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RE: Did anyone else read the BSG QOL review in TAS?

I heard this demoed in s system last week.

There are a couple issues we noted:

1) when comparing using QOL in bypass mode with it engaged, the QOL is about ~2db louder engaged than with bypass making comparisons different.

2) The bypass mode is anything but transparent. You might like the QOL engaged when compared to the bypass mode but I (and others) preferred it completely out of the system since the bypass mode almost sounds like it uses a hi-pass filter.

3) the sound with QOL engaged did sound fuller and soundstage width increased. Conversely, center imaging almost disappeared. The guy demoing the QOL said that he had to toe-in his speakers a bit to compensate for the change in center imaging.

We only spent about 20 minutes playing around with it. IMHO, it does change the sound and in some ways (soundstage width, mid range fullness) it sounded better but in other ways it did not.


We had it hooked up to a scope and could see that it was changing phase from the bypass mode.

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