I guess the answer was always going to be fairly obvious. I was suprised at how different each recording sounds with Valhalla, having been used to QFil, and that threw me a little. I can now honestly say, after listening a while, that Valhalla is miles better.
One strange thing I did notice, and it may have been my imagination, but the overall system sound was better with the QFil still plugged in (my CD has two outputs) in an A+B test. If you take out the spare cable altogether, the remaining I/C loses a little sparkle - or is that just my imagination ...running away with me...? Is this teaching me something about system synergy, and that even unused channels and i/c's have an overall impact on the sound you hear?
One strange thing I did notice, and it may have been my imagination, but the overall system sound was better with the QFil still plugged in (my CD has two outputs) in an A+B test. If you take out the spare cable altogether, the remaining I/C loses a little sparkle - or is that just my imagination ...running away with me...? Is this teaching me something about system synergy, and that even unused channels and i/c's have an overall impact on the sound you hear?