Any suggestions to what preamp I could try with moon 430ha? Tried TT2 earlier but didn’t make any difference.
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Ok, I have a serious question here and would like some advice please.
Susvara have not arrived yet. In the meantime I have a Benchmark AHB2 sitting here waiting for it.
So, regarding running the Susvara from a speaker amp, does anyone unplug their Susvara before powering on or powering off their amplifier? Or do you always leave your Susvara plugged into your amplifier?
If so, I assume this would be easier if I had a banana to female XLR adapter and unplugged it that way. My initial plan was to have Matt at Forza make me a continuous cable with bananas on the amplifier end. If bananas are used, I don't want to risk shorting something out by connecting and disconnecting.
I have to straighten this out before the Susvara get here.
Susvara have not arrived yet. In the meantime I have a Benchmark AHB2 sitting here waiting for it.
So, regarding running the Susvara from a speaker amp, does anyone unplug their Susvara before powering on or powering off their amplifier? Or do you always leave your Susvara plugged into your amplifier?
If so, I assume this would be easier if I had a banana to female XLR adapter and unplugged it that way. My initial plan was to have Matt at Forza make me a continuous cable with bananas on the amplifier end. If bananas are used, I don't want to risk shorting something out by connecting and disconnecting.
I have to straighten this out before the Susvara get here.
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I don't have a AHB2 but with my speakers amp I never leave the Susvara connected to it if not listening. I stop the music, lower the amp volume to zero and disconnect the Sus (I have it connected through a spades to XLR adapter which I leave connected and just pull the headphones cable out), then I turn it off.
I also first power it on, wait for the quick warm-up to finish, connect the Sus, start music, raise the volume.
Might be different recommendations for different amps but my two cents..
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That's exactly what I was thinking.
I have a mute button on my DAC. I will push that, turn the preamp volume to zero, unplug the XLR adapter, then on/off the amp.
I guess I'll have to have Matt make a headphone cable AND an adapter.
jalayjoshi
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I always leave my susvaras plugged in to my lyngdorf, no problem.
It will be safe to keep it plugged in to AHB2 since it has some amazing safety features.
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Hmmm...
The Benchmark AHB2 amp has a 4-pole SpeakOn connector that offers very neat and clean adapter options such as these:
I don't know of any other amp with that type of connector. It's nicer than bananas or spades for headphone use-cases. I haven't tried either of these adapters myself, but if I had a Susvara & AHB2, that's what I'd want.
I don't know of any other amp with that type of connector. It's nicer than bananas or spades for headphone use-cases. I haven't tried either of these adapters myself, but if I had a Susvara & AHB2, that's what I'd want.
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Thank you.
Any examples of especially deep non-binaural recordings?
For me, I was expecting more depth variation on these classical albums which seem very well recorded in every other way
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What are you expecting? I am guessing worse soundstage than your ZMF? I don’t hear any issue with either recording with my gear. You may not actually like the HFM presentation. Did you demo the cans before you buy?
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Yeah those recordings sound absolutely excellent, very nice and natural with tonnes of detail, texture and width and height. It's just that depthwise it never comes forward.
Well it's weird... I can hear the spatial cues telling me it sounds as if it's forward, it's just when I try to figure out how far forward it is, I realise that it's actually still back near my ears. If that makes any sense... with the ZMF Atrium, some things literally sound like they're coming from ~7cm in front of the line between my ears (with non-binarual, like Billie Eilish Happier Than Ever album for example.)
Well it's weird... I can hear the spatial cues telling me it sounds as if it's forward, it's just when I try to figure out how far forward it is, I realise that it's actually still back near my ears. If that makes any sense... with the ZMF Atrium, some things literally sound like they're coming from ~7cm in front of the line between my ears (with non-binarual, like Billie Eilish Happier Than Ever album for example.)
BillinSF
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Check this out. Made to use the Speakon connectors on the back of the AHB2. Work great.
https://fogcityaudio.com/products/headphone-adaptor-cable-benchmark-ahb2-nl4-to-female-4-pin-xlr
Sorry. Just saw that someone made this same recommendation up the thread.
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Zynsonix (@HiGHFLYiN9) quality of work is excellent, have few of his cables and switchboxes, and just ordered myself another banana to XLR cables from him myself! can't go wrong..