Hi everyone... looking for help.
I have a ROON ROCK NUC as Nucleus alternative feeding my DEV Expert 400 all networked via Ethernet.
The NUC is fanless.
Speakers are Dali Epicon 8 and the speaker cable is Artisan Silver (extremely revealing) I use SAM, currently at 100%
The room is 4.8 meters by 8 meters. Listening position is around 3 meters from the speakers and they are .75 meters from the rear wall.
The amps are plugged into an Isotek Sigmas.
Cables are all CAT6. Unshielded.
NBN (Australias high speed broadband) box to combined Modem/Route (powered by iFi) then to NetGear GS105 switch (powered by iFi X) and from there to the NUC and Devialet. I have a Acoustic Revive Ethernet Filter thingy plugged into the back of the Devialet master.
The thing is it sounds hard or brittle and flat. I am not enjoying music at all.
Soundstage depth is non existant. Very occasionally i can hear some kind of minor distortion in high frequencies.
This seems to be on specific recording.
One of my go do albums to check performance is a WAV rip of Evita.
On my system the opening scene in the theatre just sound lifeless with no atmosphere.
I remember hearing it played through a pretty basic CD player and a modest set up sounding so much fuller and atmospheric.
Is there an obvious problem in the way it ius set up ?
Is there an obvious deficiency in the very simple equipment chain ?
Or is this just the state of streaming audio.....
Help me enjoy the music again please.
I have a ROON ROCK NUC as Nucleus alternative feeding my DEV Expert 400 all networked via Ethernet.
The NUC is fanless.
Speakers are Dali Epicon 8 and the speaker cable is Artisan Silver (extremely revealing) I use SAM, currently at 100%
The room is 4.8 meters by 8 meters. Listening position is around 3 meters from the speakers and they are .75 meters from the rear wall.
The amps are plugged into an Isotek Sigmas.
Cables are all CAT6. Unshielded.
NBN (Australias high speed broadband) box to combined Modem/Route (powered by iFi) then to NetGear GS105 switch (powered by iFi X) and from there to the NUC and Devialet. I have a Acoustic Revive Ethernet Filter thingy plugged into the back of the Devialet master.
The thing is it sounds hard or brittle and flat. I am not enjoying music at all.
Soundstage depth is non existant. Very occasionally i can hear some kind of minor distortion in high frequencies.
This seems to be on specific recording.
One of my go do albums to check performance is a WAV rip of Evita.
On my system the opening scene in the theatre just sound lifeless with no atmosphere.
I remember hearing it played through a pretty basic CD player and a modest set up sounding so much fuller and atmospheric.
Is there an obvious problem in the way it ius set up ?
Is there an obvious deficiency in the very simple equipment chain ?
Or is this just the state of streaming audio.....
Help me enjoy the music again please.
