Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Stereo Bass reduction when sitting down

I say you should reward yourself with a projector and 100" screen. Big bass needs a big screen.

I actualy have the room for that..Thanks for putting that idea in my head !!!

But I need some nice HT Seating first, and an external DAC, and more acoustic panels.. you see where this is going LOL.

Steph

Stick around here long enough and we will put lots of ideas in your head, but you already know that!

OK, I am gonna ask, why do you need an external DAC?

That's what we're here for.

Because of the way I listen to my music. All of my music is on my Network Attached Storage in FLAC, WAV and some MP3 but few of that format. Mostly all FLAC. These files are then streamed via my Sonos devices to various places in the house. The Sonos device that is connected to my main system in the basement sends the digital signal to my Anthem AVM20 pre-amp who does the DAC function. After some testing, and much to my dismay, the DAC in my $300 pioneer BD Player sounds better than the DAC in my $5K Anthem (AKM DACs)!. Since I don't listen to music on CDs via my BD player, I am going to purchase an external DAC that is better than both, and put it between my Sonos device and my Anthem, which will then receive the analog signal and just pass it along to the amps / speakers. I'm looking seriously at the Benchmark DAC-1

Are you sorry you asked now ?

LOL

Actually no, as many of us found out last weekend at the Axiom plant, the price of audio gear is not always related to the quality of sound that it produces.

Very suprised that at your Anthem doesn't stack up to your Poineer. I would have never guessed. I am sorry you had to find out the hard way.

I would not have been surprised if the sound was indistinguishable. DACs are a commodity product these days. At OEM quantities, the difference between a standard and 'high end' DAC is mere dollars.

It was not night and day, but it was like ... Damn..my entire music collection on disk drive, of which I have over 600GB worth of, does not sound as good as the latest CD that I ripped to disk when played on by Blue Ray player.


Mind you, back when I first got the Anthem, it's AKM dacs were far superior to my older Yamaha carousel cd player.
Things change so fast in electronics / computers etc.. it's crazy !

Yeah Stephane, putting either the speakers or your ears very close to the wall behind them increases the bass. From your measurements, it appears that the back of the speakers were already only about 13" from the wall, but since there're no rear ports, have you tried putting them just an inch from the wall to see if that similarly increases the bass, but with a closer sitting position?

As to a separate DAC, it's unclear how anyone can "hear" how one sounds independent of everything else. An audibly significant difference due to that alone is highly unlikely these days.

I say you just get use to sitting down and don't even bring standing up into the equation; that's what I've done .