untill i decide to sell or not to sell the mercedes spare wheel i did a " crazy " experiment (that I had already commented to Fried Riem) I just rewire my T1
to a pair of two XLR female connectors (right anf left channels) and connected " directely" to the output of my v800 dac
the volume was controlled by using the front panel "pseudo potentiometer" that operates in the digital domain cutting bits
I was very interesed to taste myself the ballanced sound
the sounding results were really exiting and give my ear with natural sounds
no adding thd no degrading s/n no adding noise no degrading dynamic range and for damping (related to the 600 ohm t1) more than 600
all the spectrum was clearly presented
many persons that were againts the use of the digital potentiometer I can assure to all that i did not feel any slight degradation of sound changing the setting
many people said that cutting bits with that digital pot cut the music but what the real thing that it is wrong If i did not known that the pot was working in the
digital domain for me was like a"normal alps pot" inside the dac same behave
this experiment will work only with 600 ohm headphone impedance because of the limited current supply of the driver ,for the T1 is ok and the dac was enoght
powerfull to drive them
the setting og the pot was between 12 and 14 sometimes even less beacuse of a specific recording
as for the music many female jazz vocalist 1st track of mike oldfield tubular spheres keiko matsui last album (the rock) and many exeptional sountracks
(how to train your dragon, inception ,pimk panther and many more)
Fried Reim told me that I was the first person that did such a direct connection dac-heaphones I know that the limited drive will give serious limitations
to those persons that like high loudness but for myself it is not a problem
anyway the sensation of hearing music in a ballanced "system" had its positives virtudes
