cfraser;679126 Wrote: > Thanks for comments. I will try to look into what's going on over the > next few days as events allow. I was too captivated by the music last > night to try to analyze what the problem might have been. > > Oh yeah, I just remembered that there *was* another change from how I > normally have TT3.0 configured: I changed the buffer size to 3200 per > SBGK's setup in his own system. I have been running with 4000 since > TT2.0, and I don't recall why I was using that value as I never got any > of the noise you might associate with too small a buffer. > > I could go on and on about the SQ last night. One other aspect that was > very noticeable was an increased soundstage width (when > appropriate...vocals were still very localized and didn't sound like > coming from a 1m wide mouth), and also it was moved forward. One of the > things that the BDA-1 DAC does, here, is it tends to flatten the > soundstage a bit, speaking depth-wise, noticeable with Maggies anyway > and nicely restored by the priority mods. I was sometimes surrounded by > music more akin to from my turntable, except maybe even better and > certainly much more convenient.
Yes, a bit deeper soundstage is also what I get with SBGK's values. Guido F. -- guidof MUSIC ROOM: Marantz TT 15S1 Turntable, Virtuoso Wood Cartridge->Conrad Johnson Motif preamp Oppo BDP-83 Universal Player->Cambridge Azur 840C DAC Vortexbox Appliance->WiFi Bridge->Squeezebox Touch->Toslink->Cambridge Azur 840C DAC->Adcom GFP-750 preamp->Music Reference RM-200 Mk II amp -> Martin Logan SL3s DSpeaker Antimode 8033->REL T1 Sub BEDROOM: Squeezebox Touch (analog out)->Little Dot Mk III amp->AKG K701 headphones SECOND BEDROOM: Squeezebox Touch->Grado SR125 headphones ------------------------------------------------------------------------ guidof's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=40448 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=91322 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles