Please don’t give up. Every problem will come with a solution. Try to change anything such as flipping left to right both input and speaker cable. Try it one by one. Then change the DAC/Pre-amp and so on. Even rebuild the speaker cable banana plug from the beginning. Just calm down.
you may also have to come to terms with the fact that the DBR62 may just be.. slow and lack dynamics. I’m a firm believer in the speaker and the room are the biggest influencers of the sound people hear. Changing amps to “save” or “fix” a speaker is something that fundamentally makes no sense to me. Speakers sound different from one another, there can be wild variations. Whereas amps should theoretically all sound identical, unless they are literally defective at their job of amplifying a signal in a linear way, or unless they don’t have the power to push the speakers to the listeners output requirements (clipping and distortion become serious concerns). If there were any differences between amps, they may only be very small, very minute, very subtle. Why spend so much money on such diminishing returns?
or it may be that what you perceive as slow and lacking dynamics is due to room interaction and resulting frequency response.
It’s true, but for most people serious room treatment is off the table, maybe a rug aside. Their room is as is, structurally, and aesthetically. In that case the only high-value-for-money fix is different speakers that hopefully interact and sum up with the room differently. You would need one with a solid return policy to trial them and determine what works best.
Sensitivity has nothing to do with dynamics. It is simply how much SPL you get for your power into the speaker.
Yep, or room treatment. But we already were there before.
From the dashboard we can see the gain is 26.4dB
The better sinad of the PA5 is almost certainly inaudible in real world listening conditions. There'll certainly be no "night and day" difference. If you want to test your own ability to detect distortion and what level you can hear try the klippel test:
Definitely - and you don't need an interface. The Umik has a usb interface already. Connect direct to computer.
Can help - but do measurements first and find a way to implement room correction.
Based on your description I think it may well be placebo. I'm not aware of any speaker characteristic that could cause that. But in any case, get the measurements and correction in place then see if they still sound "slow".
I’m not saying a better amp can’t help, and I’m not saying the PA5 wouldn’t be better, but I do think the difference would be minimal, and poor value for money given that I don’t believe your speakers are that hard to drive relative to many other speakers. If you mentally cannot handle not having the best, I have no problem with those who are self-aware of that and don’t push or propagate false self-soothing narratives to others that their life changed from such minute changes. It’s only one step removed from snake oil: this is a category of items that has verifiable measurable technical benefit but will inevitably be unlikely to notice perceptual benefits. If someone peddled fancy $1000 speaker wire that technically had measurable electrical benefits in its construction, nobody here would condone it and would call it out as snake oil. Where does one draw the line with things like Sinad? Sure, it’s not as big a rip off as $1000 speaker wire, but where is the same type of critical thinking as to whether one will actually hear audible differences between 5db Sinad discrepancies in a double-blind state? Why does ASR accept the latter, but probably ridicule the former?
Yup -- it's thermally coupled to the bottom of the case for cooling.
And you can see the space where it is between the two capacitors.
Yes, and yes.
I wonder why the V3 need a good DAC/pre-amp to shine.
