Signs of life.
Hmm, things getting very interesting with my hitherto unimpressive Superflys.
My dealer split my Hutter Racktime but, in the process of reconnecting my system, we managed to achieve total silence! Long story short - the problem was a Burndy cable connecting my Naim CDX2 to its XPS2 power supply. Cable heading for repair whilst CD player now powered up without it.
Now, I've already experienced the phenomena whereby Zu speakers like, nay love, less Naim boxes so I wasn't too unhappy with trying this. Indeed, before things went silent my dealer was intending to try reducing my 7 boxes to 3 to see what happens. However, I also believe in one thing at a time. So, given that the Hutter has just been split and the CD player has lost a power supply, I'm happy to sit tight for a few days and feel my way toward assessing the differences.
First thoughts?
1) The Hutter was definitely impacting on the output of the right speaker in terms of bass, mids, dynamics and coherence.
2) I'm not sure the output is completely balanced as the sofa on the long wall may still be impacting but sound from TV and CD has immediately improved in terms of dynamics and detail. Bass has also improved and imaging is much more central. Too early to say if the improvement is enough but it is obvious.
3) Some of the above may also be the loss of a CD player power supply. It's remarkable how dynamics and detail have improved despite the loss of a box that would normally improve both. Gonna live with it for a week or so and then remove the power supplies from the pre and see what that brings.
Listened to more in the past 24 hours than the past 2 weeks, which rather speaks for itself. Will report back as we progress further.
