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post #31 of 35
12/15/12 at 7:07pm
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Originally Posted by AnakChan View Post

 

Welcome to the HP-A8 bandwagon! It's actually quite a decent DAC/Amp. What firmware are you on?

 

Thank you :)

 

I upgraded to 1.31. I wish it would remember which source I was listening to when I powered down. 

 

Having spent a bit more time with it I am pretty impressed. There is texture in the music that I missed before with other gear. For the first time ever I am questioning if I need to "upgrade" my music instead of my equipment as its picking up such subtleties that I am worried the MP3 format has impacted on.

 

Anyways Im really enjoying it and think the money spent was worth it. (I went from Violectric V100 & NFB3.2 combo).

 

The Violectric has more power, but I would not want to listen to music at such loud volumes.

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post #32 of 35
1/4/13 at 3:05am
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Originally Posted by navii View Post

 

Thank you :)

 

I upgraded to 1.31. I wish it would remember which source I was listening to when I powered down. 

 

 

 

With Firmware 1.31, I think you can function it to remember now.  

 

In the MENU command, select Sub Menu "--> IN/VOL MEM".  The "Default" is "Disable".

Then you either choose "Input, Volume or Input+Volume".  Now your HP-A8 can recall the last source or volume level as well.

 

In addition, I prefer the sound from the change of Digital Filter to "MINIMUM DELAY" and Master Clock to "XTAL" (external clock in HP-A8 or TCXO).  If anyone has never changed anything from "default" setting, highly recommend you to try!

 

Have fun ^^

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post #33 of 35
1/4/13 at 9:58am
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Originally Posted by jimmy8269 View Post

 

 

With Firmware 1.31, I think you can function it to remember now.  

 

In the MENU command, select Sub Menu "--> IN/VOL MEM".  The "Default" is "Disable".

Then you either choose "Input, Volume or Input+Volume".  Now your HP-A8 can recall the last source or volume level as well.

 

In addition, I prefer the sound from the change of Digital Filter to "MINIMUM DELAY" and Master Clock to "XTAL" (external clock in HP-A8 or TCXO).  If anyone has never changed anything from "default" setting, highly recommend you to try!

 

Have fun ^^

 

Cheers for the tip. What am I looking for with the Digital Filter & Master Clock? I've changed it and it's not immediately obvious to me (i.e. kinda sounds the same!).

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post #34 of 35
1/4/13 at 8:50pm

thanks for the tip jimmy

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post #35 of 35
1/10/13 at 9:11am

do you think these have better synergy with your  Fostex TH-900 than the pres?

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