darrenyeats;210267 Wrote: > Phil, > I smiled when I read your message, especially the vinyl comment. > > No offence taken. It is difficult to tell what is better sometimes. I > think it can depend on the rest of your system. > > In a nutshell, the SB3 sounds a tad more "shouty" and the Monarchy > sounds a bit more dynamic. By dynamic I don't mean louder, in fact if > anything it sounds subjectively quieter. The details are all there but > presented at tad more subtly. Another way of expressing it is that the > Monarchy sounds a bit darker, more laid back, but with all the detail. > For me, that is more relaxing to listen to and sounds a bit more real. > > It could be that what I'm hearing is different frequency response, > which reacts with the rest of my rig in a certain way. But I don't > think so, I perceive that this quietness thing is about dynamics not > tone. > > BTW, as you would expect, either transport measures the same loudness > on a sound meter with a test tone. > > The differences are small but I am an obsessive like many others on > this forum - so small things are a big deal. > Darren
Darren - glad you appreciated the gentle humour! So, this "shouty" business...sounds like jitter in/affecting the DAC to me. I'm personally of the opinion that the transport can't actually change things like dynamics, distortion, frequency response, l/r image resolution - only the DAC can do that since prior to the DAC it's just accurate (and accurately timed) bits and they don't have those concepts. However, it is possible that different transports can cause the same DAC to behave differently because of noise on the mains and spdif which impair the DAC's analogue capabilities...and of course our old friend "jitter". Can you try a TOSLINK connection? I'd be interested if that changed things for you. Regards Phil -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... ...SB3+TACT+Altmann+MF DACXV3/Linn tri-amped Aktiv 5.1 system and some very expensive cables ;o) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20855 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
