(For those who don't believe in power conditioners and power cables, please ignore).
Thicc boiii. So I need to give the AQ Thunder a few days to settle in, but plugged into the Niagara1200, the space in between notes sounds larger than the AQ Blizzard. Blizzard does have a sweeter tone out of box which seems to mirror other users who have compared the two---but Thunder is more technical, both in micro and macro dynamics. I hear more energy to the point where I don't feel the need to turn the volume up as high. In fact i can drop my Ferrum to 0 db/unity instead of +db gain.
We'll see if I ultimately prefer Thunder to Blizzard for my LCD5 chain, as I have a strong preference for sweeter undertones- but I think that is where my incoming TWL XLR and power cord for the Ferrum could help rebalance.
(For those who don't believe in power conditioners and power cables, please ignore).
Thicc boiii. So I need to give the AQ Thunder a few days to settle in, but plugged into the Niagara1200, the space in between notes sounds larger than the AQ Blizzard. Blizzard does have a sweeter tone out of box which seems to mirror other users who have compared the two---but Thunder is more technical, both in micro and macro dynamics. I hear more energy to the point where I don't feel the need to turn the volume up as high. In fact i can drop my Ferrum to 0 db/unity instead of +db gain.
We'll see if I ultimately prefer Thunder to Blizzard for my LCD5 chain, as I have a strong preference for sweeter undertones- but I think that is where my incoming TWL XLR and power cord for the Ferrum could help rebalance.
I'll DM you to avoid giving the trolls additional ammo . But yep, stock cables everywhere else, and switching one cable at a time to create a consistent baseline of what differences I am picking up.
@EMINENT (and anyone else use stacking convolution files and PEQ in HQPlayer) In our case using a low shelf in addition to Mitch's convolution.
I was doing some reading last night and you'll want to include the headroom in the matrix settings rather than on the low shelf itself .txt file itself, that way it applies the setting to both the convolution and low shelf equally which run in parallel in the pipeline. It didn't change the plot at all after making this change but to my ears it does sound better. You can either remove the preamp setting from the .txt, or take it one step further as I did and remove the .txt file for the low shelf after you add the negative preamp gain to each channel. I removed the file and added the low shelf after the convolution by manually plugging it in (with a comma after the convolution, adjust yours to preference)
@EMINENT (and anyone else use stacking convolution files and PEQ in HQPlayer) In our case using a low shelf in addition to Mitch's convolution.
I was doing some reading last night and you'll want to include the headroom in the matrix settings rather than on the low shelf itself .txt file itself, that way it applies the setting to both the convolution and low shelf equally which run in parallel in the pipeline. It didn't change the plot at all after making this change but to my ears it does sound better. You can either remove the preamp setting from the .txt, or take it one step further as I did and remove the .txt file for the low shelf after you add the negative preamp gain to each channel. I removed the file and added the low shelf after the convolution by manually plugging it in (with a comma after the convolution, adjust yours to preference)
Just found out the attenuation should be in the matrix setting per channel. If you had it in the PEQ txt file like the one I provided earlier you’ll want to change it as outlined above. PM me if you have questions
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. But yep, stock cables everywhere else, and switching one cable at a time to create a consistent baseline of what differences I am picking up.
