Soundqualitiy of XX with nos 1543

[Leo]

A short feedback on version i. I listened through usb , a nos 1543 , trafobased volume control (ala Django),  Hypex 400 (modified), open baffle with Hawthorne Silver Iris 15 inch coaxial with added bd15 for lows. I tried al kinds of music, quite a lot of that I had become bored of, and all were a new experience with XX. All sounded natural and normal, no distraction from the music. I find that the engine 2 with doubling gives better or darker background , more real. With some music I even sense the presence of the evil manager smoking his cigar backstage. Engine 1#  was very very good as well, but not so much of this weird deep involvement in the music.

This is of course a very individual, unscientific and non-controllable review, but very very real to me.

BUT: it is a major distraction that this magic gets interrupted by de DEMO(N) time limit.
 

[PeterSt]

Hmm ... so Leo, you didn't perform any ABXing, double blind tests and all that is needed at Hydrogen to prove that software players just cannot make a difference ?

Sorry, but in that case we cannot trust your findings.

hahahahaha

About the darker background :
When you are not sure which is better and when you don't have the presence of standing waves a rather absolute mesasurement is putting your arms (or whatever bodypart) on a table, bar or other "catching" surface, and feel that surface vibrating.
This would be a typicle means of judgement : the more vibes you feel, the better the playback must be. If you play some louder, you can just feel it on your body. Also, this is a "within one second" judgement thing.

Then, try to imagine that when the standing waves get out of the way, the more fuzzy (lower freq) sound gets out of the way with the same means. After this stage, where standing waves do not disturb anymore, there comes the (potential) stage of the waves still being able to get more tight. That's to be "measured" as described ...

Thanks,
Peter


PS: I try to keep all the judgements in their own threads, so that's why I moved your topic to this new one.