Gents, I actually switched to accurate fw 3 when I first heard how over-smooth the smooth version was. Problem is, while accurate was certainly much sharper and more detailed, with super-resolving headphones like the Elex it was actually too sharp, if that makes sense. Vocals - especially some female vocals (Sarah Maclachlan ‘Fallen’ unplugged comes to mind) sounded ever so thin and edgy. It’s like a sharpening filter applied to a portrait photo that brings out too many pores in the skin - great if you’re after every single detail, but it leaves nothing to the imagination and borders on harsh. This probably is far less of an issue with speakers that diffuse the sound around the room, but with headphones up close and personal, it just occasionally became fatiguing. Some of Nils Lofgren’s guitar work in Acoustic Live - a superbly mastered recording - became positively razor sharp (and not in a good way) with accurate fw. Switching back to smooth v2 didn’t make all the details go away, but they just fell back a little and made more sense musically.
It’s great that Kingwa continues to give us options to tweak the sound of the R-28, but it doesn’t mean that newer is always better.
My only option now is version 3 and V3A detail is very goods than first version.
I will give it a try first and adapt to it.
too sharp I never try NOS mode before now I think I in oversampling x8
which I quite ok with it.
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