13-Apr-2016, 14:02
Coming up to 300 hour mark, bit of an update for y'all.
First of all there has been an improvement in the sound. For a while it felt like I was coasting on a plateau. The effect I was looking for was a palpable texture in the sound, a solidity to the sound, something you can almost reach out and grab in the air in front of you. The sound had been very open and the trebles sweet for a while but this tonal colour/texture was missing. I almost think of it as a 3D effect of tonal textures (not talking about soundstage but rather like a relief map with shading showing you elevations and depressions if that makes sense!). In this regard I am noticing some fairly big improvements. Do I think it's as good as Jon's machine? No but it's much closer than it was just a few days ago, which is encouraging.
The other thing that I have noticed is that the the temperatures are running cooler. And quite a bit cooler! We are now in the low to mid 30s (with 24/7 playback), even really turning the music up to say -16 (which is very loud!) and leaving it on for over an hour and I am barely touching 40, with most numbers comfortably under. This is with DPM switched off by the way! On my 800 I would have expected high 40s, even creeping into the 50s. I reckon the average temperatures have dropped by 10c.
One slightly annoying thing: I have noticed that my remote scratches incredibly easily! No idea how but I already appear to have a number of little hairline scratches and one or two slight buff marks. Perhaps I used the wrong cloth or something. Anyway I'm not going to worry about it! This remote is for using!
Guillaume
First of all there has been an improvement in the sound. For a while it felt like I was coasting on a plateau. The effect I was looking for was a palpable texture in the sound, a solidity to the sound, something you can almost reach out and grab in the air in front of you. The sound had been very open and the trebles sweet for a while but this tonal colour/texture was missing. I almost think of it as a 3D effect of tonal textures (not talking about soundstage but rather like a relief map with shading showing you elevations and depressions if that makes sense!). In this regard I am noticing some fairly big improvements. Do I think it's as good as Jon's machine? No but it's much closer than it was just a few days ago, which is encouraging.
The other thing that I have noticed is that the the temperatures are running cooler. And quite a bit cooler! We are now in the low to mid 30s (with 24/7 playback), even really turning the music up to say -16 (which is very loud!) and leaving it on for over an hour and I am barely touching 40, with most numbers comfortably under. This is with DPM switched off by the way! On my 800 I would have expected high 40s, even creeping into the 50s. I reckon the average temperatures have dropped by 10c.
One slightly annoying thing: I have noticed that my remote scratches incredibly easily! No idea how but I already appear to have a number of little hairline scratches and one or two slight buff marks. Perhaps I used the wrong cloth or something. Anyway I'm not going to worry about it! This remote is for using!
Guillaume
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