SoftwireEngineer wrote: > I think, you guys lost the OP. If at all OP is still reading, my > suspects are 1) amp 2) SB Touch. Just swap out with a more high-powered > amp and see if the speakers "open up". Currently, I know my magnepans on > the wall are not being driven well by Panasonic receiver. The sound is > usually flat in this case. The DAC would be just nuances, noise/haze > etc.
An interesting thing happened to me yesterday. I've purchased Les Nubians "Princesses Nubiennes" CD and ripped it to AIFF and then sat down to listen in amazement. Why in amazement? Because I've previously had that CD ripped in 320 kbps mp3 format and was listening to it for years, so I am intimately familiar with the material and with the sound quality (the origin of those mp3s is a bit, erm, shady). But now, when listening to the same material on lossless AIFF, the differences in the sound quality were, to say the least, stunning. Suddenly, the soundstage opened, the bass extended deep down, the highs became 'civilized' and silky, and on and on, I could rant the whole day about the improvements. So my question is: are the perceived differences to be attributed to the differences in formats (lossy vs. lossless), or to the differences in ripping the contents of the CD? (fyi, I've used the regular iTunes ripping procedure). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ heisenberg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=59622 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98591 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
