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Hmmm...you make allusion to equalizer?
Sorry, not gound for sound!
I go on:
Sstarless, i think you’re not familiar with the notion of musicality.
We could define this term by the ability to reproduce MUSIC (and not simply “sound”).
For example, you’ll find some amps which have lower distorsion rate than the Nad, but when you listen, you’ll much prefer the Nad cause it has the ability to let the music, the emotion flows, whereas the other will be cold or demonstrative for example.
All that to say that technical criterias means not much, the only way to tell if a device is musical or not is to listen to it.
For example, Mark Levinson which is an American brand which make the best preamplifiers of the planet, also do very expensive power amps. When you listen to it, there’s nothing to say on a pure technical level: it’s perfect. But it’s cold, which means it don’t let the emotion flows…
It doesn’t means that musical devices are not neutral.
A good device has to be both. That’s the case of Nad.
Of course, it has its limitations in bandwidth, dynamic, soundstage…
That’s obvious cause there’s always better and because it’s cheap.
But that’s extraordinary for the price, if you put that with musical cables and speakers….
You also need to do some more optimizations in order it work a minimum.
When you’ll have your devices:
-Check the power phase with an electric screwdriver (very simple), in order the device is plug in the good way. Better use wall plugs with ground.
-Better plug each device and a separate power plug (in your case, you only need two), avoid to plug it on a multiplug. Bad multiplug are very bad for sound.
-Use good power cables. Unfortunatly Nad Cd players don’t have power plug, but it’s easy to open and solder a good one instead of the crappy origin one, or to install a ECC plug (more difficult).
-Use vibrations canceller systems below your CD and amp. This result in an enhancement on all criterias: dynamic, soundstage, low, high, all you want.
It can be “Golden sound” ceramic cones for example.
-Put your CD and amp on a solid and stable support. Best put it directly on the floor, depending on the floor you have, but with vib canceller below.
-Check that your CD is perfectly horizontal with a plumb level in the two dimensions.
If not, compensate by putting hard pieces of wood below the cones for example, until it will be perfectly horizontal. Avoid soft matters in which vibrations stay.
You can also put something heavy on your cd player, like a thick piece of granit for example.
I will cancel vibrations, like the cones, cause Cd mechanic is very vulnerable to vibes.
-Bi wire! It brings a huge enhancement in term of dynamic, soundstage, low, high, etc…
If you do all that, you’ll have pleasure with your system, I swear!
Golden sound ceramic cones (vib cancellers to put below your devices)
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