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  1. Dear friends, el Corso, mr Roch Giustinianni had passed. R.I.P Roch. He was a truly audiophile and a very dear friend!
  2. Hola Chicos, I did a change in my system. I upgrade my preamp, now I have a Conrad Johnson ET-7 S2, and surely it is a big step forward of my previous preamp. Now it has over 800 hours or so and it is fully broken in. I had tried another configs suggested here and also took the nerve to find another config, and the truth is: I'm keeping my last one that Peter liked too. Yes, there are in some configs, a deeper bass (too much for me) and a brightness that makes too forward the percussion instruments. Others were too flat and lacked fun, like a potato without salt. Some might like a different config and you are entitle to it, it is your liking, your ears and a totally different audio system. I do respect your choice of config. This is in my system, and also my liking. With the Holo May Kte and the new preamp, the Lush ^3 really shines. I got a Venom Shunyata USB and the sound was OK. I had it for over two weeks, and when I changed back to my Lush^3, I got an astonishing magical sound back. I love the harmonic context and texture of the musical instruments. They are not over sized or lower sized. The voices are projected to the air with much realism. The coherence is fantastic. The transparency of my speakers is back again. No more over bright cymbals or too much bass energy. A super steady stage with a truly sense of 3D. I can choose in the stage any musical instrument or voice that I would like to listen to. The drummer is terrific with the right amount of energy (dynamics) on every stroke from the drummer sticks. The wood instruments like the bass clarinet is very impressive. The flugelhorn is top-notch with the timbre. The air through the sax and trombone is an experience to listen them. The strings are very silky having the right definition and the resolution. I must confess that this is the best sound that I ever had, I am this happy. My system is like a butterfly, a lot of process and metamorphosis had happened in my system since I got this Lush USB cable. Happy listening!
  3. What an incredible this Lush^V3 USB cable is. The changes on different systems are amazing. Using the Vadim1 config in my system, the upper midrange is a little bit harsh and lost the deepness of the bass musical notes. The bass is ok if I don't play bass with heavy musical notes. The stage shrink and lost the 3D that I have before. Very important, this is happening in my system and not necessary in yours. My recommendation is: use the configuration that is the best match for your system and ears. Your ears are the final judges, trust in them. I am using the HQplayer4 virtual CD player with an incredible resolution. My sound is transparent with the right coherence from bottom to top, with an outstanding definition and clarity. The stage is wide with the right amount of dynamics. Voices are projected to the air with an outstanding realism. The sax and metal musical instruments have air between them and you are able to hear the air passing through the trumpet, sax (specially sax), trombone etc. The strings instruments have their natural timbre with the right harmonic texture. The sense of 3D is impressive, I have the drummer and the cymbals together. I am very happy with my system...very happy!
  4. OK, now my new DAC, the Holo May Kte is bringing a detail that I never had before. This detail is granted by the configuration at the connector B: G/W/. The sound of the strings, specially the double bass and the cello is more life like. Also this config is showing a dynamics with much precision. I can sense the low frequency of the cymbals, and yes low frequency. Snap your nail at the border of a cymbal, Paiste, Zildjian or Sabian (to name a few most used brands) and there is a very low frequency while they are vibrating. If you have a chance to have a cymbal next to you, try it, you will be very surprised. The body of the musical instruments is now projected into my virtual stage with the right size and also with the right dynamics (almost). Try to get this DMP recording: "Quality Of Silence" by the drummer Steve Davis. On the second track, it opens with 3 or 4 big cymbals and he also use a big Hi-Hat with a 15" size cymbals due to the energy sound. My ears tell me that the possible brand of these cymbals are Sabian or Paiste. I found in Facebook this video where you can see Steve playing and also see the middle central location cymbal vibrating. The low frequency there is evident along with the vibration, not only high frequency. https://www.facebook.com/jazzconceptsbysteve/videos/1043732859390591 Here is another video where you can see Lenny Arriale trio where Steve plays. The sound effects by this drummer are fantastic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI31tMBxpp4&t=206s What amazed me is the timbre and the right energy on every stroke. You can hear when he is using the tip of the stick, or the middle or the bottom of it for certain musical cymbal effects. This is a very good recording for testing your audio system. The config at the connector B: Y/W the bass energy is too much for my system. I am getting more bass energy than the config B:G/W. The problem is that my ears tell me that the bass deep musical notes are oversized, and also it is overall less transparent. So, try for some time at the connector B:G/W. I do find the bass with the right size and the right bass resonances with great body and incredible brass instruments. The percussion is projected with a lot of space between the drums set, as a real live one. Also the best sound for classical music. I forget that I am listening to my system and the music immerse me into the place where the recording was made. Happy listening!
