Cacophonix
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When you turn on the unit, is it normal to have the display blink for a little while before it starts to function?
When you turn on the unit, is it normal to have the display blink for a little while before it starts to function?
I've been considering upgrading from a NFB-5 to a NFB-10ES2, do you guys think it's a major upgrade? Especially tempting now while the $580 promo is going on.
Awesome, thanks guys!
I picked up a used NFB-10SE recently and have started playing around with it. I don't have a good headphone like many of you have here. I wanted to use it more as a DAC/pre with my dynaudio BM-5a mk2 monitors in my office. It was set up to operate as a DAC by default, and i removed the jumper to get it function as preamp. Even with low gain, i find the volume to be quite loud at level 1. When i read it is digitally controlled with 48steps, i assumed that i'd get better control over the volume. Does this reflect your experiences as well? I might have to go back to using the squeezebox volume control ...
Also , is there a difference between 10SE and 10.32SE? How can i tell which is which?
Sorry, but it's been awhile since I've owned one of these, hope I can help from my memory of this unit.
1. Are you sure removing the pin turns on the preamp functionality?
2. Is there any sort of volume setting on the monitors, or way to trim the sound by a flat set of decibels?
3. I don't recall, but I believe the unit's high/low gain affects preamp. Make sure you're set at the lower.
Hope this helps. Other than that, I'm fresh out of ideas :/
Yeh, removing the pin does enable the variable line out functionality. Or else it is fixed line (works as a DAC). I do have it set to low gain ... else it way too loud (+12db). I can still control the vol on the squeezebox... which is what i might go back to. No point in having multiple vol controls. But as a headphone amp, it is by far the best i've had. Almost startlingly good.
Gah! Sorry I couldn't help ya then.
Nice monitors, btw. I'm about to grab some higher end speaker and I don't know if I should get monitors or not.
Oh, to me its a no brainer. Active monitors are head and shoulders above passive ones for the same money. You can get a pair of dynaudio bm5a mk2 for under $800, and there is nothing that can come close to them in a small to mid sized room. The imaging is spooky, and they just sound -right-.
Also , is there a difference between 10SE and 10.32SE? How can i tell which is which?
Tough to say. Kingwa cranks out so many units there isn't a chance for people to really compare them. I would guess that you wouldn't get a huge upgrade, unless you really committed your headphones to being balanced. Come to think of it, is the NFB10 a balanced version of the NFB5?