With all kidding aside, what has changed to make it appear the music is flat and lifeless? What I am basically asking is what did you change and now the music is flat? Is this a completely new setup? Did you just change one piece? Did you go directly from CD to Transporter? What speaker cables and interconnects are you using? I do not know that much about the Solo, how is the Transporter feeding it (does it have both analog and digital inputs)? Basically we need to know everything to even start making common sense suggestions. What is the source for the Transporter i.e. MP3, FLAC, Internet Radio? All these are going to sound different due to the differing levels of source fidelity.
So start at the beginning and tell us what you were listening to before the Transporter. Tell us everything you changed when you started listening to the Transporter. List everything that is in the current system right down to all cabling. Tell us which output you use on the Transporter i.e. analog (RCA or XLR) or digital (Toslink, BNC, or Coaxal). Tell us what type files the Transporter is transcoding (playing as a source MP3, FLAC, WMA, etc). The others are correct that the Transporter is a great starting point and one of the better pieces of equipment in most systems. It will most certainly show out right flaws in ones overall system, but I do not think that is the case here. It will more likely shed some light on weakness in a specific piece of equipment, cable, or interconnect. As an example, an interconnect that helped balance the bright sound of a CDP by being dry would now most likely make the Transporter seem lifeless. Sound is subjective. And the amount of subjectiveness is directly proportional to what one thinks they are looking for from reproduced music. It is hardest of the audiophile that is trying to reproduce music in its purest form without coloration because that may go directly against what his ears prefer as good music. My friend feels that my system is a little light on the top because he prefers music that is over equalized and bright in your face on top (plus his speakers have both ribbin and dome tweeters as well as a rear firing dome). I have a very fast and bright pair of interconnects that I use to by-pass my VTL TL-6.5 Signature Pre-amp when he comes over so that he gets the input from my Signal Processors Pre-amp into the MX-R Ayre mains. It is the sound he prefers were as it is no longer musical to me. I am not an all tube guy. I am in the middle preferring a tube pre-amp mated to a SS amp. -- iPhone ------------------------------------------------------------------------ iPhone's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13622 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39764 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
