Is DEQX a game changer?


Just read a bit and it sure sounds interesting. Does it sound like the best way to upgrade speakers?
ptss
Hi Guys, I have read several post, but not near all, this may have been addressed. I have no doubt that the DEQX could be a game changer, but it would require Biamping, triamping etc.
The biggest problem in any speaker is the crossover. Coils suck the life out of music. If you are willing to remove your speakers crossovers, run an amp channel on each driver, properly set up the electronic crossover, then adjust time delay and eq to your room, there is no doubt that any of us will have performance that we have only dreamed about.... assuming that the DEQX is clean and does not mess up the sound of the other electronics in the system. Unfortunately for me, this is a product out of my reach... I have found a substitute that I will be trying shortly, it is called Mini-DSP... I have purchased it. It comes in 2 to I believe up to 10 Channels... I have gutted my speakers crossovers, but have decided to do some cabinet work so it will be some time before I get it all up and running... I can't imagine the Mini DSP doing anywhere near the job of the DEQX, but it does have full electronic crossovers, full eq capabilities and full room correction software with a calibrated mic available. I'm excited to give it a try and very curious to see if anyone else has tried this inexpensive product?
Thanks, Tim
Has anyone tried putting a High Fidelity Cable Ultimate Reference Rhodium power cord on their DEQX? I'm just curious as to the effect that putting a game changing power cord on a game changing piece of electronic gear may sound like.
Could be that two 180's = 360 and put you right back where you started???

Cheers,
John
Andrew (Drewan77), awesome! Thanks!
11-19-14: Timlub
Hi Guys, I have read several post, but not near all, this may have been addressed. I have no doubt that the DEQX could be a game changer, but it would require Biamping, triamping etc.
Tim, my hope and expectation, based on the inputs from several DEQX users in this thread, and on Kal's review, and on the comments on time coherence by Bombaywalla and others in this thread and the recent "sloped baffle" thread, is that that is not the case. My Daedalus Ulysses speakers are not even biwirable or biampable, having just a single pair of terminals. Designer Lou Hinkley doesn't want users doing those things, and in the process risking introducing compromises to what he has worked hard to achieve. I simply hope and expect that the sophisticated time alignment and room correction features of the DEQX, and possibly a little bit of additional equalization here and there, will enhance the already good sound I am getting from them to a significant degree. As well as perhaps also providing an upgrade to my preamp, and maybe even to the DAC and analog sections of my CDP.

As Kal said in the conclusion of his review:
It made my very good speakers undeniably better, smoother and cleaner, and endowed them with a bigger soundstage. It mad dense complicated music easier to resolve, and all music more of a joy to hear.
Best of luck with the Mini-DSP, btw. I am not familiar with it.

BTW, I'll add to my previous comments about the system configuration in which I intend to use the DEQX that I do not envision adding subs in the foreseeable future. A majority of Ulysses owners do not use them with subs, although Lou offers what is apparently quite a good (and somewhat expensive) passive sub that is designed to mate with them. But the Ulysses are rated down to 28 Hz +/-2 db, which is good enough for me. And that rating seems consistent with evaluations I have performed using test tones, as well as listening to well recorded organ music, etc.

John, LOL! :-) I wonder what the "three amigos" would have to say about that. (To the others, that's an inside joke; don't ask). Come to think of it, though, I don't want to know :-)

Best regards,
-- Al
11-19-14: Almarg
John, LOL! :-) I wonder what the "three amigos" would have to say about that. (To the others, that's an inside joke; don't ask). Come to think of it, though, I don't want to know :-)

I'm glad someone got it Al, I knew I could count on you. ;^)

I just have to laugh at the 2014 marketing phrase of the year: Game Changer.
It seems like everything out there these days is a game changer.....sigh.

Cheers,
John