occam;210920 Wrote: > Darren, > > I'd be curious as to your differing subjective evaluation (if any) with > various components plugged into the conditioner vs. that when plugged > directly into the wall on the same circuit. > > Regards, > Paul
Well I was listening to Rumours by Fleetwood Mac, Songbird to be precise and it all sounded a bit smoothed off. This was of course with all components on the filter as usual. So I played a bit. First test was amp without filter, transport/DAC on filter. This sounded more forward, which spotlighted the vocals more. I could still hear the piano of course but it felt a little lost somehow - however at least the vocal had sparkle to it. All off filter, same comments, perhaps a little less refinement but I couldn't be sure in this quick test. Bringing it all back to filter, it wasn't a dull as I remembered it but the vocals had less sparkle. The piano was back in the soundstage and the song sounded more of a piece and musical. I would say with filter it is more natural (probably better imaging) but without filter it did make the vocals more pristine, but at the expense of a colder quality. In summary, for this limited experience I preferred the filter. However, I'd like to experiment with buying another filter and popping the amp on that. I could imagine the Krell creating noise and I wonder if separating the power filtering like that might be good for the lower power equipment. Darren -- darrenyeats ------------------------------------------------------------------------ darrenyeats's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10799 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20855 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
