Smidge
Member
Hi all,
After reading a lot of interesting content here on ASR for the past few days, I felt it was about time to sign up. And as a means of introduction and at the same time making use of your experience, I have the following situation I'd like to hear your take on.
Images tell more than words, so let me start by sharing a basic visualisation of my current audio setup:
In general I'm quite happy with the audio experience. However, I'm always looking for things to improve. After doing some basic improvements with regards to listening position, speaker placement, and room acoustics, I'm not completely happy with the low frequencies produced by the speakers. Somewhere between 40 and 80 Hz (estimation) they get boomy. Of course this could be caused by many factors including room acoustics, but my hypothesis is that this is at least partly caused by the limitations of this speaker in the low end. And that's why I am considering to run an experiment to validate this:
I want to connect the DAC output to an additional pre amplifier, and connect the rca outs to the SVS sub. The sub has a build in 80Hz fixed high pass filter on its line outputs that I want to send to the Roksan bypass input (going straight into the power amp bypassing the pre-amp). That way the speakers will only handle 80Hz and above. And I will adjust the SVS's low pass filter to 80Hz so that the sub handles all audio from 80Hz and below.
Based on my understanding I can only test this with an additional pre amp because with the Roksan I cannot achieve this configuration - it's either integrated or power amp only.
Based on this I have a couple of questions I am hoping you could help me with:
• Do you think this experiment is worthwhile trying? And why?
• Using the subs high-pass filter does means the audio source travels to additional components and cables. How much of a concern is this?
• How important is my choice for a specific pre amp, in terms of impact on sound? Would a simple volume control option on a DAC suffice (for example the Topping d30 Pro)?
• Do you think this can potentially improve the issue I described above?
• What other things would you consider if you were in this situation?
Looking forward to your guidance.
After reading a lot of interesting content here on ASR for the past few days, I felt it was about time to sign up. And as a means of introduction and at the same time making use of your experience, I have the following situation I'd like to hear your take on.
Images tell more than words, so let me start by sharing a basic visualisation of my current audio setup:
In general I'm quite happy with the audio experience. However, I'm always looking for things to improve. After doing some basic improvements with regards to listening position, speaker placement, and room acoustics, I'm not completely happy with the low frequencies produced by the speakers. Somewhere between 40 and 80 Hz (estimation) they get boomy. Of course this could be caused by many factors including room acoustics, but my hypothesis is that this is at least partly caused by the limitations of this speaker in the low end. And that's why I am considering to run an experiment to validate this:
I want to connect the DAC output to an additional pre amplifier, and connect the rca outs to the SVS sub. The sub has a build in 80Hz fixed high pass filter on its line outputs that I want to send to the Roksan bypass input (going straight into the power amp bypassing the pre-amp). That way the speakers will only handle 80Hz and above. And I will adjust the SVS's low pass filter to 80Hz so that the sub handles all audio from 80Hz and below.
Based on my understanding I can only test this with an additional pre amp because with the Roksan I cannot achieve this configuration - it's either integrated or power amp only.
Based on this I have a couple of questions I am hoping you could help me with:
• Do you think this experiment is worthwhile trying? And why?
• Using the subs high-pass filter does means the audio source travels to additional components and cables. How much of a concern is this?
• How important is my choice for a specific pre amp, in terms of impact on sound? Would a simple volume control option on a DAC suffice (for example the Topping d30 Pro)?
• Do you think this can potentially improve the issue I described above?
• What other things would you consider if you were in this situation?
Looking forward to your guidance.