swanlee
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Ha Ha so funny as I accidentally made a few extra mouse clicks just about 15 mins ago and somehow managed to order a pair of WhiteCat AD8065's for the XM5.
I'm pretty happy with the synergy right now but I cannot resist the urge of playing with different combinations. Love the fact this portable amp has so many built in features plus you can swap out buffers and op amps at will.
Great great product.
Originally Posted by morfic /img/forum/go_quote.gif Passive indeed drops the volume, which makes A/B comparisons pretty much impossible, since you always fiddle with volume knob up and down, but i admit, if i engaged it on the XM4 and left the adjusted volume alone it sounded about as well as the XM5. Active xfeed is supposed to add some delay to the signal instead of just mixing a fraction into either of the opposing channels. I can't say i notice it, but also, i did not have the XM4 and XM5 side by side to say for sure. swanlee: you now have two choices, leave the opamp alone and go on listening to music, or picking up a couple different opamps and finding out if you could get a better synergy between amp and phones ;P I for one am not done yet, got two more DIP-8 sets coming before i finally add the AD8065s from Practical Devices to the mix. I'll have so many to choose from in the end, i could have a library of phones and find the perfect match in opamps ;P If i only had the budget for so many phones Either way, enjoy, it has made listening to music even more fun, and i agree analog volume control rocks. |
Ha Ha so funny as I accidentally made a few extra mouse clicks just about 15 mins ago and somehow managed to order a pair of WhiteCat AD8065's for the XM5.
I'm pretty happy with the synergy right now but I cannot resist the urge of playing with different combinations. Love the fact this portable amp has so many built in features plus you can swap out buffers and op amps at will.
Great great product.