wgb113
Super Member
So I sold the Dynaudios even though I thought the KEF were a little lighter in the bass. The imaging/soundstage and mids/highs were just that much better on the KEFs that it all made up for the difference in bass.
I sold my Benchmark DAC1 USB as a package deal with the Dyns and put the money towards a Benchmark DAC2 HGC. I thought it would be the perfect DAC/preamp combo since it offered analog inputs, digital throughput, and a remote. One of the changes that Benchmark made was with regards to the balanced output level adjustments. The most you could attenuate them was -20dB which in the end proved to not be enough. I couldn't get the volume much past 9:30 (the recommend 11:00 as the linear starting point) and using the unbalanced outputs to feed a sub was still too much of a mismatch in levels.
For S&G (rhymes with pits & jiggles) I pulled an 8" Dayton sub out of the bedroom system and it's given me hope for a 2.1 or 2.2 system, but I need a better way of integrating it (I don't want to use the speaker-level connections - I'd prefer to keep the path to the KEFs as simple and clean as possible.)
Bill
I sold my Benchmark DAC1 USB as a package deal with the Dyns and put the money towards a Benchmark DAC2 HGC. I thought it would be the perfect DAC/preamp combo since it offered analog inputs, digital throughput, and a remote. One of the changes that Benchmark made was with regards to the balanced output level adjustments. The most you could attenuate them was -20dB which in the end proved to not be enough. I couldn't get the volume much past 9:30 (the recommend 11:00 as the linear starting point) and using the unbalanced outputs to feed a sub was still too much of a mismatch in levels.
For S&G (rhymes with pits & jiggles) I pulled an 8" Dayton sub out of the bedroom system and it's given me hope for a 2.1 or 2.2 system, but I need a better way of integrating it (I don't want to use the speaker-level connections - I'd prefer to keep the path to the KEFs as simple and clean as possible.)
Bill