Hi John You wrote: "Well the results were very promising, significantly better than anything else I had ever done, BUT my ears hurt after listening to it for more than a few seconds. This usually means there are some very high frequency signals getting through. At first I thought it might be the SB3 since the spectrum analyzer showed strong peaks in the very upper trebble, but Sean said they don't do any EQ, that effect in the analyzer was just for looks. I finally tracked it down to my unshielded interconnects picking up EMI from the SB3. It wasn't quite as bad when playing the analog outs since the cable exited straight out the back. With the I2S output I had to have the SB3 very close to the DAC, the entry for the cable was right next to the output RCAs so the ICs picked up a lot more. Some very good shielded ICs fixed the problem. Its now back to sounding awesome and I can stay in the same room with it!"
I had similar problems with sibilence but sorted it out by changing my ic's over left to right. Ive been reading up about it on a valve amp forum... 'phase inversion', not sure why but every things more musical too....pretty strange! :) (totally subjective experience, my wife still thinks its too bright). here in Shropshire UK, the quality of musical reproduction increases late at night (11pm onwards when electricity usage diminishes) so a better power supply is next! Jack. -- Lyonesse ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Lyonesse's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5496 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24800 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
