Jump to content

ColtMrFire

  • Posts

    53
  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Country

    United States

Retained

  • Member Title
    Freshman Member
  1. Yes I have. I'm starting to suspect that I am instead hearing subpar recordings being revealed by the extreme clarity of the tweak, rather than any kind of "break in" trauma. Meaning, the tweak seems to remove so much coloration and interference, that you begin to hear just how well or badly something has been mastered... there were some recordings I listened to that started to sound dreadful, when I previously thought they sounded great... and great recordings took another leap forward. At least, this is my suspicion... I have not heard any other complaints about break in, so I think it's a safe assumption. This of course is something that started to happen when I upgraded my gear to better components, but I'd never experienced it such an extreme degree.
  2. I tried Barry Diament's tire innertube/ball bearing isolation tweak on all my components, and while it vastly improved my sound setup (CD player - Schiit Modi multibit - Schiit Valhalla 2 - Beyerdynamic T90, all fed into a power conditioner), the sound seemed to regress and grow worse not long after... I kept tweaking things, getting more and more frustrated, trying to recapture the awesome improvement I initially heard... I'd read somewhere that audio tweaks need time to settle and the sound can change for the worse while things are "settling" until it reaches peak break in... is this what's going on? Does anyone who's done these kinds of tweaks have any experiences of this sort? Thanks.
  3. Some are even saying its better than Ragnarok (including Marv over at SBAF, who has been listening to it for a few years), becoming Schiit's TOTL amp. For $399. Insane.
  4. You mostly referred to your setup but skirted the line between subjective taste and objective claims, at one point mentioning placebo. Its one thing to say you dont hear any improvement, its another to graft that very subjective and limited opinion onto the devices themselves. The Regen and Wyrd make some pretty obvious improvements in people's systems, so they work very well.
  5. You have to realize everyone is going to get different results because not everyone has the same chain. We both have the Bifrost 4490 but I doubt we are using the same audio program/USB cable/amp/headphones/power supply. Not to mention everyone's ear canals are different. All of these affect the signal and the Regen does not operate in a vacuum. Hence, writing something off based on your very specific setup doesn't make much sense. Of course you are free to write it off of your setup, but claiming it doesn't make an improvement based on extremely limited and biased data isn't something people should do. I have tested the Regen in my system back and forth and the differences were striking. I am not imagining those differences.
  6. Does anyone know if Windows 10 v1511 offers an upgrade in SQ over just plain Windows 10?
  7. Been using the ifi iPower with the Regen... An improvement over the supplied mean well for sure
  8. In my case, the jitterbug was very good at fooling me into believing there was an improvement, and there was, sort of... the music became much more "physical", meaning singers and instruments seemed to "fill out" and become more "dimensional/rounded"... in reality it was kind of false, because it was stripping musical information from the audio and really kind of making the soundstage a bit claustrophobic and cluttered... that is not an improvement to me... it's a trade off. It wasn't until I removed them, that this all became startlingly clear. I tried all manner of configurations with the JB and the result was always the same. My system sounded better without it. Less perceived depth and dimensionality, yes, but the JB were adding a kind of "false" depth and "dimensionality", so it wasn't real to me. This is just my own personal experience with my particular chain, so I'm not writing off the JB's objectively, YMMV and all that. The Regen is the real deal... I took it away after a few days of using it to see what difference it made, and the music sounded limp, sluggish, inauthentic and shallow without it...and I have the very good Bifrost 4490 DAC from Schiit, which is nearly as good as the multibit version, an excellent DAC, so you realize just how good the Regen is, if by taking it away, that DAC starts to sound "bad" (I mean in comparison to the Regen's addition) .. I can't imagine getting a new DAC without the Regen at this point. I've hear people say it even improves the world class Gungnir and Yggdrasil DACs which are further up the Schiit line.
  9. The ifi ipower has the following adapters: 5.5×2.1mm input/5.5×2.5mm output (‘C’ black) 5.5×2.1mm input/4.8×1.7mm output (‘F’ black) 5.5×2.1mm input/4.0×1.7mm output (‘G’ black) 5.5×2.1mm input/3.5×1.35mm output (‘H’ black) 5.5×2.1mm right-angled extension cable. 5.5×2.1mm input/5.5×2.5mm output; Reverse Polarity Plug (‘C’ white) Would any of these fit the Regen?
  10. Has anyone had experience replacing the Regen's power supply with the ifi iPower unit? Any impressions of the differences? I am thinking of making the switch and was wondering if it was worth the $50?
  11. Does anyone know how to open the regen? I seem to have the right tool (hex L-shaped tool), but it wont work.
  12. In an experimental mood I just replaced the hard adapter for the regenn with a PYST usb cable (this is in addition to my LH Labs 1G usb cable from the computer to regen) and woah, sound quality jumped a noticeable amount.
  13. Just tried taping over the 5v. Actually seemed to sound slightly worse so I removed it.
×
×
  • Create New...