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I have a auralic g1 digital front end fed by qobuz/roon & I also have two turntables.., LP12 & thorens td124mkii
How do you change source and control volume?
I have a auralic g1 digital front end fed by qobuz/roon & I also have two turntables.., LP12 & thorens td124mkii
Is there a danger in becoming too involved in all the adjustments possible?
Anybody interested in room correction - no forget that, anybody interested in obtaining the highest possible fidelity should read Mitchco’s articles on Audiophile Style about Acourate and AudioLens.
I'd say it's preferable to get involved in such adjustments that actually do something, rather than the normal audiophile pursuit of tweaking stuff that's more likely to make imaginary differences
I spent quite a number of hours fiddling with the filter and Dirac setup of my MiniDSP SHD when I got it, and tuning the results over a few months. Now it's sounding and measuring how I like it, I don't touch it at all.
The auralic g1 has its own digital volume control (via roon).How do you change source and control volume?
Is there a danger in becoming too involved in all the adjustments possible?
I have to admit, despite being an ecstatic advocate of active cardioid speakers, I'm Old Skool and understand little of how they work.
My understanding is that the D&D8c and the Kii3 have two main selling points: They are active (with all the benefits that brings, which we have known about for decades), and they display cardioid dispersion, i.e. the sound (including low frequencies) is directed towards the listener, thereby avoiding "exciting" the room (and resulting in lovely clarity and lack of smear, which is obvious on listening)?
I then start to get lost: IIUIC, the Kiis use active drivers on the sides of the speakers to "cancel" low frequencies heading away from the listener? The D&D8c has slits in the side of each speaker - does this achieve the same thing, but passively? How?
Both appear to couple low frequencies to the front wall via active rear facing drivers? Is that right? When I set my Kiis up, I simply inputted the relationship of the each individual speaker to the front and side walls (in cm). Why is REW needed for the D&D? Is it achieving something different, or something similar but in a more sophisticated fashion? What am I losing, if anything, by not having it? I am also one of us who sets it up & then leaves it; not a tweaker at all. And also hugely delighted with my setup but genuinely confused about all this room measurement stuff. I guess what I'm saying is that if the speakers don't excite the room (or at least far less than conventional designs), then why the need to measure it?