Good morning.
Having bought my Wilson WP7's back from Batteredhaggis last year (shout out to Jamie he is a top guy :^ ) I have been enjoying my system immensely, especially during the last few weeks.
My cd player has both xlr and rca outputs, the xlr are louder as the output level is higher but if you match the gain (as best i can by adjusting the gain on my preamp) so the rca output is the same loudness (to my ears) my question ......is the xlr output more dynamic or should the rca output be exactly the same dynamically. I've experimented doing this as the rca is a valve output - details from the manual here....
The balanced output is 'true balanced' with 4 x PCM1704K DAC Chips (two per channel).
2 x 6922 tubes are also utilised for the RCA outputs, allowing the listener to choose either full solid state (XLR) or valve (RCA) output to suit their tastes
I've been experimenting and sometimes I feel they are the same but then on other occasions I definitely think the xlr output is more dynamic. Is that my ears playing tricks on me(or possibly I haven't matched the gain properly!) as I've always used the xlr outputs in the past or should they dynamically be the same if levels are matched? Just curious to get some comments on this? Its been fun experimenting I enjoy listening to both but not sure which output I prefer now !!!
Having bought my Wilson WP7's back from Batteredhaggis last year (shout out to Jamie he is a top guy :^ ) I have been enjoying my system immensely, especially during the last few weeks.
My cd player has both xlr and rca outputs, the xlr are louder as the output level is higher but if you match the gain (as best i can by adjusting the gain on my preamp) so the rca output is the same loudness (to my ears) my question ......is the xlr output more dynamic or should the rca output be exactly the same dynamically. I've experimented doing this as the rca is a valve output - details from the manual here....
The balanced output is 'true balanced' with 4 x PCM1704K DAC Chips (two per channel).
2 x 6922 tubes are also utilised for the RCA outputs, allowing the listener to choose either full solid state (XLR) or valve (RCA) output to suit their tastes
I've been experimenting and sometimes I feel they are the same but then on other occasions I definitely think the xlr output is more dynamic. Is that my ears playing tricks on me(or possibly I haven't matched the gain properly!) as I've always used the xlr outputs in the past or should they dynamically be the same if levels are matched? Just curious to get some comments on this? Its been fun experimenting I enjoy listening to both but not sure which output I prefer now !!!