Okay .... I'm back to square one.
I set the replay gain to disabled, and dont hear any improvement in sound. What makes me even more mad is that my $50 discman seems to sound better.
I mean ... come on!!
There must be something i'm doing wrong. The legions of SB devotees can't be all wrong.
I thought EAC isn't doing a good job of ripping CDs, so i moved to CD-DA Extractor to rip into WAV files. Still no improvement. The WAV and FLAC version sound
exactly the same. So i can take the ripping part out of this whole equation. Either there is some setting on SB3 that i'm missing or thats just the way SB3 sounds.
Putting in >$500 mods in a $300 device is ...
Don't get me wrong, guys... i love the functionality of SB3... it makes listening to music so much more simpler, but am i wrong in expecting it to sound atleast
better than my disc man?? The music sounds kinda flat ... 2 dimensional. The sparkle is just not there.
After initially trying with Onix SP-3, i hooked it up to Teac ALP700 directly. Now this amp is what i call a tremendous bargain! Its downrite criminal, in my mind, that
Teac and others aren't making more of these. (On a seperate track - Are there any higher powered tripath based integrateds out there?)
Speakers are GR Research AV/3 again ...
Is there anyone in the DFW area who own SB3 and are perfectly happy with it? I'd love to come on over and check out what i'm doing wrong, or they are most welcome
to come over to my place and check out what is it that i'm missing. And can someone who has ripped FLAC files and think it sounds just like their CDs please send me
just one such file? I own all of dire straits CDs ... so any FLAC file of theirs would be great.