If you haven't done any room treatment, have a look at REW and "see" where your at as far as system response and room interface is concerned... Speaker placement is pretty important and REW can "show" what speaker movement does for your overall system response...
Confused as to where to go next...looking for warmth
I hope this is the right place for this posting. I don't ever post, but do tons of reading and "window shopping." I have gotten myself into a little bit of analysis paralysis. I hope that you guys can help clear up the muddy waters for me!
When listening to music, I am using a Bluesound Node 2i, an upgrade over the Apple TV that I was using. I was using Tidal for both, and now testing a Roon core installed on an Apple computer.
My processor/receiver is an Arcam FMJ AVR 400, but I use it with an external Liberty Audio B2B-100 power amp (200wpc@4ohms), driving an older pair of Totem Forest speakers. I also have a Totem Model 1 signature center for watching tv.
I want to improve the 2 channel sound of the system. My impression is that the Forests and Liberty are very revealing and clean sounding. I don't have the audiophile vocabulary, but I will try. I think the system is lacking something, it sounds dark, maybe on the clinical side. I want the music to better come alive and add some warmth, without sacrificing detail and punch. Hopefully that makes sense.
The Schiit Freya+ has my attention and I have been looking at DACs. The Freya may add the warmth that I am looking for, and I can run it in home theater bypass for watching movies/TV. My DAC research has confounded me, however...
The option I would probably go with, if I didn't decider to tech out to you guys, is to get the Freya+ and Gungnir DAC. That seems like a matched system, eliminates the HT processor from 2 channel listening, and I would think would be a massive improvement.
The DAC confusion started when I started looking at all of the different options out there. Topping D90, Tubadour, MHDT Orchid, etc. So much that I started to doubt the Freya even...
I hope that provides enough detail for what I am trying to accomplish. My budget can be described as towards the best bang for the buck..trying not to spend more than $2000 +/-, hopefully less than that. Open to used. Thanks in advance for your input!
Andy
Dallas, TX
When listening to music, I am using a Bluesound Node 2i, an upgrade over the Apple TV that I was using. I was using Tidal for both, and now testing a Roon core installed on an Apple computer.
My processor/receiver is an Arcam FMJ AVR 400, but I use it with an external Liberty Audio B2B-100 power amp (200wpc@4ohms), driving an older pair of Totem Forest speakers. I also have a Totem Model 1 signature center for watching tv.
I want to improve the 2 channel sound of the system. My impression is that the Forests and Liberty are very revealing and clean sounding. I don't have the audiophile vocabulary, but I will try. I think the system is lacking something, it sounds dark, maybe on the clinical side. I want the music to better come alive and add some warmth, without sacrificing detail and punch. Hopefully that makes sense.
The Schiit Freya+ has my attention and I have been looking at DACs. The Freya may add the warmth that I am looking for, and I can run it in home theater bypass for watching movies/TV. My DAC research has confounded me, however...
The option I would probably go with, if I didn't decider to tech out to you guys, is to get the Freya+ and Gungnir DAC. That seems like a matched system, eliminates the HT processor from 2 channel listening, and I would think would be a massive improvement.
The DAC confusion started when I started looking at all of the different options out there. Topping D90, Tubadour, MHDT Orchid, etc. So much that I started to doubt the Freya even...
I hope that provides enough detail for what I am trying to accomplish. My budget can be described as towards the best bang for the buck..trying not to spend more than $2000 +/-, hopefully less than that. Open to used. Thanks in advance for your input!
Andy
Dallas, TX
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