As you say ML, we can't influence the real source in the studio etc. so let's ignore that.Music Lover wrote:
And inside the system, the first equipment is either DS (analogue out) or Exakt DSM - both going to have impact of the musicality.
That is very easy to demonstrate.
It might be easy to demonstrate that the KEDSM does sound better than an AEDSM, and I agree that it does, so yes, that part of the source does make a very small difference. But you can't call a DS a source and an AEDSM a source as they do different things. There needs to be consistency - either the DS is a source (and therefore the EDSM plus the Exaktbox is the source because it also has an analogue output), or you need to compare the EDSM to the bit in the DS just before the DAC, which is not possible. So how to determine that the bit inside the DS before the DAC is better than an EDSM? It can't be done.
Exakt only applies the phase improvements by knowing the electrical characteristics of the drivers in their enclosure. I don't think designing can be done without knowing these first. Without the electrical measurement, I don't think Exakt will know what to do with the output signal.Music Lover wrote:
Got a question in a PM...
To be clear, I have registered for the DYI version of Exact filters on Linn home page. Now waiting on their feedback. I hope I can use Konfig in my PC to build the 3677/4645 filter. And this without measuring the speaker elements first, as I like to start designing the X-over points first.