alphanumerix1
1000+ Head-Fier
Interesting thanks for posting your thoughts.
@JasonNYC Have you had a chance to discuss with your team regarding the filter issue? I would greatly appreciate it if you could provide me some info.@Giraku not sure about the filters, I haven't actually played with a retail version yet. The pre production unit that I used had all of the filters working correctly. I am at CES with our team. Let me ask them for more info and get back to you.
@Giraku sorry for the delay. It looks like all my responses from CES never posted, then got hit with a nasty bout of the flu and have been out of commission for a week.@JasonNYC Have you had a chance to discuss with your team regarding the filter issue? I would greatly appreciate it if you could provide me some info.
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L1000 is a well built small amplifier that doesn't require much space to set up. I love the soft clicking feel of its epic sized volume knob.
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My signal path is:
MacBook Pro (2016) -> Roon 1.4 -> L1000
It is nice to have a variety of connection options for headphones and IEMs. I'm using the following connections:
HE1kv2 -> XLR balanced
TH900 -> standard stereo unbalanced
Tribute 7 -> 3.5mm unbalanced
JH Layla 2 -> 2.5mm balanced
Andromeda -> 3.5mm unbalanced
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Thank you, @JasonNYC, for your input. My L1000 is still a bit under 100 hours, and there is almost no difference among 3 different filter settings yet.@Giraku sorry for the delay. It looks like all my responses from CES never posted, then got hit with a nasty bout of the flu and have been out of commission for a week.
To answer your question, I was told the filters are pretty subtle. As with the case of EQ and our players, all of our filtering is passive and will produce a change in sound, but not overly drastic. We do not like to digitally manipulate the original sound since our goal is to try to produce the most natural sound possible, like it was originally recorded in the studio.
I spent some time with the L1000 at CES and agree, there is not much noticeable change. However, on the unit that had about 200 hours of burn-in vs the one that had a lot less, there was noticeable difference in sound when switching filters.
I don't know how many steps it has. But yes, it allows very fine tuning of the volume. Maybe too fine because sometimes I have to turn the knob quite a lot. But it always feels good.The volume control is probably digital, so do you know how many steps the volume control are? Does it allow finetuning of volume?
No hiss with my HE1kv2. CampFire Andromeda is the only one produces audible hiss. But the amount/volume of the hiss is small enough so that there is no distraction from listening music.Any hiss with the HE1kv2 headphone?
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Thank you, Jason, for the correction.The S1000 speakers are part of our new ACRO desktop line. They are designed to complement the L1000 Desktop Amp. The S1000 speakers are NOT powered. They need to be connected to an amplifier such as the L1000.
I tried JBL control 1 x which paired up quite good but the volume knob had to turn to the second last dot. For 2.5 and 3.5, it gave life to my heir 10, FAD Lab 1,velvet and sem 9 which I found hard to drive with AK 240ss or even sp1000ss.For fourte, u18,k10u,qdc Gemini s, AKT8ie, L1000 played no better than sp1000. For big cans such as k812, T1 and HD800, Hdva 600 was much more preferred.Thank you, Jason, for the correction.
Now I understand that S1000 is designed to be driven by L1000.
Tempting...