Three days with the Solo

The Solo keeps maturing nicely...

I haven't been able to listen to music for the past 2 days, as I have been very ill with the flu.

Now I am listening to Einstuerzende Neubauten ("Silence is sexy"), and I feel that bass has  VASTLY improved again. Now it's absolutely perfect for my taste.


What I have also noticed, is that I am placing the volume pot at a lower position than before: on the first days I often went to 11-12. Now I am rarely going beyond the 10 o' clock position to get a satisfying sound pressure...




Edited by Lucabeer - 10 Feb 2009 at 1:41pm

Well good to read you are so happy w/ the Solo SRG. One day I will have one.

Good news and bad news! If you are talking about the D2000 and D5000 the pads are not covered in leather but in pleader (euphemism for plastic to make it sound expensive ). But in reality they are very comfortable.

Thank you for your patience.

Like a guided misile the electronics of any high performance audio circuit corrects its course on its way to its target of fulfilling sound.

Unfortunately, try as I do, it is impossible to make any high performer sound as good on day one as it will on day n.

Also, a lot will depend on how it travelled to its destination, Cargo holds in aircraft simply don't have the creature comforts provided for a human cargo. Temperatures can dip well below what we consider comfortable and electronics having a thermal characteristic can mean what lands in one country can initially sound a lot different to the other guy's in another country.

Burn-in is something which takes place at different rates for different components. A transformer is considered burnt-in by world certification agencies at 72 hours, whereas metal-film resistors can take as much as 6 months to fully burn-in. The metal-film resistor establishes the resolution in a circuit that uses them (like ours do) and that lack of initial resolution can favour one set of frequencies above another. It is the bass that often suffers this aclimatization. It is therefore quite possible for the circuit to "cycle" a number of times over say a three week period which seems common and is usually the point at which it is very difficult to discern any further adjustment, although, I assure you, it is still taking place.