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toshiba 3950

71.214.221.242

Posted by JB on November 27, 2006 at 08:41:52

In Reply to: Toshiba 3990 pauses between tracks? posted by TomLarson on November 24, 2006 at 20:23:45:

I tried one of these critters about 2 yrs ago when the craze was at full tilt . The bass sounded weak and the high end was... ? Last week for giggles I put it back in as a transport only feeding a NOS - Dac . Since I last tried this thing the bass in my system has improved immensely (mye stands,crossover mods , wings ,E-Foreplay preamp ,etc). The bass on the toshiba was still weaker than the AH Tjoeb 99 that I use as a transport and I think I finally heard what I don't like about the high middle range . THere is a very narrow band of frequencys that seem to be just mia . When the singers hit this narrow band it sounds kinda bad , I like everything else about the sound of the 3950 but those two items . I only slightly miss the extra bass slam , but once identified , the discontinuousness ( is that a word ?) of the high middles sticks out like a sore thumb and become verrrrry fatiguing , especially since the rest of that range is so smooooothe. I believe Todd Kreiger said he believed this was caused by the ASRC circuitry used by this dvd player and several others .

My qustion is , have they fixed this problem in the the 3990 , or are the high middles still weird ?

Joe

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