Hello, I just joined, primarily for the audiophile products. Looking at purchasing the NHT C3 speakers for our new living room. Space is about 15 feet wide by 33 long and they will fire long ways. Space is just for general listening, music room with all equipment is downstairs, so hoping they will fill it with sound nicely. Cheers.
Mar 18, 2024
I was a bit of a nOOb when it came to audio equipment when I purchased the m9xx and did not realize that it only had unbalanced outputs /sadface
Any help or advise would be appreciated.
Once you have the HS-8's properly positioned, the imaging and soundstage are amazing. I prefer the F4 filter setting on the m9xx when using the HS-8 monitors.
What I can add is that I use the m9xx volume knob in its normal manner and have zero issues with noise or sound quality. I set the HS-8 monitor volume to the intermediate detent. This gives me excellent volume control and incremental adjustment and allows headphone volume to be approximately the same.
I use an iPhone 6s as my music source. If I use USB input into the m9xx (using Apple's CCK Lightning cable), the signal from the iPhone is a fixed signal level. Volume control can only be done using the m9xx volume knob.
I also use an Apple TV (3rd gen) and optical TosLink to the m9xx. This gives me the ability to use my iPhone and iPad to send a wireless signal to the m9xx. In this case, the iPhone or iPad will vary the volume level to the Apple TV.