Specifications

When using balanced XLR headphone cables, you may turn original lucid mode on or
off at will without the rather odd results described above. This is because original lucid
mode was designed for speakers, not headphones - where the ground wire of each
channel is shared.
LUCID MODE WITH SPEAKERS
Since the original lucid mode was designed for speakers, there are no issues using it
with speakers. New Lucid mode, however, was designed for 50 ohm planar
headphones as a super imaging enhancement, and while it can be used with
speakers, the maximum power of the amplifier into speakers is reduced when New
Lucid mode is engaged. Basically if you’re planning on using New Lucid mode with
speakers you’ll have to restrict yourself to modest volume levels. Turning New Lucid
mode OFF restores full power to the loudspeakers.
NEW LUCID MODE - HOW IT WORKS
Unlike Original Lucid mode, who’s effect is subtle... New Lucid mode’s effect is
anything but subtle! It expands the soundstage in all directions giving you the
sensation of being on stage and part of the music. It does however have different
results from one recording to another... this can lead to questions like the following:
“Using New Lucid mode I hear Doug Mcleod’s voice coming out of the right and his
guitar coming out of the left. In stereo the image has him playing the guitar while singing
and he is standing more toward the left side in the studio... but it sounds like someone else
is playing the guitar in lucid mode. Why does it do that?”
New Lucid Mode works by in part by allowing information from the L and R channels to
mix at different phase angles based on frequency.!This causes information that is
perfectly identical on both channels to be reduced in amplitude.! It also can cause the
differences between channels to magnify.! And while it sounds simple enough it will
have unique results from recording to recording.!Some recordings it will come off as an
echo and ruin it. Some recordings, like Doug Mcleod, will separate into the original pan
settings before the two microphones and corresponding tracks were summed and then
panned slightly left.!Some recordings will have tons of information that is faint in the
background that explodes to life when "new" lucid mode is used.!
Everything you hear is the result of changing the amplitude and phase angle of what is
already there on the recording. You could think of it as uncovering hidden information
in cases like that. !
O W N E R S M A N U A L
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