liffy99;203943 Wrote: > > Anyway, from the first few seconds it was clear that something had > changed - I was hearing new things from my FLAC recordings. There did > not seem to be much change, if any, to frequency extension, dynamics or > sound level. The best way I can describe it is that another "veil" has > been lifted, lowering an already low noise floor to vanishingly low > levels. I'm assuming that this has allowed more ambient musical > information to come through unimpeded. Images seem a little more three > dimensional, stage width now easily exceeds the outside edge of the > loudspeakers, pianos seem to have taken on a new breadth. >
If the improvement is in the noise floor, you can hear it much better without music playing. Either mute the SB or play a completely silent track (there are many ways to make one if you can't find one to download somewhere) and just listen to your speakers with your ear close to the tweater, and with the amp/SB volumes maxed or high. I've been able to hear a (very slight) difference between different RCA interconnects that way, but replacing the SB supply with a linear had no effect at all. Given that those are absolutely ideal conditions for hearing a difference, I concluded that the linear supply made no change in the noise floor of my system. I'd be curious to know if the same is true for you (and if you try it, unplug the wallwart from the wall while testing the linear to be sure there's no RFI contributing). -- opaqueice ------------------------------------------------------------------------ opaqueice's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4234 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35518 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
