Hi all, you may have noticed that I have been absent from this discussion so far, I have been very busy developing a new DAC with a radical new S/PDIF input stage which hopefully will make some of this tweaking a little less necessary. Anyway the first prototype of this new DAC is going out to get assembled tomorrow, so I found my self with a free evening, so I decided to finally try TT3.0.
I first tried it with the analog outs. It was pretty good, maybe a bit better than 2.0, but still not nearly as good as a GOOD external DAC. Then I tried the daemon killler, WOW, what a difference that made. That opened up the sound significantly, a wide sound stage, tons of detail but smooth and "organic". Bass was significantly extended. I was listening to an organ and choir piece I have listened to many times before and heard a counter melody in the lower pedal notes that I had never noticed before. Then I tried into some S/PDIF DACs, very strange, this actually didn't sound as good as the analog out! I was getting that infamous "fuzziness" people have been talking about. Very strange. I haven't had time to try out all the different priorities people have been talking about. One of the DACs is my own design from about 2 years ago, which sounded really good with tt2.0. >From trying different DACs it sounds like there is something going on here which is exciting differences in S/PDIF input receiver circuits. Different ones seem to respond differently to the same settings. It does seem like there might be a fair amount of tuning going on rather than an absolute "best for everything" setting. On the analog outs, especially with the daemon killer, tt3.0 seems to be a big step forward, making the results sound better than anything else I had heard from most external DACs. (remember this is with a good external supply and output caps removed) But with S/PDIF things seems to be a little more challenging to get really really good results. John S. -- JohnSwenson ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JohnSwenson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5974 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
