yoster
New Head-Fier
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See that's the thing - Neutral sound is what I'm after. I was hoping this would even bring a warmth to it as some have said, but even comparing it to my own tube amps - it's not even in the same ballpark (again the headphone-out). Do we know which cap(caps) go only to the headphone section? I'm curious if perhaps one of the ones I purchased are bad.
And yeah I hear you on discrete parts. That's usually my mode, however since covid I've gone full-time WFH, which means using a headset a lot, which is a bit easier running to a single device than using a long pigtail - one end to headphone amp the other to mic-input. But it just might be what I have to do if I can't sort this out.
I received the Anthem audio metering/correction unit last night. Still playing around with it - and it was fun testing my Studio 530's and various amps with it, however sadly it doesn't work EXACTLY as I thought it would. I was under the impression that the sweep sound would be played from the software (the sound card). What it actually does is play the sweep directly from the PW-Link pre-amp. So it removes the source as a component, and thus only measures the amp and speakers (which I'm happy to report was flatter than I was expecting 'out of the box'.) I think I figured out a way to 'fool' it though. I'm going to remove the RCA outputs from the anthem unit, but tell the PC software to "run" - and then play my own sweep locally from the PC and see if it'll measure that. So it will still technically be 'sweeping' from the PW-Link pre-amp, but the actual audio-input will be coming from the PC. Hopefully it's not smart enough to realize that's what I'm doing
And yeah I hear you on discrete parts. That's usually my mode, however since covid I've gone full-time WFH, which means using a headset a lot, which is a bit easier running to a single device than using a long pigtail - one end to headphone amp the other to mic-input. But it just might be what I have to do if I can't sort this out.
I received the Anthem audio metering/correction unit last night. Still playing around with it - and it was fun testing my Studio 530's and various amps with it, however sadly it doesn't work EXACTLY as I thought it would. I was under the impression that the sweep sound would be played from the software (the sound card). What it actually does is play the sweep directly from the PW-Link pre-amp. So it removes the source as a component, and thus only measures the amp and speakers (which I'm happy to report was flatter than I was expecting 'out of the box'.) I think I figured out a way to 'fool' it though. I'm going to remove the RCA outputs from the anthem unit, but tell the PC software to "run" - and then play my own sweep locally from the PC and see if it'll measure that. So it will still technically be 'sweeping' from the PW-Link pre-amp, but the actual audio-input will be coming from the PC. Hopefully it's not smart enough to realize that's what I'm doing
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