08-20-2019, 10:43 PM
Step one: Find out what it relates to. Go back to a completely stock installation of moOde 6.x.
Leave the EQ off.
Don't do any of the "it sounds better and I have no measurements to support that claim" tweaks or setting changes.
Put a revealing, well-recorded track on a local USB stick. Use an uncompressed format like FLAC or ALAC.
Play it. Does it have audible problems?
If there are audible problems:
1. Swap headphones, speakers, etc. to see if the problem tracks the transducers.
2. Try another DAC. Doesn't have to be a great one -- whatever USB DAC you have lying around (Audioquest Dragonfly, Objective DAC, Eiio, Topping, M-Audio, etc.). See if that improves things.
If it sounds good, then start changing things.
Turn on the EQ. Does that degrade the sound? (I'm with grasshopper -- I never use EQ and have no tone controls in my audio system).
Point moOde to wherever you normally keep your music (NAS, external hard drive, network share, etc.). Play the same track from there.
etc., etc., etc.
Leave the EQ off.
Don't do any of the "it sounds better and I have no measurements to support that claim" tweaks or setting changes.
Put a revealing, well-recorded track on a local USB stick. Use an uncompressed format like FLAC or ALAC.
Play it. Does it have audible problems?
If there are audible problems:
1. Swap headphones, speakers, etc. to see if the problem tracks the transducers.
2. Try another DAC. Doesn't have to be a great one -- whatever USB DAC you have lying around (Audioquest Dragonfly, Objective DAC, Eiio, Topping, M-Audio, etc.). See if that improves things.
If it sounds good, then start changing things.
Turn on the EQ. Does that degrade the sound? (I'm with grasshopper -- I never use EQ and have no tone controls in my audio system).
Point moOde to wherever you normally keep your music (NAS, external hard drive, network share, etc.). Play the same track from there.
etc., etc., etc.
Cheers,
Miss Sissy Princess
Miss Sissy Princess
