i asked for NFB-10 modified for coax input change for bnc input + TCXO upgrade but during the high demand of there product they didn't accept costumize orders ??
The problem is academic since ROC is discontinued, but any interconnects, even custom ACSS cables, degrade performance. Benefits from upgraded power supplies may be lost by having to plug another unit.
Yesterday I went to a friend, which have 2 speaker AMP's, so we test how they drives HE-6 compared to balanced HP out of NFB-10ES.... We both agreed that all three is good for driving HE-6, but balanced on NFB-10ES is slightly better (in my opinion it's more than slightly...), it's more noticeably on "heavy" music, for example Happy Birthday by The Birthday Massacre: there a lot less of "blur" and every instrument is sound clear, also the bass is more "solid" and have better attack. As I already sayd, they all have enough power to drive HE-6, so the difference probably in balance... but I can't say that for sure.
P.S. As for SE out of NFB-10ES... seems it simply doesn't have enough power to drive HE-6, on SE they sound worse than on balanced or speker amp (on SE), and I mean a lot worse than them...
Cheers DragonOwen I was hoping this was the case - for me the SE output lacked bass impact and speed on my LCD-2 also. I might try HE-500 when they come out also (or HE-6) but I'm afraid if either will be too bright. I have also heard that he-6 can sound bright when under-amped did you experience this?
Cheers DragonOwen I was hoping this was the case - for me the SE output lacked bass impact and speed on my LCD-2 also. I might try HE-500 when they come out also (or HE-6) but I'm afraid if either will be too bright. I have also heard that he-6 can sound bright when under-amped did you experience this?
I didn't feel that they are brighter when it's lack of power for them, they just sound worse: lack of bass, distorsions, blurness and lot of other things, but brightness is the same... In my opinion brightness of HE-6 is depending on brightness of DAC, and Sabre is bright (at least in NFB-10ES), so I have quite a lot of sibilants on many records, but I like bright sound (listened to Sennheiser 650 and it's not my sound for sure) so sibilants doesn't bother me compared to overall sound of NFB-10ES + HE-6.... Still I'm waiting for arriving my Silver Dragon V3 cable from moon-audio, because one guy at russian forum (he is very respected there) recommend it, and one of the things that he says become better is that brightness has left the sound almost completely (after "warming" of course). Also waiting Black Dragon power cable from them... so maybe with this 2 cables sound will change
Cheers DragonOwen I was hoping this was the case - for me the SE output lacked bass impact and speed on my LCD-2 also. I might try HE-500 when they come out also (or HE-6) but I'm afraid if either will be too bright. I have also heard that he-6 can sound bright when under-amped did you experience this?
In my case it depends on record, on some it seems bright and have lot sibilants, on other there are no sibilants at all and sound seems neutral... So guess it's just NFB-10ES is very trustful to every detail in record and if record is bright then it will be uncovered ruthlessly... This explanation is only my guessing though, because I hear the sibilants on some record very clearly and my friend has the same opinion, but why it's like that we could only guessing
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