@ SBGK: Boy, am I glad I copied your 12-21-2011 values from p.62 (now re-baptized, but not by me, Guido F values) before you consigned them to the dustbin!
I did some more back-to-back listening between those values and the 12-27 version and in my system and to my ears there is no question that the former are the absolute winners. I listen mostly to jazz and classical, so for me the main criterion of SQ is how close the sound approximates that of live musicians in a real space. Your 12-21 numbers give me sound that comes closer to the real thing than anything I've heard on my system so far. Dave Brubeck's -Pennies From Heaven- recorded live in Amsterdam had all the PRAT one can ask for. It sounded crisp and airy as well as properly rouded. Ofra Harnoy's cello in her RCA version of Vivaldi cello sonatas had a most ravishing tone, sounding neither close to a double bass or to a viola, as sometimes recorded cellos tend to sound. Peter Hurford's traversal of Bach's organ works was mesmerizing, neither lacking low pedal bass nor the highests reeds. In short, both were timbres accurate and the low-middle-high frequencies balanced. In my system, with speakers that tend to be on the lean side, this had been difficult to achieve -- until now. A very special thanks both to Klaus and to you! 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
