chesebert
18 Years An Extra-Hardcore Head-Fi'er
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When I first got the Transporter I thought it sounded rather cold, good bass, not great midrange, messed up timber, overly aggressive leading edge.
Thought I made a mistake, but figured hell with it I am gonna burn the hell out of it. Its been over a week now and things def mellowed out quite a bit, gone was the aggressive leading edge, midrange bloomed, and timber is pretty much right, bass is still pretty nice. I really enjoying using transporter for low-level listen cuz the bass seems endless going through the Ayre.
Tweaks that works with the transporter:
1. better power cable; the improvement was almost instant (I have the Violet Z1 on it)
2. Herbie tenter feet works to bring out the midrange a bit more, the bass is slightly less but since it was so abundant to begin with, no problem there.
3. power conditioning, very obvious different plugging directly to a dedicated circuit vs plugging to the UPC200 that's plugged in its dedicated circuit
4. probably the largest improvement - squeeze center 7.0 with FW33; who would have thought software upgrade yields the greatest improvement in listenabitily. With 6.5.x the sound is like your average $1k DAC, with squeeze center, the sound took on an analog-like character - yeah.. not far from C5Xe and Saturn (Saturn's bass is not as good as TP for the simple reason that Ayre simply works better with balanced)
random observation: TP does something special with the DV332, I prefer TP over Saturn going to the 332 with K701; I run 332 out of my Ayre tape out, I am thinking TP's balanced operation really lowers the noise floor; whatever the reason AKG and Grado now sounds excellent on the 332.
So the gist of it is - if you are still on 6.5.x time to upgrade!
<bigshot, sugarinthegourd, LawnGnome, Febs, OverlordXenu, Leporello, Riboge, fkclo, meat01>
will the above people please DO NOT post in this thread. THANK YOU FOR YOUR COOPERATION.
Thought I made a mistake, but figured hell with it I am gonna burn the hell out of it. Its been over a week now and things def mellowed out quite a bit, gone was the aggressive leading edge, midrange bloomed, and timber is pretty much right, bass is still pretty nice. I really enjoying using transporter for low-level listen cuz the bass seems endless going through the Ayre.
Tweaks that works with the transporter:
1. better power cable; the improvement was almost instant (I have the Violet Z1 on it)
2. Herbie tenter feet works to bring out the midrange a bit more, the bass is slightly less but since it was so abundant to begin with, no problem there.
3. power conditioning, very obvious different plugging directly to a dedicated circuit vs plugging to the UPC200 that's plugged in its dedicated circuit
4. probably the largest improvement - squeeze center 7.0 with FW33; who would have thought software upgrade yields the greatest improvement in listenabitily. With 6.5.x the sound is like your average $1k DAC, with squeeze center, the sound took on an analog-like character - yeah.. not far from C5Xe and Saturn (Saturn's bass is not as good as TP for the simple reason that Ayre simply works better with balanced)
random observation: TP does something special with the DV332, I prefer TP over Saturn going to the 332 with K701; I run 332 out of my Ayre tape out, I am thinking TP's balanced operation really lowers the noise floor; whatever the reason AKG and Grado now sounds excellent on the 332.
So the gist of it is - if you are still on 6.5.x time to upgrade!
<bigshot, sugarinthegourd, LawnGnome, Febs, OverlordXenu, Leporello, Riboge, fkclo, meat01>
will the above people please DO NOT post in this thread. THANK YOU FOR YOUR COOPERATION.