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Title: 9x--4 v. 9x--6b Post by: boleary on April 10, 2009, 01:07:33 pm Is it my imagination or is the sound quality of "6b" significantly better (more dynamic) than "4"? "4" sounds great but compared to "6b" it is flat sounding, like the Q1 slider, set to 4, sounds more like it is set to 14 when compared to "6b". Hope what I just said makes sense......
Being a relatively new XXhighender I don't know much about other versions of the player but I sure hope the sound of 9x--6b stays around for a long time. Then again, if I'm imagining this difference, guess I'll have to head down to the basement for a tune up! Title: Re: 9x--4 v. 9x--6b Post by: PeterSt on April 10, 2009, 02:39:56 pm No, you are most probably right. This is what I said myself about 0.9x-5b (where it happened) :
My own observations with the SQ of 0.9x-5b : I think Leif and Tony can very well be right; Last night I played at 0/0/0/0 but this time I used familiar material. Man, the dynamics seem to blow off the roof here ! But I'm not sure yet whether I find it too much ... The most occurring to me was that I listened to a stupid Dire Straits album, and that at first the shivers boiled down from my stomache to my knees (there they stop somehow :)) and furthermore I couldn't stop having tears in my eyes for the last 5 tracks or so of that album. With Dire Straits ?? I have the feeling never to touch that software again now ... But maybe I'm wrong and just had a good mood ? Title: 9x-7 Post by: SeVeReD on April 20, 2009, 06:50:52 am :NY02: :xx:
I'm really enjoying the SQ/balance of the new player 9x-7. Also liking/trying Qs 4 26 26 0 0. Invert checked most of the time, but sometimes a recording begs for the inverse (normal). To check for polarity, when listening, try to imagine whether you sense the music pushing toward you or pulling away (you may like that huge sound stage behind your speakers... there is no right or wrong on most of these recordings where the phases from recorded 'tracks' are mixed anyway... pick your poison). Title: Re: 9x--4 v. 9x--6b Post by: PeterSt on May 25, 2009, 12:05:55 pm With some music - containing a good and somewhat more fast beat - I imagine longitudinal circles in front of me, like -on the beat of the music- the sound comes to you from above, and floats back via the bottom towards the speakers (Snap would be an example of beats I mean). When the absolute phase changes, I think this circle floats the other way around : comes from the bottom, and floats back via the ceiling.
Enigma would be another example I think (imagining snare (drum)-like sampled music with a slower attack than usual when this circle thing occurs). Mind you, this can very well be in my mind, because it always comes to me like a "trance" thing. Usually not being on dope. :) |