycho-acoustic malarkey circuitry is always in use. I would love to find out how they'd sound without this in-circuit. BTW I'm using them with a collection of 20% mp3, 10% ogg and 70% FLAC music files (8300 tracks in total). I also did a comparison between using the in-built DAC and the one inside the SB2 and I found the in-built DAC to give the sound more clarity (this was also borne out by one other person who listened blindly). And yet I still get the feeling somethings not right with the overall sound, and the mids appear to be reason. Also contrary to what somebody's previously said, there is only one speaker that has the amplifier/DAC inside, the other is just a passive one. Recently I've been browsing around for something that could be better and somebody on these forums mentioned the Taskam VL-X5s. Though they are more expensive, and they have no DAC, I'm starting to wonder whether these would have been a better choice. Who knows, in the pursuit of the best sound, maybe the Edirol's will end up on eBay... -- CavesOfTQLT _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
