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I have a question for owners of Max/HD-600 combos, particularly those that use crossfeed:
Since getting my Max, I have generally kept my gain setting on high, crossfeed on, and filter off. As you know, with HD-600s in particular, this seems to give the lower mid-bass a bit of a kick up. Last night I was listening and, for no particular reason, decided to see if switching the gain to "low" would sound much different (volume adjusted to match) than the high setting. I was most interested in potentiometer (volume control) position, as have seen it suggested at least once that using the higher settings of a potentiometer might be better than the lower settings (this wasn't discussed specific to the Max).
Anyway, I noticed something when going to the low gain setting -- the mid-bass peak was more controlled, tighter with the HD-600s. I still haven't tried to see if this is also true with my Etymotics, but I'll try that later or this weekend. Has anyone else noticed this with the HD-600s? Even if you don't listen to the Max in high gain setting, can you try it (you have to try to match volume level as closely as possibly obviously)? I'd be curious to see what you find.
And if you find it to be true for you too, does anyone have a possible explanation for this? It might have absolutely nothing to do with the potentiometer position in and of itself, but I'm curious about that and other possibilities.
Thanks in advance.
Since getting my Max, I have generally kept my gain setting on high, crossfeed on, and filter off. As you know, with HD-600s in particular, this seems to give the lower mid-bass a bit of a kick up. Last night I was listening and, for no particular reason, decided to see if switching the gain to "low" would sound much different (volume adjusted to match) than the high setting. I was most interested in potentiometer (volume control) position, as have seen it suggested at least once that using the higher settings of a potentiometer might be better than the lower settings (this wasn't discussed specific to the Max).
Anyway, I noticed something when going to the low gain setting -- the mid-bass peak was more controlled, tighter with the HD-600s. I still haven't tried to see if this is also true with my Etymotics, but I'll try that later or this weekend. Has anyone else noticed this with the HD-600s? Even if you don't listen to the Max in high gain setting, can you try it (you have to try to match volume level as closely as possibly obviously)? I'd be curious to see what you find.
And if you find it to be true for you too, does anyone have a possible explanation for this? It might have absolutely nothing to do with the potentiometer position in and of itself, but I'm curious about that and other possibilities.
Thanks in advance.