Stay away from digital EQ’ing.
No reason to avoid this if you do it before the DAC. Still, for the OP's problem, a Schiit might just do everything he needs. It's cheap, easy to use, easy to install.
Accounting for slight hearing loss
On a whim and with a suspicion, I recently had a hearing test and it showed some loss in left. Mainly around 3k and then recovers some above that. I had noticed (after many good tips gathered on Agon) after really paying attention to set up and room, featured vocal/instrument was often right of center, almost never left. Mind you, i still hear all freq, even quite high and get great staging but often, its annoyingly with a right bias. Maybe that's where he's supposed to be! Thats actually not a trivial point. Funny thing, I can listen to MD Kind of Blue in mono and I sense no shift. Quite opposite as instruments still have some staging. Go figure.
Any tips or tweaks to compensate? Ok, here's where I might be all wet. Lower resistance to tweeter in left XO (phase issues with right?) A mod to extend left baffle above the tweeter some? Simple "Left" on amp works but isnt freq specific. Im suspicious that using an EQ unit will degrade overall sound although that seems the most obvious. Do they? Speakers are Madisound kit Klang+Ton NADA designed with Scanspeak Illuminator drivers. In Lee Taylor cabinets. Amp is Rogue Sphinx V2 (A/D).
Thanks in advance. Otherwise it's a tad "L" on the amp.
Any tips or tweaks to compensate? Ok, here's where I might be all wet. Lower resistance to tweeter in left XO (phase issues with right?) A mod to extend left baffle above the tweeter some? Simple "Left" on amp works but isnt freq specific. Im suspicious that using an EQ unit will degrade overall sound although that seems the most obvious. Do they? Speakers are Madisound kit Klang+Ton NADA designed with Scanspeak Illuminator drivers. In Lee Taylor cabinets. Amp is Rogue Sphinx V2 (A/D).
Thanks in advance. Otherwise it's a tad "L" on the amp.
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No reason to avoid this if you do it before the DAC. No you can do it but, you’ve got 3 digital devices daisy chained before it gets into an analog domain,source, dsp/dac, then into back into your own dac!!!! You want to "sterilize" the sound then this is a good way to do it, it’ll be like using a crap transport into a great dac. First you need a digital output on whatever DSP/dac you use, then your getting whatever nasties two dacs give, one being very cheap, instead of the sound of your favored one. Just go the much simpler analog way with the Schiit Loki akgwhiz it’s cheap and transparent, your system will keep the same sound except for what you’ve boosted, to aid your hearing at that frequency, with no extra digitalis imprinted into the sound Cheers George |
Thanks George, your point is well taken and what was on my mind. I have a really nice DAC with nice tubes so adding another DAC in the chain seems risky as DSP has to convert it first. Still, any comments on Loki (analog) messing with relative phases and therefore imaging? But yeah, I'm liking this route. Thanks all! |
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