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In the Thread: TU-X1 setup
Post Subject: TU-X1 setupPosted by drdna on: 9/6/2008
I have just today received the Sansui TU-X1 and set it up in my system. It is very unusual sounding compared to other tuners I have heard.
It is very detailed and has excellent tonal balance. It is accurate, but in a softly natural way, and it seems to have a natural way of unfolding the sounds which is at once soporific and envigorating.
Now, the interesting things is the way it presents the sounds, like small alien shapes. I can best explain this thus: the presence expands and contracts with the sound, as if speaking or playing into the microphone at the time of the recording made a waveform that was reproduced, like a three dimensional object that exists only so long as there is light to shine on it. Take away the light and it collapses to nothingness. It lacks the reality of a singer or musician whose presence or motivations you can sense even in a dimly lit room.
Does this make sense? Well, I am really just wondering if this is normal or perhaps there is something about the tuner that needs to be adjusted. Records and CDs are playing normally, BTW.
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