Originally posted by Asx:
I made a post few days ago about 990 being too harsh to my tastes with my Paradigm 100s. I was comparing the sound in Stereo (990s DACs) and Bypass (Wolfson WM8740 DACs of my Cambridge Azur CD player) and the sound is distinctively different - 990 is much brighter sounding when the Azur is more smooth and laid back.
Wait a sec...let's back up.
Maybe you skipped over something but here's what I'm reading.
You are connecting your Azur via analog cables (otherwise you wouldn't be using the Azur DAC's).
Now from what you typed you are switching between internal DAC's (Outlaw) and external DAC's (Azur) by simply pressing the stereo button and alternating between stereo and bypass? Is that correct?
If so, you just made a huge mistake as that's not what's happening. If that's what you did then you never heard the Outlaw DAC's and any sound you did not like was in fact coming from the Azur.
Stereo mode routes the signal through the Outlaw's DSP.
Bypass bypasses the DSP and turns the video signal off.
I really hope this is not what you did. If it is, the sound you liked the best was coming from....the 990 because of it's excellent bypass mode which passes on a pure signal.
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