I've done a system shakeup, and can report on some findings: 1. The TacT RCS is getting a rest. Room correction is nice, and can get you closer to a feeling of being there. However I feel my RCS 2.2x robs the music of dynamics (PRAT, if you wish).
2. The SB3's analogue outputs now goes straight into the power amp. Much more PRAT than the TacT. (However, I run the SB3 on battery -so it is not stock.) 3. My more expensive Krell FPB-200 has been retired in favour of my much older Krell KSA-50S. I discovered that the KSA-50S sounds a lot better than the FPB-200 with my currect speakers! 4. My temporary arrangement for SB3 battery supply has been replaced with a nicer DIY "control box" which charges one unused battery while the other is being used. The batteries hang off an umbilical, and the control box has a local 1 Farad supercap before the regulator (which has its own caps). The battery are regulated down from 6.4 volts to 5.18 volts. Swithover is still manual (for now), but the simple throw of a switch swaps charging and listening batteries. (And the charging circuit is totally disconnected from the listening circuit, including neutral.) At the moment the sound is scarily good. Unnaturally so... ;-) Compliments to Slimdevices for making the humble SB3 so competent (if the SMPS is junked). Ideas for the future: Get Transporter and use directly into the power amp. Route A/V and other secondary stuff via the TacT (for A/D) and then via Toslink to the Transporter. Use SB3 into TacT to play around with room correction (which in turn uses Transporter for D/A). -- P Floding ------------------------------------------------------------------------ P Floding's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2932 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31662 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
