which version of HQPlayer are you using? there was a bug in 5.7 that caused excessive RAM usage

The stark contrast between Viva internals and their reported sound intrigues me a lot

I've not heard Caldera so I do not dare to speculate on that. When I had only the RME unit the Susvara was my favorite over my Stealth, HEDDphone and HD800, it's not like it only became good after I upgraded my chain. Honestly I have the opposite, on the RME I much preferred Susvara but now on...

Amirm tested Susvara with AHB2 through the HE adapter and John Siau the AHB2 designer came into the thread and said it was regrettable that he used the adapter as it can only degrade the sound when used with the AHB2 so I'm mostly basing my opinion on that.

Probably, but I'd advise against the HE-adapter and just drive it from the speaker taps directly. If I were to use a speaker amp with the Sus I'd pick the AHB2 every time with it's amazing fault detection and protection. Don't want to roll the dice on that and get a fried Susvara.

Same here I can't believe I barely listen to Susvara anymore, Stealth is just that good. The HM1 (as you surely know!) shows that unbeatable tonality, resolution and texture but combines it with incredible body and slam!:k701smile:

I honestly disagree that Susvara is only worth it if you combine it with a 10k amp. I was supremely happy running it out of my RME ADI-2 Pro balanced (3W/channel) and just to make sure my memory was not deceiving me I plugged it back in just now. I can confirm yet again, the RME sounds fantastic...

yes and yes

Ok thanks, i'll trust the limited counter and not the output level meter then!

I'm afraid I haven't been able to reproduce the issue. Started up HQP again with the exact same settings exact same track and the metering of the 20khz filter worked just fine. Unfortunately logging was not turned on so wasn't able to check that one :frowning2: While i'm making bug reports...

I'll see if I can reproduce it

Interesting discovery: I was listening to a 96khz piano recording and if I engaged the 20khz filter the client showed it filtering from 10khz not 20: See here a screenshot of me turning the filter on, then off, then on again. I'm curious whether this is intended behaviour, anyone with ideas?

Not to me! Give the Stealth a Susvara-chain and it's a toe-tapper too in my experience. Gets 80% of my listening time :)

I've undervolted both my gpu and cpu and while they do draw a combined 120 watt at DSD512 with light 512+fs the whole pc is whisper quiet (gpu temperature 32 degrees cpu temperature 55 degrees). If you don't chase super 512+fs @1024 and you undervolt and watercool you can have an extremely...

Could be that the pads need some breaking in? Especially if you don't use the clamp force screws I imagine the fit of fresh pads will be different than worn pads that have shaped themselves after your head. On a pad sidenote: I improperly applied mine and now the right pads have become loose...

You ask some difficult to answer questions so you get a long slightly off-topic answer haha. I have not done a blind test but I am not sure I would pass it. I very quickly get switching fatigue and everything sounds the same. The brain quickly adapts to a given standard so I feel like the most...

Sonically it is amazing and the tone + stereo base controls make it a great and unique preamp, but I really value being able to set the preamp gain in decibels as it allows for volume consistency and level matching. I've resorted to using HQPlayer digital volume control with the HM1 preamp...

No preamp? 😲that sounds like a feature, the one annoying thing about the HM1 is it doesn't have a power-amp mode and the volume pot is always in the signal path

Maybe I should clarify since you seem to have misunderstood, before the PSM156 the HM1 had more punch and was more natural but the HPA4 had better staging and cleaner treble so while I preferred the HM1 I didn't prefer it 7k more, the gap was pretty small. Now after I feel the punch and...

So this week I received my Puritan PSM156, and while I'm confident that it made the gap between the HM1 and my HPA4 widen considerably there was also another interesting side effect. Before I had everything plugged into a generic power strip and there would be a quite audible pop when shutting...

Totally agree on gauss-short! I have a small hunch you will end up with poly-sinc-gauss-xla for classical/instrumental ;)

Just the standard one. My only grounded socket is 8 meters away so it's plugged in an extension chord anyway.. if i ever move to a house with grounded sockets everywhere I'll probably try the ultimate cable!

It arrived today and plugged everything in. It's too early to say anything about bass, energy, separation or details but there's one thing that sprung out immediately. I keep hearing about people hearing power conditioners and noticing more "relaxation" in their music, or even they felt like the...

Ok thanks for the reply! That is good to hear as I only have a single grounded socket in my house so connecting everything to the psm156 is by far the most practical solution :)

Hi all, I'm a soon to be owner of a PSM156 I figured it was worth posting a question here. I've heard the PSM156 is extremely good at eliminating mains noise but much less so at eliminating noise generated by devices connected to it. I was thus wondering if it is recommended to connect...