While your stuff is not going to threaten Steve Jobs's bank balance, it should still sound good - you don't want to be spending good cash and not being happy; that's what it's all about. It strikes me that you have good enough components for good sound, so you have a problem. This could be many things:
- Problems with a component or some freaky system synergy thing. Challenge your friends to come round with their CD players, amplifiers or whatever, and see if you can get good sound over a glass or two of wine. - Problems with cables. Try using the standard SB3 cable; get some totally cheap speaker cable from Maplin (e.g. 42-strand at 50p/meter) and see how that works. Don't spend real money yet. - Setup issues. Move the speakers if you can. Do you have a lot of glass, hard furniture/floors, or little in the way of soft furniture in your room? Wall hangings, rugs, curtains and squidgy sofas can make more difference than components sometimes. With the above, you should be able to sort out such a problem. Once you have identified where it is, then you can spend money on a solution. My favourite things that are sensible money are my non-oversampling DAC (as mentioned earlier) - bought direct from Hong Kong from the maker via his ebay shop for £184 all in; there are other similar DACs available - and just arrived today are some 'Anti-cables' speaker cables, which out of the box sound better than my old Nordosts, which were several times the price; these were under £100. If your problem is in either of these areas, these could be worth trying. Adam -- adamslim SB3 into Derek Shek d2, Shanling CDT-100, Rotel RT-990BX, Esoteric Audio Research 859, Living Voice Auditorium IIs, Nordost cables http://www.last.fm/user/AdamSlim/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ adamslim's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7355 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31477 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
