19-May-2016, 08:36
(19-May-2016, 00:45)dbilling64 Wrote:(18-May-2016, 22:23)f1eng Wrote: Well I have had mine for a while now. Overall I am very pleased with the sound, it reminds me of my first experience of the D-Premier 5 years ago only more so.
I am tending to use my Goldmund Epilogs more than the Tune Audio Animas with it, though I can't put my finger on why. AIR 3.0 is running without glitch on my iMac.
Earlier I compared the same files played using AIR 2.1.3 on my Macbook with AIR 3.0 on the iMac. There was not an obvious SQ difference but on extended listening perhaps again more of the same Devialet strengths.
That's really interesting - thanks. Do you have the same experience as Guillaume; that the sound has opened up over time?
My recollection of my experience of the D-Premier and the D800's is that they sounded pretty fantastic out of the box, and that the SQ didn't change/improve over the initial few hundred hours.
My OdA's have been playing music since they arrived home (48 hours ago). They sounds wonderful, and I could also convince myself that they are opening up, but it's also true I may be more open to sujestion than I fee comfortable admitting.
I haven't noticed an obvious change with time directly, but I was definitely enjoying the SQ more than usual yesterday evening, which happens to me from time to time. My old Goldmund system seemed to sound better after beeing powered up for days. I haven't noticed that with Devialet but I also haven't left it on for days. Maybe I should try.
Generally my engineering experience leads me to question any hifi tweakery for which there is no valid explanation.
Lets face it if there was a reason why various tweaks work, other than the placebo effect, there would be loads of valid explanations available from manufacturers and labs rather than hearsay and opinion on enthusiast forums.
It is interesting to look at these unvalidated theories.
There are some on here who believe the Devialet sounds better cooler, and others who believe it sounds better warmer.
There are those who consider switched mode power supplies to be audibly bad, and others who consider them better.
There are good reasons to believe that taking steps to reduce jitter should improve sound (though no consensus on the limit of audibility) but I have read two subjective reviews of a very expensive CD-player DAC with huge levels of jitter, way more that a cheap DAC, both reviewers loved the sound it generated.
So in the end I tend to audition things I admire the engineering of, and try things which seem to me to have a plausible chance of making a difference, though in reality even if something only works by a placebo effect the effect is still as real as a poorly person getting better after being prescribed sugar pills.
Devialet Original d'Atelier 44 Core, Job Pre/225, Goldmund PH2, Goldmund Reference/T3f /Ortofon A90, Goldmund Mimesis 36+ & Chord Blu, iMac/Air, Lynx Theta, Tune Audio Anima, Goldmund Epilog 1&2, REL Studio. Dialog, Silver Phantoms, Branch stands, copper cables (mainly).
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