Are you using a stock DAC card in your 2.2X? BTW- the real power of the 2.2X comes from using it for biamping with dual corner loaded subs.
P Floding;170331 Wrote: > 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 current 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). -- jhm731 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jhm731's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7685 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31662 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
