Jack, Your SB or interconnects must be faulty. The SB is NOT "sibilant" and has a quite smooth mid-top response via its analogue outputs - this is easily measured, hearable and provable. Its digital output is flat eq-wise (as the laws of physics dictate).
There is no PC audio card (even M-audio - and yes, I've got one) that sounds as good as the SB via a decent (take your pick) DAC. You have a Bel Canto - I consider that quite a nice smooth DAC. You are using FLAC or WAV files I assume? Can you give any examples of CD's/tracks that sound bad to you on your setup? Every soundcard/chain that resamples 44.1-48 sounds cloudy and wooly to me. Also, your left/right interconnect switch that allegedly improved the sound seems VERY strange - I've never seen that happen (ignoring the "corroded/dirty interconnects theory" - easily testable by reversing the switch - if the connections are now clean there should no longer be any difference. The only way that would happen would be if one of your speakers is internally wired OOP (I've seen that) and also something else in the chain so that the whole system is only in-phase with a given combo of left/right connections...(my old Linn active system was a bit like that unless you were VERY careful with the wiring..) -- Phil Leigh ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24613 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
