Hello Dr.Tone.
I am experimenting with serveral speakers at the moment and from what I have learned I can not imagine to purchase any speaker which is not SAM listed. If everything else in your chain is already really good, the SAM adjustment provides the extra kick. Not only the bass is deeper and tighter but throughout the whole freqeuence spectrum there is much more information, more emotions!
But the result depends very much on the quality of the source. The better our custom made source gets the more we have a benefit of SAM.
Before I have owned a WA Sasha 1 and the speaker seemed to be simply to big and too much american for my european massively build listening room. I dialed SAM mostly down to only 0-10%.
Nowadays with much less jitter from our source I may have dialed SAM even for the Sasha much higher.
I have a B&W 803 D3 on loan which directly replaced the Sasha. First I adjusted SAM to only 5% again but since we improved the source further more (again less jitter) I have dialed SAM up to 100%. And now the result is really breathtaking. Enormously deep bass, very controlled and with a lot of colour.
If I switch SAM of, the magic is gone immediatelty.
In Dubio Pro Audio
Jan
I am experimenting with serveral speakers at the moment and from what I have learned I can not imagine to purchase any speaker which is not SAM listed. If everything else in your chain is already really good, the SAM adjustment provides the extra kick. Not only the bass is deeper and tighter but throughout the whole freqeuence spectrum there is much more information, more emotions!
But the result depends very much on the quality of the source. The better our custom made source gets the more we have a benefit of SAM.
Before I have owned a WA Sasha 1 and the speaker seemed to be simply to big and too much american for my european massively build listening room. I dialed SAM mostly down to only 0-10%.
Nowadays with much less jitter from our source I may have dialed SAM even for the Sasha much higher.
I have a B&W 803 D3 on loan which directly replaced the Sasha. First I adjusted SAM to only 5% again but since we improved the source further more (again less jitter) I have dialed SAM up to 100%. And now the result is really breathtaking. Enormously deep bass, very controlled and with a lot of colour.
If I switch SAM of, the magic is gone immediatelty.
In Dubio Pro Audio
Jan
