Fixed!!!, my fault, it was on the wrong Line Out setting, there are three settings-0-1 Line Out Output,

0-2 Headphone Amp output and 0-3 Headphone Amp & Line Put Output (default), I had it on 0-1 when it should

have been 0-3, all is good the Bass has returned!, my equipment is all old if anyone is interested it is a Micromega

Stage 5 CD player, Marantz CD65 MK2 SE CD played, Musical Fidelity Elektra E100 Amp, Dual 505-2 turntable

and some really good Australian speakers called Richter Wizards I do not think there will be many of those speakers

in the UK and the Headphones are Meze 99 Neo, the DAC is new (bought last week) it is a Topping DX3 Pro Plus nothing fancy but good enough for me, thanks again for the replies just off now to make my first Coffee of the day!

    I think I am getting thicker the older I get, it’s really frustrating sometimes!!

    gordy53 my equipment is all old if anyone is interested it is a Micromega

    Stage 5 CD player, Marantz CD65 MK2 SE CD played, Musical Fidelity Elektra E100 Amp, Dual 505-2 turntable

    There’s some nosalgia in there. I have a similar CD player, Marantz like you, but CD63 KI-Sig. I’ve listened to a few others over the years but can’t find anything I like more (or at least, sufficiently more to be worth ‘upgrading’), without spending obscene money on it, which I’m certainly not going to do. The rest of my stuff is similar era, but different options.

    Sadly, as I get older so the tech usually improves but I still have my now distinctly sub-optimal Mk.1 ears. It’s the limiting factor these days.

      yes I agree about the hearing as I have terrible Tinnitus, had it for about 30years, when we are in bed at night my will hear something and she say’s to me “did you hear that noise?” and I reply “ I wish I could” as all I hear is the bloody ringing in my ‘lugs’

        gordy53

        Have you tried acupuncture? Friend of mine also had tinnitus forever & tried acupuncture, was fixed in two sessions.

          gordy53 I first became aware of mine 7 or 8 years ago, a constant 12,000 Hz tone. It’s an irritation because although I can usually “tune” it out so I become unaware of it. You can become aware of it again if listening out for high frequencies, or in silent places. Writing about it has made me aware of it again, it will probably take 5 minutes to tune it out now. It’s quite irritating.

          P.S. I was very careful with my hearing all my life, avoiding loud sounds/places. I still use earplugs in Cinemas, because it’s too loud.

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            Around 10kHz for me. Intermittent and not too annoying. My late mother used to get classical music sometimes.

            gordy53 Tinnitus

            It’s been a few years. It’s a continuous high-pitched buzz. It’s frustrating at times; but, kind of learned to ignore it.

              I’ve just started with it but I can still hear 20hz to 16k

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              I used to go to an awful lot of Rock Concerts '‘when I were lad’' and worked in the print trade on various presses and it got pretty noisy but I never took a lot of notice really so it is my fault but as people say if I keep busy doing something and do not think about it it’s not so noticeable

                just listening to a CD I have not played for 20 odd years ‘456’ by ‘The Grid’ from 1992 I forgot how great it was, so much music on my CD racks to catch up on, life is hard sometimes!, Coffee and Music go so well together

                i listen to music, most nights i use headphones,

                i have deezer, which has most stuff, ive tried the likes of qobuz/tidal which have supp better quality, not that dezzer is lacking,

                i find deezer has such a better user interface,

                i listen with my new audeze ldc-2 classic open headphones, through a smsl su6 dac and a ifizen can balanced amp

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                gordy53 used to go to an awful lot of Rock Concerts '‘when I were lad

                Same here, only difference is that i’m still doing that at almost 63. Also worked in Power generation, those steam turbines weren’t quiet. I have constant multi-frequency ringing in my ears.

                  It seems like Tinnitus is way more common as we get older than I thought!

                  I used to think it was only me.

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                    DavecUK I’m 42, have been to an awful lot of concerts (rock, metal, doom) and have tinnitus. You are definitely not alone!

                      Mine is sorta constant, a bit like a high-pitched wheezy whistle but it …. pulses. Literally, I think. It’s a bit less than once per second, which is about right for my resting heartbeat. I’m convinced, though never had it medically confirmed, that the pulsing, a slight and very brief dip in frequency due to blood pressure dropping. I rationaise it, because itt’s what it sounds like, as dipping in frequency in the brief moment between heartbeats when the heart is at rest.

                      It has it’s advantages …. at least I know my heart is still going. 😉

                      It is also, as a friend would say, a right nucking fuisance.

                      I’ve always been pretty careful with listening volumes, though there was that Black Sabbath concert at Hammersmith Odeon about 40 years ago. Not that it was loud, but I nearly got flattened by a double-decker bus when I came out, ’cos I didn’t hear the dratted thing coming.

                      Most listening these days is either on Sennheiser Momentum cordless headphones, or my trusty old Stax Electrostatics. Oh, and Cambridge Audio earbuds, from the phone. Mostly, I listen to digitised versions of my LPs and CDs, stored locally, on a NAS in the house. But I like a really clear sound, not loud sound. Frankly, too much of the time I have a headache to want head-banging. And sadly, my rock concert days are long over.

                      Boy, as a music lover I cannot imagine anything worse than having tinitus. Like many of us oldies in my heyday I went to plenty of rock concerts and there is only one I actually walked out on because it was too loud. It was a Motorhead concert and Lemmy took great pleasure in exhalting how loud they were going to be. True to his word it was loud but not so much it hurt the ears just so loud the ‘music’ was an unintelligable blurr of noise as were any of Lemmy’s vocals.

                      I can’t wait for the building work to be finished (this week) then the decorating and setting up my hi-fi including my Linn record deck which hasn’t spun for a few years.

                        Pompeyexile and setting up my hi-fi including my Linn record deck which hasn’t spun for a few years.

                        I know that feeling, too. The LP12 was on my very short list but I ended up with a Mitchell Electronic Reference … very similar to the classic “Hydraulic” in Clockwork Orange, but with electronic speed control, not the ‘weather vane in oil bath’ of the Hydraulic. Interestingly (I think) Mitchell Engineering still support those 70s decks to this day (even after the sad loss of John Mitchell) - I re-furb’d mine a few months ago, including replacing the felt pads on the gold-plated record supports. Add an SME arm an a small collection of now defunct cartridges (Stanton, Ortofon, Satin, etc) and that’s my LP end …. which also didn’t get used for a while, prior to refusb.