@Christer, you see video and audio recorded seperately at different time and combined later on. audio recorded through Olympus ls100 recorder at 24bit 96khz and resampled to 16bit 48khz using izotope 64bit src at highest possible filter length, then dithered to 16 bit using izotope mbit ultra dither, then converted to 320kbps aac. video shot through Lenovo P2 at standard setting and resoulution, bit rate reduced drastically, then combined audio and video using mkv merge and format factory to keep the size of video minimum without affecting audio because the audio mattered most . i would suggest you to listen to the recording through headphone.
Hello rkt31, no personal offence intended. But since I already have the Qutest and have listened to the H2 via highend headphones many hours I am not sure what listening via headphones in this case would add to my listening experience?
I am happy to hear you like your H2. Good for you.
I quite like my Qutest too. But let's make things very clear it is NO DAVE nor DAVE/BLU2.
I would be very interested though, to really hear what the AHB2 might add in my own system in noise floor and dynamics. And when I say dynamics I am thinking of how much more of the extremely LOW LEVEL information that has a tendency to hide below a system's noise floor it might reveal over my current amplification which has a higher noise floor than both of our DACs unlike your Benchmark which is as far as I know a world leader in that respect.
My amplification is the limiting factor in dynamics compared to the Benchmark.
But there is NO WAY, absolutely NO WAY any such theoretical or audible advantage would be noticable even via headphones via your video since you have used a digital recorder not capable of resolving even at its native 24/96 setting the parts in your system, not to mention downsampled for your video.
And although very nice to listen to, the music you have chosen is virtually devoid of any real dynamic range anyway.
IMHO it is the kind of music often chosen at HIFI shows and demos by many brands simply because it sounds nice via basically any decent system.
I have to admit that even in your video,which by the way really sucks visually, it still sounds quite nice.
But what you and many others posting videos like this one obviously fail to realize is that all videos like this can REALLY do is be visual teasers anyway. And in that respect like I said above and in my first post, it really sucks.
It brings to mind the Swedish Company Electrolux's famous campaign for their vaccum cleaners in the USA. "Nothing sucks like Electrolux"
I can't even see that the black box on your table is a Benchmark amp.
My advice to you and other budding videographers is to use at least a decent camera for your videos.
And if you still insist on handholding it,PLEASE use some kind of stabilizer.
But the best way is to use a a good camera and a tripod EVERY time you make a video that you want to share with others on the web.
Cheers and enjoy both your H2 and your AHB2 Christer
I am personally a bit tempted to add both two AHB2s,one for each channel, and Benchmark's new preamp headphone amp to my system.
Until Rob launches his digital amps the Benchmarks are quite possibly just that, Benchmarks as far as low noise floor is concerned. The new headphone amp obviously has the lowest measured noise floor of any amp on the market?
I am quite keen to hear how it might improve, if at all, on my current Benchmark headphone amp that I use with my Qutest via headphones.
