darrenyeats wrote: > 1. I tried a comparison at high digi volume too. The difference in > character described above remained constant! This indicates that it is > not the digi volume changing the character of the signal but quite the > opposite - the Krell's pre is changing the character of the signal.
Did you exactly match the volume each way? Sometimes the ear's non-linear sensitivity to volume does all the changing when the sound out of the gear is the same. Some speakers are also very non-linear. For years, I used Large Advents, which were famous for being great price/performance deals in the 70s. But they had two characterists that were not talked about nearly as much as their great performance: 1) they were amazingly inefficient, and needed serious power to drive 2) they sounded great when loud, but totally unimpressive at low volume (say background music levels). -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
