Post by Owen Y on Dec 6, 2018 10:49:58 GMT 12
I've always been reticent about using heavy mass as a tweak & about encouraging it.
For analogue audio, my experience is that mass-loading, whilst it can 'tighten up' sound, the other side of that coin is that it tends to 'absorb' some fine detail, some delicacy, some 'air'. So, I use mass sparingly only here & there - eg. my equipment/TT stand legs are lead-shot filled only 1/4 to 1/3, just enough to damp steel ringing & to keeps the C of G low.
However, for digital (where signal is ones or zeroes, voltage or no voltage, vs analogue signal with it's tone & sub-harmonics, mass as a means of stabilising a device, can be beneficial....
You may have spotted in DARKO's video report on the US$99 SCHIIT Modi 3 DAC, that he had placed metal cylindrical 'blocks' on to of the Modi - presumably to stop long IC cables draging it off the bench-top. But, as DARKO explains, they worked also as a sonic tweak.
For analogue audio, my experience is that mass-loading, whilst it can 'tighten up' sound, the other side of that coin is that it tends to 'absorb' some fine detail, some delicacy, some 'air'. So, I use mass sparingly only here & there - eg. my equipment/TT stand legs are lead-shot filled only 1/4 to 1/3, just enough to damp steel ringing & to keeps the C of G low.
However, for digital (where signal is ones or zeroes, voltage or no voltage, vs analogue signal with it's tone & sub-harmonics, mass as a means of stabilising a device, can be beneficial....
You may have spotted in DARKO's video report on the US$99 SCHIIT Modi 3 DAC, that he had placed metal cylindrical 'blocks' on to of the Modi - presumably to stop long IC cables draging it off the bench-top. But, as DARKO explains, they worked also as a sonic tweak.
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