Shortly after aquiring my DAC, I decided to try playing computer based music via my laptop off through the dac to see if it would improve the headphone to rca I've used, mainly at braais, up to then. Obviously not even an ext DAC could save that horrible source material. I then pulled in some advice and got Foobar, downloaded some FLAC files (to try this thing) set up the USB connection and off we went. To say I was not over the moon is probably correct. I then got a couple of tracks in FLAC of a test disc (also on the net) to check if it was just the tracks I downloaded. No. Especially the higher freq was dead and muffled. So I wrote it off as either my system not being up to it or my laptop screwing it up.
Tonight boredom struckand I decided to give the puter another chance. Still crappy. Messing around I came across the equalizer. I pushed up the buttons from 1.5kHz and beyond and gave Chesky another chance.
Well! Now we're talking! I can now hear at least some of the things I'm 'meant' to hear.
My questions:
1) Is this evil?
2) If its wrong, why does it feel so right?
3) I hear people complain about something in their system, why not fix it with an equalizer?? If your brand x amp doesn't have the mid range you want, which you're willing to pay for in brand y, why not equalize that in??
4) Why does my downloaded FLAC files sound the way they do? Is it the USB connection? Its not that info is lost because I can equalize in what I was missing.
Tonight boredom struckand I decided to give the puter another chance. Still crappy. Messing around I came across the equalizer. I pushed up the buttons from 1.5kHz and beyond and gave Chesky another chance.
Well! Now we're talking! I can now hear at least some of the things I'm 'meant' to hear.
My questions:
1) Is this evil?
2) If its wrong, why does it feel so right?
3) I hear people complain about something in their system, why not fix it with an equalizer?? If your brand x amp doesn't have the mid range you want, which you're willing to pay for in brand y, why not equalize that in??
4) Why does my downloaded FLAC files sound the way they do? Is it the USB connection? Its not that info is lost because I can equalize in what I was missing.