  5. Hola Chicos, This is my very personal opinion. What I do like not necessary must be your liking and also, what you liked, not necessary must be my liking. The configuration at the connector B: Y/G the bass is stronger, but in my system lacks the precision that I am wanting to get. Some musical bass notes are too big. My bass has never sounded that way. On the other hand, if you like that bass coloration or if in your system it is the best way to listen to the bass, it is OK. It is wonderful to have a product where we can config it to our needs and liking. I am just reporting that in the connector B: G/W, the bass in my system is more liking of how my bass sounds live. There are certain musical notes that have more natural resonances than others. Also the stronger bass notes had gone. In my system, this config has a naturalness that I never got. I am really enjoying those fine tunes...and the great musician(s) playing for me in the recordings. Happy listening!
  6. Robert, that happens when you get confused as I did. My dac is getting better and better. I am with you too. Connector B: W/G. Happy listening!
  7. I had it for over two months, and recently (two weeks) I just changed my DAC and it is changing its sound quality for good from one day to another. Three days ago, the unit (now I think that my ears really tricked me) was dull, then I went back to the previous config (B= Y W) which gave me a little brightness. The next day, with my ears very clear, I went back to this last config (B= G W). Try it, you might like it as I do. There is nothing to loose and perhaps a lot of detail and the right energy at the percussion...it is a very precise sound to my ears. The brightness is gone, and the cymbals are amazing. The stage is wide and the musical instruments and voices are great too. Deep bass is granted too. Happy listening¡
  8. When is right the SPL? When you find yourself tapping your foot along with the rhythm of the music, that level is right. When you have a steady stage, the SPL is right. This is a matter of liking. Also it is a matter of enjoying the musicians playing for you, there, in your own place. The other thing is, believe what your ears are telling you. Don't worry about what others are saying. If you like what you are hearing, that's what it is all about and of course it is OK. Trust your ears, they are your final judges. I don't care if you can fool my ears; that could happen...fooling ears is not my goal, what is the most important thing is: enjoy those fine tunes! Enjoy the fun that they are having playing for you! Enjoy that fun...music is love! Happy listening!
  9. Oh, I forgot to mention that I do not use a volume level compensator in my Audirvana virtual CD player. Between the files, there are sometimes a big difference in level. My pre amp volume control is very good. It goes by steps and each step going up or down is .7dB. So, you are able to adjust the exact level that you would like to listen any song or track. Happy listening!
  10. Hola Chicos, I would like to chime here a little bit. I will tell you my experience. Here in Costa Rica, we don't have big stages. The biggest is the Melico Salazar National Theatre were I listened our Symphonic Orchestra with a big Corus: The Ninth Symphony of Beethoven. At the stage were about 200 people and I was at the seventh rod center listening with my SPL meter weighting in C scale, and perhaps 10 meters away from the stage, the highest meter reading was 93dB!!! And I never have being exposed to that musical energy before! My body was literally shaking with this SPL. Recently we had Roger Waters here at our National Stadium. The level was a little bit more than what I usually listen to my system, but WOW!!! These guys really know how to adjust the level of the musical instruments and voices. And through all those big speakers, in surround, quality was there too. Crystal highs with incredible definition with what were on the stage. Fantastic. Then I decided to play my system loud...one of my friends said: Roberto, this almost the same as the National Stadium with Roger Waters. I only had it for 3 minutes and lowered the volume. I think that we (humans) have a built in sound compressor into our ears, and I could stand for a moment hight SLP, but this is not for me. I love my ears, and being exposed to a very high SPL, they start to whistle (tinnitus) and have it for two weeks...I don't like this. My liking not necessary must be your liking, but usually I am between 75dB to 85dB, peaks no further that 90dB! Average SLP in 75dB is more than enough for me. The stage, the musicians playing there with great realism with the fun that they are having playing together, with the right timbre and the right harmonic texture, air between them and having the main artist or performer in my virtual stage is all what I need. I can focus easily with any musician or musical instrument at the recording. My system is simple, it is a Conrad Johnson ET-7 preamplifier and a Classic One Twenty SE power amp, with Nordost Reference SPM interconnects and speaker cables. CD transport is a Bel canto CD3. With a Holo May Kte dac with a LUSH ^V3 USB cable, my Apple Mac Pro and my ears...that's all what I need to enjoy all these fantastic musicians that are into our music files. My speakers are Martin Logan CLXs with a BF-210 sub. Enjoy all those magical tunes! Happy listening!
