[OCC7N]

I am curious of what is the most used filter. Switching from FIL1 to FIL3 added some analog sweetness to the vocals.

I think FIL3 is my favorite, most obvious to hear in blindtest. Everytime I land on FIL3.

FIL1 does not feel engaging, but does have the highs more narrowed.

XFD1 does give the Susvara a little lift(centered punch), even though XFD0 has better soundstage.

What are your favs?

XFD and FIL

 

[Kentajalli]

I am curious of what is the most used filter. Switching from FIL1 to FIL3 added some analog sweetness to the vocals.

AFAIK, first two filters operate at 256X oversampling, while the last two at 16X.
So it is not just a high frequency filter, but also controls the number of oversampling.
F1 and F3 are straight line options (flat to 20kHz), while F2 and F4 add a little audio high frequency (and above) attenuation, mostly used for taming Hi-Res tracks with excessive out-of-band noise.
The fact you like F3 over F1, is perhaps you like 16X oversampling to 256X, otherwise frequency response of both should be identical.

 

[OCC7N]

AFAIK, first two filters operate at 256X oversampling, while the last two at 16X.
So it is not just a high frequency filter, but also controls the number of oversampling.
F1 and F3 are straight line options (flat to 20kHz), while F2 and F4 add a little audio high frequency (and above) attenuation, mostly used for taming Hi-Res tracks with excessive out-of-band noise.
The fact you like F3 over F1, is perhaps you like 16X oversampling to 256X, otherwise frequency response of both should be identical.

FIL3 sounds more open to me. I just made 4 blindtest. I don´t like FIL4. I end up at FIL3 no matter the XFD

XFD01 and FIL3 gave some life to the Susvara.

 

[Kentajalli]

Above is from Hugo2 specs. There is not much info that I can find tonight for TT2, but I bet it is the same implementation.
You can see how filters work.
Regarding Xfeed, I personally don't like to artificially limit the stereo separation (that's what Xfeed does), however, some open-back headphones have a defused (ish) sound stage, Susvara included.
By defused, I mean they sort of have reduced central image, and all else is too wide apart, so a small crossfeed helps.
On my Edition XS review, I mentioned at the time that the stereo image was akin to being out-of-phase! I really meant defused.
I accidentally found a small mod. to address the issue, and it has worked for me very well. The central image got improved, and stereo image became more pin-point, as opposed to being all over the place.
https://www.head-fi.org/threads/hifiman-edition-xs-mods.961413/

 

[TheMiddleSky]

Always with No Crossfeed and Fil1 here.

Sometimes Crossfeed may come in handy when i listen to old recording that has "extreme" separation signal on left and right. For majority of recordings, no crossfeed is the best for me, create a complete imaging that wrap my head.

 

[betula]

I think it mostly depends on headphones/speakers, but to me with my preferred Audeze, Meze and Final headphones I always liked filter nr1 with crossfeed on the 2.

 

[OCC7N]

I have finally found the difference between my diablo and tt2.

"I'm sitting at a table, with some friends in a club/bar"

The whole club is the TT2(FIL1 XFD0), I can hear everybody, the vibe the atmosphere. I feel like dancing...

From nowhere suddenly an interesting subject comes up, I get tuned into the subject, I'm focused(diablo), everything else is "blurred"

Both is amazing in there way..

 

[Reactcore]

For who havent already seen.. Mike & Dave's opinions of TT2 and HMS:

 

[Kentajalli]

I have finally found the difference between my diablo and tt2.
"I'm sitting at a table, with some friends in a club/bar"
The whole club is the TT2(FIL1 XFD0), I can hear everybody, the vibe the atmosphere. I feel like dancing...
From nowhere suddenly an interesting subject comes up, I get tuned into the subject, I'm focused(diablo), everything else is "blurred"
Both is amazing in there way..

Further to what we were talking about the various filters (F1 to F4), Rob Watts explains the filters on his DACs in a recent interview.
Check it out at about 38 minutes.

 

[Mike Hughes]

Today my TT2 has decided to trip my electrics repeatedly. Call to the dealer as clearly something is amiss.

 

[OCC7N]

Today my TT2 has decided to trip my electrics repeatedly. Call to the dealer as clearly something is amiss.

Can you please explaing a little?

I had problems with unplugging the usb out and in again. I had to switch usb to opt and back again

 

[Mike Hughes]

Nothing much to explain. Was watching TV when an RCD tripped. Managed to trip it several more times and by a process of elimination concluded that it’s either an Innuos Zenith or the TT2. The former is on a Musicline Powerigel with my amps and power supplies and seems unlikely to be tripping anything. Ergo it must be the TT2.

 

[OCC7N]

Nothing much to explain. Was watching TV when an RCD tripped. Managed to trip it several more times and by a process of elimination concluded that it’s either an Innuos Zenith or the TT2. The former is on a Musicline Powerigel with my amps and power supplies and seems unlikely to be tripping anything. Ergo it must be the TT2.

Ok. connected with optical cable I guess?

 

[Mike Hughes]

No, USB from Zenith to TT2.

 

[OCC7N]

No, USB from Zenith to TT2.

Ok. hmm. Just curious how long have you had the TT2 before this happened?