Question for Weiss Dac 501 Owners

I have.  Their are certain recordings I have that I like to run the DSPs on and depending on how I am listening, I will use different functions. 

If I am listening at low levels, I turn on loudness.  If I am listening to 80's hair metal or other poorly recorded music that lacks bass (Metallica before black album, Motley Crue's early stuff like Shout at the Devil) I have a DSP that is a bass boost to correct for the absence.  

My room is open on either side so I tend not to have a bump in bass at 120hz so I don't use that but that will change when I move I bet.  Certain bad recordings (usually bootlegs) I will turn on the d'esser.  I will admit I do not use and do not like vinyl mode.  

The DSPs are very easily accessed via a web browser.  You just put the IP address in and it takes you to the page.  The IP address is easily retrieved via the setup menu.  Takes like 10 seconds to get it.  

Hi Larry,

as mentioned by verdantaudio, once you have created and saved your DSP-setting profiles you can assign them to your remote (number 1 - x).

I personally don't use it, as my listening room is quite good and the overall chain neutral as well. 

D'esser may help with some "bright" vocals, but I prefer to fix the source and not getting EQ-crazy ;-)

P.S.: I've just sent my 501 to Switzerland, because I get my upgrade 4ch upgrade, which I'm quite excited, after talking with Daniel & Joschka Weiss. It will be around €2.800 ... here are the details. I'll not using 4channel feature, but the overall update on the analogue section will be the next level for the 501 ;-)

I tried out the DSP features when I first got the DAC, but ended up preferring the base sound the best. Still, I love having options and like that I could try it out more in the future. 

Following this thread. I have not tried the DSP functions yet.

I have had my Weiss for two months. I could not be more satisfied. I am getting a very natural sounding presentation. I have tried the loudness function and also the vinyl DSP on some of the terrible sounding early digital rock recordings from the 70s. I have not use the de-esser. I’ve connected my Weiss with a Fiber optical cable and two ethernet converter boxes from the router. I enjoy the three interfaces to control the Weiss. This is a very well thought and executed piece of gear. Not much for the bling factor but the compact size is appreciated. Thanks to those who have contributed to this thread.

Larry

I did not respond to this thread back in July, had just moved homes.  In my last home, I had a pretty symmetrical room, and found the DSP function not all that necessary, and perhaps a slight sound quality hit when activating them.  My new room is totally asymmetrical and has some bass issues.  With the DSP I have tamed a boom issue around 100 hz and bumped up the bass in one channel at low frequencies to make up for the other side having a wall closer to it, and bumped up both channels bass in the lowest octave given other room issues.  It works great.  So my conclusion has been it’s nice to have if you need them, and they work nicely.    Very flexible settings with lots of options. 

I have found that the room correction has been most useful—I have a node at 135Hz and it’s amazing to be able to reduce the dB at that frequency.

I tried the headphone equalization with Audeze lcd-3. My first impression is that it makes a pleasant difference.  Will listen more extensively with and without over the next couple of days.  Compared to Yggdrasil A2 the phones are more lively with better upper mids.