B'ASS First Review HERE AT LAST!!!

[PeterSt]

Haha Jonathan,

Yes, your NOS1a arrived day before yesterday.
Yesterday we had the annual village feast so the soldering iron remained cold. Today we will be finishing another G3 and after that yours will be on stage.

Happy waiting !
Peter

[juanpmar]

Hi,
the first reaction I had when installing the G3 for the first time was strangeness. I did not quite understand the new sound. I didn´t know if that sounded better or worse than before. On the one hand it was evident that more details were perceived but on the other hand the sound in general appeared as unconcrete, I do not know how to say it, it was as if everything was out of place, the bass appeared also somewhat blurred. For all this, something pushed me to move the speakers looking for a new placement to see if I could recognize the previous sound. Something was telling me that the new sound had qualities that I was not finding. It has taken me at least three weeks, though with some days of pause in the middle, repositioning the speakers until I felt satisfied, and surprised at the same time, with the new sound. Actually I can not add anything other than what others have already said, this sound is simply different from what I've heard so far. It is clear that there are more details and that the placement in the sound scene of so much new detail gives us the sensation, as already has been said, that the cds heard before now seem different. In short, a reproduction of the sound to be accustomed but that is again spectacular. Much more detail but without aggressiveness, a bass that is as voluminous as before but less dry, perhaps more real. I don´t know if others, like me, will be pushed to look for a new speakers placement but, in any case, once I found the correct setting what I can say is that this is the best dac I've ever had, including the previous versions of NOS1. Thank you Peter!

Juan

[PeterSt]

Phew Juan ! you sure managed to make that a small thriller.

I think you can count me in for speaker (re)placement. Sort of.
What I found was that something was inaccurate while I could not find the reason why. So eventually I started thinking that possibly the speakers were not aligned to the cm and thus I changed things with measure in my hand.
From here I noticed a difference and also small improvement but after a month or so I still felt dissatisfied. Then I grabbed the IR measure meter I just have and did it really to my best capabilities, on the mm accurate.
And now I am happy again (I did this last step maybe 3 months ago).

So Juan, it is that you mention this and that it gives me a reason for my own somehow degraded situation, at first. Somewhere this started to happen to me, but with me weekly applying changes, it went unnoticed when exactly - and thus by what.

Thank you for sharing !
(and holding on )
Peter

[juanpmar]

Hi Peter, thank you for your offer of help in positioning the speakers. Any advice is welcome. If I am totally honest, I can not assure that I already have found the perfect position for the speakers. Maybe, it could still be better ...

To place the speakers I use a Bosch Laser Measure and placed them to the millimeter. I also placed on a side wall a diffuser panel that I wasn´t used before in this room, I placed it just at the first reflection point at the height of the tweeter. My current room is complicated because it is quite small but still previously it had been easier for me to get a satisfactory sound. Anyway, as I said, so far it has been worth the effort. The good thing about G3 is that you not only perceive its virtues, but also that you can intuit that it has more qualities hidden. It is a challenge, but rewarding.

Juan

[juanpmar]

I forgot one more thing. In some cases it seems like if I'd need to rise up the volume one or two steps to get the same presence as before. Could it be also one of the reasons that pushed me to move the speakers.

Juan