The Vinyl Adventure
10-01-2010, 23:35
It occured to me this eve that I might isolate the source of the ott treble by using a different dac
so I unplugged the copper dac and plugged in the 7520 (my caiman is in a box somewhere and I can't find it)
7520 connected with mark grant dsp 1.0, mike homars digital cable(from digi out of majik) and mark grant g1000hd
majik conected also via g1000hd
http://i728.photobucket.com/albums/ww282/hamish_gill/a5b011f2.jpg
the majik's dac, as I have said before, sounds within this system, a bit top and bottom heavy, the mids ate a bit dulled and as such make vocals sound lifeless and to far away in the soundstage
like the copper dac the 7520 has the effect of bringing life back into the mids, there is a lot more of a overall balance to the sound it even sounds a touch warmer than the majik!
It does also seem to have the effect of reducing the ott treble. So although not quite as dynamic as the copper dac, and it would be unfair to comment on the copper dac in this comparison whilst it isn't optimised to work within my system it does point the finger at the high level coming out of the copper dac as being the cause of that treble problem. Good news!
So as for the 7520 being better within this system, well I'm looking forward to finding the caiman now! The majik's dac was def better in the naim system, not by a lot but def by a bit... The 7520 is a clear winner in this system (to both mine and hannah's ears!)
so I unplugged the copper dac and plugged in the 7520 (my caiman is in a box somewhere and I can't find it)
7520 connected with mark grant dsp 1.0, mike homars digital cable(from digi out of majik) and mark grant g1000hd
majik conected also via g1000hd
http://i728.photobucket.com/albums/ww282/hamish_gill/a5b011f2.jpg
the majik's dac, as I have said before, sounds within this system, a bit top and bottom heavy, the mids ate a bit dulled and as such make vocals sound lifeless and to far away in the soundstage
like the copper dac the 7520 has the effect of bringing life back into the mids, there is a lot more of a overall balance to the sound it even sounds a touch warmer than the majik!
It does also seem to have the effect of reducing the ott treble. So although not quite as dynamic as the copper dac, and it would be unfair to comment on the copper dac in this comparison whilst it isn't optimised to work within my system it does point the finger at the high level coming out of the copper dac as being the cause of that treble problem. Good news!
So as for the 7520 being better within this system, well I'm looking forward to finding the caiman now! The majik's dac was def better in the naim system, not by a lot but def by a bit... The 7520 is a clear winner in this system (to both mine and hannah's ears!)