No, you feed Cyan 2 to your preamp/integrated, and then take itās subwoofer (or pre-out) to the subwoofer. And main speakers donāt go through the sub. You should never feed main channels through the subwoofer.
Then adjust subwoofer cross-over so that it matches natural roll-off of the mains. Iāve enhanced this by using foam plugs to the mains so they become sealed response. And then the sub cross-over is adjusted based on that. Mains donāt have any electronic high-pass cross-over at all, it is all acoustic.
Just donāt feed your main channels through the sub at all. You should never do that anyway. So the sub is set up in āLFEā configuration.
XLR to the pre/integrated, and then speakers from the main output and sub from the sub output or secondary pre-output.
Not at all strange. I consider it more strange to do what you are doing, higher electricity consumption to generate DSD512, for it to end up as PCM48kHz with crappy ADC filters (crappy in comparison to HQP).
Shouting āstudio gradeā doesnāt mean much - but since you did, my active KEF LS50 W2 have significantly better vertical dispersion performance than those 3 āstudio gradeā monitors you listedā¦ Not sure if you are aware but pretty important to have good dispersion in all directions when you are nearfieldā¦
and with great integration with subwoofer via Acourate DSP, all convolution managed by HQP at PCM96kHz =
DSD256 with my Holo Cyan2 with my headphones. It would be āstrangeā to feed that into my KEF analogue input
Just my opinion though, I donāt have any qualification / expertise (about anything)
Do you really think analogue cross over fed by HQP is better than DSP cross over fed with 96/24 from HQP?
For example all higher tier monitors from Genelec are now with DSP cross over, so they obviously think that the DSP cross over has an overall better sonic performance as an analogue cross over otherwise they would stick to analogue, right?
2 of the 3 monitors he listed have DSP crossovers already. So as I mentioned, the output of his DACs will need to be converted to digital PCM48/96kHz with leaky A to D filters, then D to A with leaky filters again. But he knows best, since he uses the term āstudio gradeā
At least feeding them at the PCM rate the DSP operates at will have a high quality filter for the most audible regionā¦
Only the Mackie has analogue active XO, so good to feed it from his DSD DAC.
My reply was not with respect to his monitors but a remark in general as your posts sounds a bit as in genral analogue cross over + HQP is better than DSP cross over.
As I noted in my last post, it depends on what is inside the speakerā¦ you cannot generalise and thatās exactly why I split out the Mackie from the other 2 monitors he mentioned.
Well they are going to tell you their filters are great
So youāre going to uninstall HQPlayer immediately ?
Not sure what the point of contacting them is. Since you paid for HQPlayer filters one would assume you care about high quality filters
Going from high quality filters through crap ADC and out of crap DAC - seems to undo HQPās high quality filters that you paid for? Do you really need to ask JBL if that is true? Assuming they even know what HQP is?
Are you expecting JBL to agree a KEF LS50 W2 has better vertical directivity?