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Don’t think you’re right about that. The SNR spec is in dBA and unweighted at 80khz for both. In basically all cases the numbers are dead on with each other. On distortion, the spec sheet is starkly in favor of the v2, and I made a typo in my original post which I’ll fix now. MM distortion...

I do use balance out, and I use a digital preamp, the miniDSP SHD, so once in the digital environment I tailor the gain to match my other inputs (then use one “preset” for digital and one with a bit of gain bump for the turntable — effectively behaving like a clean 40db of gain out of the Zen)...

Oh wow. Interesting choices here. Independent impedance and loading is great, but as an AT MM user, the 47k ohm and 110pf of the Zen is where I want it anyway. For MC users being able to fix the somewhat odd default loading values would be nice. Spec sheet is showing the older Zen (hereby named...

That’s what I’ve landed on as well. But earlier in this thread there was some talk of using “MC High” 48db gain on similar cartridges, and the person I was replying to is using a 4mV cart with the same setting. I wanted a little more oomph than 36db but it’s fine and 48db is clearly too much.

Wish I felt the same way. With AT VM540ML, which is rated at the same 4mV as your Olympia, I get some clipping. I don’t know if it’s the Zen itself clipping, or the Zen output being fine and it’s the preamp inputs clipping, but 48db of gain is just too much. Would have loved a 40db gain setting...

Arbitrary and in the eye of the beholder. I’m a bigger fan of KEF than Mofi but it would be much easier for me to get the 888 in the door past my wife than something like the R7 and its garish rose gold alongside walnut (I was really hoping that color scheme would be updated for the Meta line)...

We have to take your word for it about the paltry number of reviews spiked by manufacturers, but at the end of the day it’s a policy that does nothing but protect companies and hurt the user base. It’s your site, run it how you wish, and this thread isn’t about that (but you offered up the...

This idea of using chunkier surrounds is definitely going to take off if Dirac ART delivers on its promise. In theory, there’s hardly any use of even setting up ART if you don’t have some way to create the necessary waves all around the room, and that isn’t going to happen with tiny little...

Right. There were several documented cases of SHDs producing full-blast white noise at random, and at least one user posted pictures of their Dynaudio driver blown apart. miniDSP tried to identify and fix the problem but they couldn’t so they reversed course with 1.1.14. They say they’ll come...

:rolleyes: In the most polite way possible, this isn’t that kind of forum. Poke around and read some pinned threads and tutorials and a lot more measurement reviews and decide if you’re on board. If so, great! If not, no big deal. There are no shortage of forums and review sites for subjective...

Those are hardly new features, though. You could do those things, it’s just a bit easier now. New features would be something like being able to rename presets or inputs on the front display (miniDSP already said this is impossible for them to do, which is a surprising limitation), or having a...

Can’t answer anything about using Quboz because I’m not a subscriber, but any WiiM device (Mini, Pro, Pro Plus) can does bit-perfect 24/192 over optical.

People have been asking them about DLBC for years. You’re wasting your time. They won’t even tell us if it’s even in the realm of possibility that DLBC can be implemented on SHD, much less whether they’re working on it or it’s on the roadmap. Complaining about Volumio features is another dead...

The best reason is that as of now, Device Console provides no new functionality. The only change you will notice is you lose control over your OLED. You will not be able to leave it always-on, you will not be able to set it to dimmed mode and set the level of dim, and you will not control the...

I don’t think you can get everything in one box, no. The SHD is admittedly a powerful device with high quality measurements, it’s just that miniDSP is stubborn and neglectful. I’ve mentioned this before, but the #1 thing you can do to improve your SHD experience is to forget that it even...

I don’t think you fully understand the pace at which things move in the world of miniDSP. Tidal Connect was announced and available on many devices two years before it came out for the SHD series. In that time, it was available on standalone Volumio sixteen months before they managed to port...

Makes sense. More than adding total surface area and amplification to the system, which isn’t nothing, the flexibility of having two KC62s to address uneven bass in such a room will be a huge value. Even if the subs are a little mismatched (or at least a wash) in terms of total output, two KC62s...

Interesting to go through this review side by side with the M23. There are clear improvements in the design of the M23, but not to a great extent, and not in terms of power (C298 measures a hair higher at the knee in each case, actually). @amirm I don’t suppose there’s still a chance to get the...

This revived conversation is appreciated. However, I was hoping to hear more on what else plugging ports does beyond affecting the bass response slope. I have REW and can measure that just fine and overall I‘d say I have good integration to my single sub. What I was wondering about was stuff I...

…only when viewing the names within the Device Console on your desktop. I think a bunch of us got excited about this feature when it was first described, thinking the purpose of each present could be obvious to anyone from the couch, then it was described more fully and it’s like, ohhhh, great...