Doug:
It's funny you mention the cymbals, that is where I found the only thing that I would like to work on with the NeoDcc... In my case it sounds like I have made a wiring mistake and something is out of phase in a certain region that affects exactly cymbals and triangles - you can hear them but the decay is missing... :roll: Fantastic transparency everywhere else and it really makes me wonder why you and me have similar feelings about cymbals and Jon (the actual designer of the NeoDcc and Modula MT which have no such problem at all) is not detecting any problem with it, is this just capacitor/wriring choice?
Unfortunately I don't have any measuring equipment and I know how easy one can make mistakes trying to fine tune the speaker to his taste, playing with resistor values gave similar results to yours - brightness with no meaningful improvement in the required area.
I will admit a strange thing though, taking the risk you might accuse me of snake oil consumer, hoping this might give some food for thought. A friend of mine that is a follower of Bill Ying's theory that using "tuning cables" can make any speaker sound good (I have no idea what his actual theory is or where to read more) came to my house and after listening for a while asked me to give him some 48 cm of copper wire and he twisted it around the far end of each speaker cable, each turn approximately 1 cm from the other and all of a sudden the cymbals you were hoping for were there... 8O :roll: Now that was a surprise as I was expecting this to affect other areas but there was no side effect to this, at least for the hour I listened to it. I do not recommend that stuff to anyone, I do not plan to use it or even think about it as that is is unacceptable for me but I would like to suggest that this relatively microscopic inductor value allowed for improvement in the area of interest and I am still trying to find a way to explain it... Please keep me posted on your progress, will be much appreciated. I do feel that this is my last pair of speakers and I am really hoping to find a way to make it perfect.
Thanks again!
It's funny you mention the cymbals, that is where I found the only thing that I would like to work on with the NeoDcc... In my case it sounds like I have made a wiring mistake and something is out of phase in a certain region that affects exactly cymbals and triangles - you can hear them but the decay is missing... :roll: Fantastic transparency everywhere else and it really makes me wonder why you and me have similar feelings about cymbals and Jon (the actual designer of the NeoDcc and Modula MT which have no such problem at all) is not detecting any problem with it, is this just capacitor/wriring choice?
Unfortunately I don't have any measuring equipment and I know how easy one can make mistakes trying to fine tune the speaker to his taste, playing with resistor values gave similar results to yours - brightness with no meaningful improvement in the required area.
I will admit a strange thing though, taking the risk you might accuse me of snake oil consumer, hoping this might give some food for thought. A friend of mine that is a follower of Bill Ying's theory that using "tuning cables" can make any speaker sound good (I have no idea what his actual theory is or where to read more) came to my house and after listening for a while asked me to give him some 48 cm of copper wire and he twisted it around the far end of each speaker cable, each turn approximately 1 cm from the other and all of a sudden the cymbals you were hoping for were there... 8O :roll: Now that was a surprise as I was expecting this to affect other areas but there was no side effect to this, at least for the hour I listened to it. I do not recommend that stuff to anyone, I do not plan to use it or even think about it as that is is unacceptable for me but I would like to suggest that this relatively microscopic inductor value allowed for improvement in the area of interest and I am still trying to find a way to explain it... Please keep me posted on your progress, will be much appreciated. I do feel that this is my last pair of speakers and I am really hoping to find a way to make it perfect.
Thanks again!
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