Hello, I just joined, primarily for the audiophile products. Looking at purchasing the NHT C3 speakers for our new living room. Space is about 15 feet wide by 33 long and they will fire long ways. Space is just for general listening, music room with all equipment is downstairs, so hoping they will fill it with sound nicely. Cheers.
Mar 18, 2024
I don't know what the Grindmis, but I'm surprised, because the AKG Q701 is quite bassy, and yours should be the same thing
2) Do you have Lossless files? If you will use foobar2000, try to set Playback->Output->Device as WASAPI (event) -> Your DAC name Play it and try to feel if there is any difference. Important: While playing trough foobar2000 in WASAPI (event) mode your E5 will not be able to be used by any other software.
3) If you think it's not good yet, go to https://www.hdtracks.com/ and choose some random tracks you had never listened to.
4) If you are not satisfied yet, close the foobar and turn on Direct Mode on SBX Pro Studio under Speaker/Headphones tab and retry steps 2 and 3.
If after that you are still not satisfied so you have a problem and will have to trade something. I recommend you to try the E5 paired with a Fidelio X2/27 before you think the AMP/DAC is the problem.
Good luck