Speaker placement and adjusting gain / crossover settings on your sub are great advice and the first place to start. Comments on the design difference between DAC’s are spot on, R2R will have a very different sound signature vs those with newer chip designs. R2R’s sound signature is talked up as being much more analogue, tube, vinyl sounding. It emphasizes the mids, lows and tends to be more gentle on the highs. It’s often described as more “musical, warmer” but less analytic, “Hifi” sounding. Synergy is key, if your system is already on the warmer side, your speakers roll off a bit on top and or are known to highlight the mids, the 15 might be too much of a good thing. The fact you hear a noticeable difference is a great thing system wise, if you don’t have a system set up that could highlight differences in a DAC wouldn’t be all that noticeable. Unsure of your equipment is room ready, if it is, sign up for the free trial, you can use their EQ software to tailor the sound, curve. That would give you a really good understanding of what you might be hearing. You can drop the mods / lows and juice up the highs, if that doesn’t provide a different sonic signature than something else is going on. The Sony is no slouch and it’s likely designed / engineered to deliver something closer to how the track was originally recorded, that might be what you prefer over the overall sound signature of R2R DAC’s.
My Denafrips Aries 15th has too much mid -bass, anybody else??
Hey guys, so after hearing so many wonderful things about the dinner fripps Dax I purchased in Aries too quickly sold that way too much mid base very thick not to my liking. Had a chance to step up to the Aries 15th as the reviews had it cleaned up a lot of that middle. Unfortunately I found pretty much the same thing maybe a hair better. Ive tried both nos/ os and not much difference so i dont know what else i can do. Is anybody else experiencing this with their systems? I'm a shocked that it have not experienced the system transformation ive heard so much about. I run a Sony hap Z1es and the internal dac sounds much punchier/ cleaner than the 15th. The rest of my modest system is Belles Aria integrated, Vapor Audio Cirrus speakers and Martin Logan 600x. Sub Thanks for your thoughts
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@richardbrand confused, the DAC is a R2R latter design. Nothing wrong with that many love the sound signature. The design is an older design known for its natural, warm, analogue, tube like sound. The Denafrips has the full suite of options, outputs, DSD but it’s still a R2R latter design at its core. It’s not a DAC implementation using Delta Sigma designed chips. R2R DAC’s have a general sound signature, DSD does as well. Pair the together, it’s not surprising that you hear the differences you do between the Sony and the Denafrips. |