[JoeTho]

How do you mean? You got a better set-up for the HE6SE?

Yes sir. The Master 19 will drive the HE6SE to play loud, but it will not drive them to peak performance in other areas. I have a DIY setup of my own. A Denfrips Ares II, old-school r2r step ladder DAC. A Vintage Monster receiver from the 1970 Stereo wars. It's a 65 pound, dual mono power supply Transformer Amp from Sanyo (JCX 2900K), which comes in at 140 watts per channel x 2, 8Ω. I call it my Giant Japanese Kaiju. My wife calls it a dinosaur. I run the Hifiman HE adapter right to the speaker taps. This is the best I've heard, period.

 

[Tano]

Yes sir. The Master 19 will drive the HE6SE to play loud, but it will not drive them to peak performance in other areas. I have a DIY setup of my own. A Denfrips Ares II, old-school r2r step ladder DAC. A Vintage Monster receiver from the 1970 Stereo wars. It's a 65 pound, dual mono power supply Transformer Amp from Sanyo (JCX 2900K), which comes in at 140 watts per channel x 2, 8Ω. I call it my Giant Japanese Kaiju. My wife calls it a dinosaur. I run the Hifiman HE adapter right to the speaker taps. This is the best I've heard, period.

Not enough power. You need a fully working nuclear power plant to drive those

 

[JoeTho]

Not enough power. You need a fully working nuclear power plant to drive those

Pretty much! And let me tell you, I have the Monster receiver plugged into a Furman power conditioner. And early in the morning when I power it on, I notice the light flickers in my office, and on the front of the power conditioner, if I was receiving 115 volts, it drops to 114 volts just from powering her up.

 

[JoeTho]

Question for some of the RME experts. When adding treble by way of the treble knob, which frequency is being increased? Is there a way to tell? For instance, on my Vintage receiver, when I increase the treble, I can choose to increase 2.5khz, 5khz, or 10khz. Those are my only 3 choices.

 

[gahan]

You can modify frequency, Q, etc low shelf and high self on I/O menu and then Bass/Treble.

 

[Matias]

Read the f. manual as they say hehe.

 

[JoeTho]

You can modify frequency, Q, etc low shelf and high self on I/O menu and then Bass/Treble.

Thank you kindly. Basically, I can select any frequency I want to change by increasing and decreasing bass and treble. This is awesome!

 

[Another Audiophile]

You can modify frequency, Q, etc low shelf and high self on I/O menu and then Bass/Treble.

I don't think you can select a low/high self for the B/T. Is just a specific frequency with a variable Q. Am I wrong on that?

 

[gahan]

I don't think you can select a low/high self for the B/T. Is just a specific frequency with a variable Q. Am I wrong on that?

Yes, you are wrong

 

[Another Audiophile]

Yes, you are wrong

Why? Where is the option to select a self? To me its looks like boosting a specific frequency with a variable Q. Will check the response. Maybe you are right

 

[gahan]

Sorry, you are right. B/T only boost specific frequency. Low and high shelf are in the EQ only. My apologies.

 

[NOMOS]

These are the possibilities of Bass and Treble controllers .

Audiophile Greetings , NOMOS

 

[Another Audiophile]

These are the possibilities of Bass and Treble controllers .

Audiophile Greetings , NOMOS

It’s all Greek to me.

 

[NOMOS]

It’s all Greek to me.

Really ?
Here in English :
Bass Gain

Current Bass amplification for the current channels as set by encoder 1 (B). Adjustable between -6 dB and +6 dB in steps of 0.5 dB.

Bass Freq

Corner frequency of the shelf bass filter. Adjustable from 20 Hz to 150 Hz in steps of 1 Hz. De- fault: 85 Hz.

Bass Q

The quality factor of the filter is adjustable from 0.5 to 1.5. Default 0.9.

Treble Gain

Current Treble amplification for the current channels as set by encoder 2 (T). Adjustable between -6 dB and +6 dB in steps of 0.5 dB.

Treble Freq

Corner frequency of the shelf treble filter. Adjustable from 3 kHz to 10 kHz in steps of 100 Hz. Default: 6.5 kHz.

Treble Q

The quality factor of the filter is adjustable from 0.5 to 1.5. Default 0.7.

If you have any further uncertainties, you can read this through

https://www.rme-audio.de/downloads/adi2dac_e.pdf

 

[Slaphead]

The quality factor of the filter is adjustable from 0.5 to 1.5. Default 0.9.

The quality factor of the filter is adjustable from 0.5 to 1.5. Default 0.7.

First off @NOMOS this is not aimed at you at all, this is about Q and how I dislike why it's named "Quality". I'm just quoting your posts as you give a perfect example of how Q can be misunderstood.

I know Q means "Quality", but it's probably the worst descriptive moniker ever in audio, especially for EQ

Q basically means how wide the boost or reduction will be over the neighbouring frequencies. A small Q will only affect a small number of frequencies on either side of the frequency where the EQ was applied, and a large Q will affect more frequencies on either side.

While it can be argued that the more aggressive the filter is (small Q) the more the sound quality is reduced due to the nature of digital filtering (though these days it's a very small reduction), calling it "Quality" really doesn't help those who are new to EQ in terms of understanding what this setting actually does, especially as EQ is generally badly understood by many an audiophile.