upstateguy
Headphoneus Supremus
- Joined
- Dec 20, 2004
- Posts
- 4,085
- Likes
- 182
Quote:
How do you account for such radical differences?
Maybe it's just me, but I found the Young driver to be just about an opposite of the stock driver in the sense that it is shouting out the treble/midrange, and loses the bass response vs. the stock Hiface that sounds WAY more mellow likely due to much more bass filled in. But the most problematic thing I have with the Young driver is the soundstage seems to shift to the left too much. That center of focus for the music information like vocals that should be dead center are now off a bit. The sound is also a bit computerized or that someone is trying to alter the sound of the natural flow of the original and forcing it to sound different and unlike the original.
I would say the dvd is more natural, but the Hiface with that hot signal is able to get the detail hotter to the ears, so it's really a give/take type of a situation where musical pacing with both is quite even, though I think I could really choose either...soundstage again, very even. Detail just a bit more on the Hiface due to more signal (i.e. I turn my preamp up more since it was late last night and I didn't have a chance to get the music louder), and I can match that level the Hiface is putting out so the dvd player sounds identically detailed/clear in that treble/mid region.
All in all, I have to say the external dac has the majority of what we hear and the transport is only there to relay the feed...any differences we hear are just differences rather than one transport being better than another, etc. But on the dac side of things, if that is not working correctly, I'm certain one could hear differences in transports VERY EASILY.
This all said, both Drez and Shahrose heard a more mellow sound with the Young driver vs. me hearing a far more in your face with treble/midrange and weaker/lesser bass sound with the stock driver.
How do you account for such radical differences?