Question for Weiss Dac 501 Owners

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.