  11. I don't know what happened. Yesterday I was complaining about the bass, and today I am amused. I went to bed very late, and woke up early in the morning. Being Friday, I took the day off, and spent all the time listening again this miracle. After listening over 12 hours, I have to report that the bass is fantastic. I am not using my sub. With the jazz group Four Play, everything is precise with the right deepness of the bass, with great detail...this USB cable is amazing. In the Album Silver, on the second track "Horace" the cymbals are project in a space where the drums are, right there, and the piano stage position is at the right front, having the bass center bottom. The guitar is located at the center and little bit to the right and all the musicians are truly having fun playing together. The dynamics are life like...I love this. Happy listening!
  12. That's OK Roch, your ears and your liking!...my dac is changing every day...so please do not take me as a good info. I did change to Green and White two months or so ago too. Different liking, does not means anything...just liking! Happy listening!
  13. Chicos, I wrote yesterday that I was going to use again Y/W in the B connector, but my ears tricked me. I am back again with G/W. The right amount of energy with the tip stick of the drummer player to the cymbals is superb, also the timbre of the strings are more precise...I am more involved with the musicians. What amused me is that I don't know what happened two days ago here in my system...today everything started to sound as it should, but was a little over bright, I definitively love Green and White only on the connector B. Right now I am listening Haydn: Concertos for Cello. Jean Guihen. This is a Harmonia Mundi recording. You can feel de direction of the bow and the attack to the strings...fantastic definition. The Absence Album by Melody Gardot, in track No 8 there is a clarinete along with a Hammond B3, the deep bass and how the bass player is plucking the strings is amazing. Great definition here too. Having a new device in the system and you are still not accustomed to it, makes you think that going back at your previous settings you might get back what you are missing...how wrong I was! Please excuse me again! Happy listening!
  14. Hola feelingears, The codes are the color of the cables. Connector A is from where the signal starts, B is where the signal through the cable ends. As an example, from the computer (A) to the DAC (B). The colours: R = Red W = White Y = Yellow B = Black G = Green If Peter says A= B is not connected means Black is not connected at the connector A. Happy listening!
  15. Thanks for your kind words Peter...my Holo May Kte is not broken inn yet...needs more time, so my appreciation might be wrong...but the Y/W on connector B brought the little brightness that I was missing. The R2R is different to the DS, and I can conclude that the R2R is more natural, more life like...the Holo with the G/W is kinda dull... I will be trying the config...once I have full broken inn my Holo...I am hearing more details and more musical info now that I am back to your recommendation. Yes I know the great involving and definition sound that I got with my Exasound DAC E-32. But I was very used to its sound, a reason why I went crazy with the G/W config. I am with you, highly recommended for those who are seeking the right timbre and ambiance into the recordings. This Holo May is totally different. I can sense where it is taking me, definitively another level of sound quality than my beloved Exasound, and I can say the holographic presentation that I am getting is something that my ears are not believing...I have a deepness of the musical instruments at the stage that I never had before...I can sense the bass notes much easier and the chords I can call the harmony better. It is amazing unit. But I am missing that definition that I got...time, that's what I need, break inn time. Voices and the musical instruments are projected in the air with much space between them and a big, hug, enormeous stage. I am always playing at the same SPL level...I don't play the music too loud. Enough to have the band in front of me. Usually 70 to 80dB of SPL (Weighting C scale) in my room. I don't need more. Peaks could get up to 85 to 90, but never more. My ears must get accustomed to this new sound. I beg for your forgiveness, I will report my findings later on. The Exasound was kinda bright, and with the G/W config gave to my ears the right amount of musical balance with the right energy, dynamics on the musical instruments. I am not getting that with the Holo, the good thing, I know that I will. I have to thank to you again for this marvellous Lush^V3...it is breath taking what it does to my sound quality! Happy listening!
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