Dauntless
22-10-2017, 12:10
I was listening last night and it struck me that I have had my sp/dif purifier in my system for over a year and have made several changes to my system in that time. My system that I was listening to last night comprised of a Cambridge CXC transport ( CD ) no fancy streaming here:), Schiit Gungnir multibit dac, sp/dif purifier, Schiit Freya balanced pre with tung sol valves ( the ones that Schiit supply well they're a little Shittey ) a SDS 470C class d amp and Cambridge Aeromax 6 speakers. Not what you might find in a typical AOS system but then I'm isolated up here and plough my own furrow:) The transport, Pre and speakers are all new and I'd also put in some new digital coax cable, namely Belden 1694A.
I was listening to Hugh Laurie's 'Didn't it rain' CD which I hadn't listened to in quite a while and I thought it sounded a little bass heavy so I thought I would take out the sp/dif purifier to see if there was a difference. To my surprise
the bass was better integrated but the dynamics of the CD maybe a little less. I decided to listen to Stanley Clarke's 'Find Out' CD ( BGO Records BGOCD1022 ). The results were again similar, less blow on the bass but less dynamics also. Then I popped 'David Johansen and the Harry Smiths' blues into the CXC's tray and found similar results,slight loss of dynamics but a nice clarity to the songs so well sung by David Johansen. I will leave things as they are for a while and see how it goes. I don't know why there is a difference with the sound but I was using an Emotiva ERC3 CDP as transport which has a mech that will play stuff other than CD's but the Cambridge will only play CD's. The Emotiva sounded better through the Schiit dac than as a full stand alone CDP and also benefited with the sp/dif purifier in the system.The Cambridge transport has a specialized cd mech. Maybe CD's are better played on a specialized cd transport rather than DVD drive or computer rom. Any views out there?
I was listening to Hugh Laurie's 'Didn't it rain' CD which I hadn't listened to in quite a while and I thought it sounded a little bass heavy so I thought I would take out the sp/dif purifier to see if there was a difference. To my surprise
the bass was better integrated but the dynamics of the CD maybe a little less. I decided to listen to Stanley Clarke's 'Find Out' CD ( BGO Records BGOCD1022 ). The results were again similar, less blow on the bass but less dynamics also. Then I popped 'David Johansen and the Harry Smiths' blues into the CXC's tray and found similar results,slight loss of dynamics but a nice clarity to the songs so well sung by David Johansen. I will leave things as they are for a while and see how it goes. I don't know why there is a difference with the sound but I was using an Emotiva ERC3 CDP as transport which has a mech that will play stuff other than CD's but the Cambridge will only play CD's. The Emotiva sounded better through the Schiit dac than as a full stand alone CDP and also benefited with the sp/dif purifier in the system.The Cambridge transport has a specialized cd mech. Maybe CD's are better played on a specialized cd transport rather than DVD drive or computer rom. Any views out there?