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| What one change to your room, system, or setup made the biggest improvement? Pulling speakers way out into the room. The entire space between speakers and rear wall became the soundstage. | |
| Six DAC Comparison I recently got the Mojo X SE. I'm running USB through 2 DDCs and it sounds excellent. Still can't help but wonder how my cleaned up USB would fare against a cleaned up AES or spdif if I were to buy a DDC for those outputs (Berkeley Alpha or Audio ... | |
| What Could Cause Center Image To Present Lower than Expected Ok, I fixed it. I'm in a 15 X 10 ft room. Speakers were along the short, 10' wall. Today, I moved them to the 15' wall, which means I'm sitting very close to them - but that fixed it. Soundstage went from on the floor, far away and teeny to comp... | |
| What Could Cause Center Image To Present Lower than Expected Thanks. I've tried every suggestion here. I have a dedicated listening room, so there's no unwanted furniture. I have the room pretty well treated also. I moved the speakers around and tried several different setups. I raised the speakers 4" off t... | |
| To DDC or not to DDC. That is the question. @rikkipuu yep I believe you are correct | |
| What Could Cause Center Image To Present Lower than Expected Coming in years late on this, but I’m in a similar size room with the same issue - center image is stuck on the floor. Did you ever fix it? If so, how?! Thanks | |
| To DDC or not to DDC. That is the question. I use 2 DDCs in my system. Both my streamer and DAC have galvanically isolated USB, yet the DDCs are doing god’s work. Research some good DDCs and see what pops up that interests you. Then weigh against the DAC upgrade. Either route will probably ... | |
| Class A vs AB I'm weighing the Acora MRB-1 vs Joseph Pulsar2s. What did you end up with? | |
| USB cable recommendation Highly recommend Ricable Magnus. I’ve tried other, much more expensive cables, and it stands up or betters them. Only one I preferred was the Cardas high speed cable, but it costs way more. | |
| End Game(ish) Speakers - Help Deciding I just did a lot of demo’ing in the same price range. O Audio and Devore were my favorites. Sounds like Volti could be a good choice for you. | |
| New DAC or New Speakers? @zlone my room is a lot larger. Maybe reach out to O Audio and ask? That does seem like a tight space for them, but with the bottom-firing bass port maybe it could work. Otherwise, adding a sub might do the trick for you. I'm really happy with m... | |
| New DAC or New Speakers? @zlone QLNs were definitely nice, but I didn't think they beat my Harbeth SHL5+ with sub combo. Maybe on par with that combo. The Friggs have a similar tonality to the QLNs, but scaled much larger, much fuller sound, way more bass, better imagin... | |
| New DAC or New Speakers? Just FYI I ended up buying the Ø Audio Frigg speakers. With my VAC amp, the Friggs sounded better than the Devore O96s and the QLN Prestige 3s. | |
| New DAC or New Speakers? @abd1 Thanks. Yes going from Wharfedale Aura 2 to my Harbeth SHL 5+XD speakers was the biggest of all stereo leaps for sure. What 3K DAC are you using over the Aero? | |
| New DAC or New Speakers? @1bitsoul Thanks, the O96 sound great with my VAC. And I have a really good feeling about the QLN Prestige 3s and love the way they look. A lot of it is gonna come down to looks and size. These might be the top 2 contenders. |