another rec m1360 to him also yup, the SQ is nice at mid but bloomy at MAX. jz the bass a little flabby. but i still think it's better to go for something around RM200 if he can stretch the budget and plan for long term usage

affect is will affect, jz tat will u notice it? if the quality is another level thn it will be easy to notice, if not is quite hard.

nope, tat's wrong. cable n power conditioning are consider less affecting in SQ due to their expensive price. but, if u try like jump grade, thn cable do hav very significant affect. but i dont really recommend u to try cable for ur speaker. normally ppl will advise u to spend only 10% of ur budget on cable. try play cable after u get something like Audioengine A5+ or Swan X4.

actually not like tat, every sound devices also will hear differences with better cable. jz the problem is the raw material for better cable are expensive. like pure gold > pure silver > pure copper. but these cable, even the best 1 don't affect the whole system a lot. so ppl tend to budget with 10% only.

jz for example, a 10k cable really giv gud sound. even u try in ur 1k speaker system also can hear differences. but with 10k u buy a speaker and amplifier, the differences will be more significant. so will u buy 10k cable or 10k speaker and amp?

there is no best budget cable around, cause cable has few types of characteristic (such as cold, warm and etc) and u need to choose depend on ur taste. and sometimes, I will like to use cable to tone the sound. it's easy to jz swap the interconnect cable and hav a totally different sound type according to the taste u want. but for speaker cables, i recommend kimber kable or transparent audio. kimber kable has some bad look and lack those wrapping of other cable, but for the price against SQ, i think its easy to rec. transparent audio is for its factory terminated cable tat has the filter.

thn why dun u jz bang those guy tat selling copper, silver and gold? and cable tat sell for 10k is still quite accepted in the hifi world. cable tat go over 20k will be less accepted.

This post has been edited by Emiya Shirou: Jun 21 2013, 06:41 PM

better buy a DAC first, cause those cable tat i said cost at least RM300 above.

tat's y i said, try upgrade cable after u get a speaker like A5+ or X4

hmm, i read some where before but i don't remember where. it said tat gold conductor do has better sound thn silver. conductivity is not the only parameter tat affect sound quality. but i doubt we will see many gold conductor cable as those from china are aggressively stocking them up. whn i talk about gold, i do mean real gold. not like here, whn saying bout invest in gold, what we get is jz some bank book instead of real gold.

hmm, i also not sure wat ur problem is... anyway, wat DAC are u using? source is important as well. if the DAC is not up to the standard, getting more expensive amp + speaker also may not solve it.

hmm, more like speaker position n isolation problem to me

try borrow few eraser from ur friends and put them at the bottom of ur speaker and see

personally i prefer 2.0 for best SQ with the same budget.

let's talk bout speaker first, 2.0 vs 5.1.
-For listening to stereo music and other stuff, there wont be much diff except tat the 5.1 will hav stronger bass due to it's subwoofer and may sometimes make ur music listening become fatigue or not so enjoyable. But, some tat like bass cant survive without a subwoofer, so it depend on urself...
-For movies, u will need to downmix those surround audio to 2.0, so u will lost those surround effect like hearing the walking steps sound come from behind to front or the surround explosive sound and etc... Besides that, due to 2.0 lack of subwoofer, even u buy a floorstander, those explosive effect wont be as ground shaking and solid as a subwoofer.

let's talk bout amp.
-if u are going 2.0, mean tat u can choose between av receiver or stereo amp. for the same price, stereo amp will hav better SQ compare to av receiver.

let's talk bout positioning and isolation.
-i like 2.0 cause i only need to focus on positioning and isolation on jz 2 speakers XD only jz 2 speakers already took me a whole day meddling and testing around
-if 5.1, mean i need to focus on 6 speakers @@ i dunno how long will it take for the positioning alone... and subwoofer wif isolation do wield better result ^^

This post has been edited by Emiya Shirou: Jun 29 2013, 06:52 AM

jz my personal opinion, i think ud100 should be enuff for ur corsair speaker. if u really wanna upgrade try upgrade tat speaker first instead of DAC...

Actually, ya using a better DAC will make ur speaker sound better. But the improvement of DAC is less if compared to speaker if the same amount of money is spend ^^ But its up to personal opinion and taste XD

Anyway, its not jz DAC tat will improve ur sound. U also need to setup ur music player to kernel streaming, position ur speaker accordingly and most important speaker isolation U can go to my blog and listen to the track b4 and after i setup speaker isolation for my edifier C3 http://casualnfunentertainment.blogspot.co...-isolation.html

for the speaker isolation, it varies a lot so i am lazy to put the pic cause diff ppl hav diff method. but the basic is:

To make it short, speaker isolation is to isolate your speaker from touching unwanted surface. This is being done by putting some isolation product in between your speaker and the surface such as table or floor. It can be spikes, it can also be a block of wood or marble plates. Few types of isolation products can be setup together as long as it suit your listening taste

for the C3, due to budget limitation, i jz stick some spikes at the bottom and and jz put it on the table as usual. i also stick the spikes on my subwoofer as well and leave it on the floor. each of the spikes are around 2cm tall. if u hav more budget u can try put marble plate or other type of thing at the bottom and leave ur speaker with spike on it. u can refer to these pic in UD100 fb page for the look:

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=522...&size=640%2C480

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=515...&size=800%2C598

i am running win 7 and am able to use kernel streaming wif UD100. i personally prefer kernel streaming over ASIO, jz personal preferences XD
ya DS is direct sound

This post has been edited by Emiya Shirou: Jul 4 2013, 11:47 AM

try follow the steps at here:
http://casualnfunentertainment.blogspot.co...-streaming.html

i cant really help u too much... cause tat C3 setup is half year ago... after finished setting it up and satisfied wif it, i gave it to other ppl together wif the UD100 and not at my disposable now...

if u mean speaker, try edifier s730d. and the DAC i will choose hrt music streamer 2.

never test it b4... so i m not really sure XD anyway how is ur UD100? able to do kernel streaming already?

i actually compare ASIO, kernel streaming and WASAPI using foobar for my DAC b4, i personally like kernel streaming.
mayb is my DAC limitation cause i heard WASAPI is working better wif SPDIF but my DAC is using usb cable for the audio transfer.
anyway it's up to personal preferences which 1 u like XD

ya, i actually like kernel streaming over wasapi and asio due to it's clarity of vocal and gud dynamic expression. does the bass feel like less power? i feel like the bass is better control and like it more XD

anyway, if u r eager to try out, u can try jplay http://jplay.eu/download/
u can download the free trial version and test it out first.
the price is a little steep, but if u do plan to own better audio stuffs later on and play using PC, it's a gud upgrade.

This post has been edited by Emiya Shirou: Jul 4 2013, 05:22 PM