If there is something that requires a special meticulousness and that is fundamental for all regardless of the equipment that each one has, it is the correct placement of the speakers. Personally I have always acted starting from a more or less intuitive first position and then modifying this position with small changes and using the ear. We all probably know different methods and recommendations such as the ones from Cardas* and others. Following the latest versions of XXHE, especially from v. 2.08, I have found much difficulty in finding a placement that I like. What I would like to know is if someone, including naturally Peter who commented something about it, has any idea that helps in this regard. Have some of you found the need to move the speakers to get a satisfactory sound with v.2.08 or v.2,09? In such a case, what have you done to get a correct placement?

Juan

*http://www.cardas.com/room_setup_main.php

Thanks Nick, that sounds great. When I compare both versions I'll post here the results

Juan

Hi Mani, thanks, I was just asking to know if you had noticed any improvement in SQ compared to 2.08d. I still have to play a bit with the speakers placement to be totally satisfied. I'll try it again in a couple of days when I get back home and install 2.09

Juan

Hi Mani, were you upgrading from 2.08d?

Regards,
Juan

I forgot one more thing. In some cases it seems like if I'd need to rise up the volume one or two steps to get the same presence as before. Could it be also one of the reasons that pushed me to move the speakers.

Juan

Hi Peter, thank you for your offer of help in positioning the speakers. Any advice is welcome. If I am totally honest, I can not assure that I already have found the perfect position for the speakers. Maybe, it could still be better ...

To place the speakers I use a Bosch Laser Measure and placed them to the millimeter. I also placed on a side wall a diffuser panel that I wasn´t used before in this room, I placed it just at the first reflection point at the height of the tweeter. My current room is complicated because it is quite small but still previously it had been easier for me to get a satisfactory sound. Anyway, as I said, so far it has been worth the effort. The good thing about G3 is that you not only perceive its virtues, but also that you can intuit that it has more qualities hidden. It is a challenge, but rewarding.

Juan

Hi,
the first reaction I had when installing the G3 for the first time was strangeness. I did not quite understand the new sound. I didn´t know if that sounded better or worse than before. On the one hand it was evident that more details were perceived but on the other hand the sound in general appeared as unconcrete, I do not know how to say it, it was as if everything was out of place, the bass appeared also somewhat blurred. For all this, something pushed me to move the speakers looking for a new placement to see if I could recognize the previous sound. Something was telling me that the new sound had qualities that I was not finding. It has taken me at least three weeks, though with some days of pause in the middle, repositioning the speakers until I felt satisfied, and surprised at the same time, with the new sound. Actually I can not add anything other than what others have already said, this sound is simply different from what I've heard so far. It is clear that there are more details and that the placement in the sound scene of so much new detail gives us the sensation, as already has been said, that the cds heard before now seem different. In short, a reproduction of the sound to be accustomed but that is again spectacular. Much more detail but without aggressiveness, a bass that is as voluminous as before but less dry, perhaps more real. I don´t know if others, like me, will be pushed to look for a new speakers placement but, in any case, once I found the correct setting what I can say is that this is the best dac I've ever had, including the previous versions of NOS1. Thank you Peter!

Juan

Very little can I add to what others have already said about the qualities of the Lush. However, I want to leave my opinion here to encourage others to consider this cable as an important upgrade, I'd even dare say as an essential upgrade.
After more than one week of burning the cable and playing around with some XXHE parameters I've finally found a sound that please me as never before. What I can say is that the sound is much richer than with Clarissa. The bass now has a body that was not present before and it gives a perception of the sound that approaches to what we could imagine as that same sound in a live event.
As others have said, at the beginning, it may seem that the presentation is darker but soon it is perceived as it has not only the same details, perhaps even more, but also that those details are part of a whole body much better integrated.
Maybe two words could define for me this cable, two words that goes together: Body and musicality.
Go ahead, get this cable as soon as possible. It's cheap for what it offers.

Regards,
Juan

That Lush looks nice against the blue sky 

Juan

Sorry, I didn't get it right.

Regards,
Juan

Peter, has v2.08 already been released, or is it just that Paul is testing it?

Juan

Great post Mani, there are always skeptic-pessimists who choose the negative side before trying the real thing. Nevertheless, the most interesting part of the post is the one related to the strange brain of Peter. I always suspected that in that head there was something rare, maybe Lush connections instead of the usual neurons 

Kind regards,
Juan

By the way, any ideas on how to make the power plug firmer? Peter, is your power plug tight? Maybe it's just the one I have.

Juan

Peter,  great! From time to time the impossible becomes possible  . Yes please, when you receive my dac for the upgrade change the USB inputs.

Best regards,
Juan

Thanks Peter, according to a popular Spanish saying "if it can not be it can not be and it is also impossible", I guess it loses the sense of humor when translating it to English.
Well, in other words, if it's not possible to fix it, no problem, I can live with the connectors I have.

Kind regards,
Juan