Good thoughts. Thanks.
Just curious about one more thing which I don't think you've commented on in your review. To your knowledge, does the DSPeaker alter time and phase coherence? While the Harbeths have exemplary frequency domain coherence, time and phase don't seem to be priorities, since...
That makes a lot of sense. By the way, as I read through your set up, you are listening in a near field, so, presumably, the room effect is smaller than it might otherwise be, and the DSPeaker is primarily working on the Harbeth 40.2 frequency response. Have you had experience or contacts with...
Hi Tom,
I'm curious about Pasi's response to your inquiry on 24/96 output of the DSPeaker. If that's the limitation of the unit, what is the advantage of the better signal capabilities of the Auralic G2 and the Benchmark DAC3? Seems like something is being lost in the middle of the signal...
Putting aside the engineering choices made between a commercial DAC and an FPGA, as well as PCM vs DSD, the Directstream sounds better than the X4 as a DAC, and has the advantage of being continuously upgradeable. I could follow your approach and place the X4 between the Aries and the...
Hello Tom, I just came across your excellent posts. As it happens, I also use Aries G2 and Dspeaker X4 and Harbeth speakers, in my case 40.1's. I have combined the Harbeth's with 4 Swarm subwoofers. My DAC is the PS Audio Directstream. So, I go Aries into Directstream into Dspeaker (via analog...