CD by Tony Minasian titled "Drums & Bells" (Comparing Sticks) and
it’s "just" a 16 bit recording, it blows away the notion that I need
hi-rez in my life.
Listening to this for the first time as i type ....everything positive people have said is true ...WOW ..clarity ...long real decays ...placing of instruments ....its not really musical in the ordinary sense of music to listen to... whilst still being very listenable ..its all here...a realistic drum set in my living room, right now, with clashes and decays that (to borrow a phrase from John Darko) hang like Gandolph’s fireworks in the air.
I'm playing the CD on a 2005 Musical Fidelity A5 CD player (later i'm going to try it in my Marantz 6000 OSE Ki as well...both going via BenchMark DAC1 HDR as Pre amp into Cyrus Mono Xs and then Klipsch Quartets ...i can honestly say the sound has never been clearer and more impactful from any of my digital experiences previously and that this finally matches listening to some of my best vinyl recordings via TT and Tube amp into the same speakers .....next up is Tonian Trio 'Hang Around' which is Persussion, Clarinet and Cello, which should be a much more musical listen, whilst keeping the same sense of dynamics, spacing and clarity....
Listening to this for the first time as i type ....everything positive people have said is true ...WOW ..clarity ...long real decays ...placing of instruments ....its not really musical in the ordinary sense of music to listen to... whilst still being very listenable ..its all here...a realistic drum set in my living room, right now, with clashes and decays that (to borrow a phrase from John Darko) hang like Gandolph’s fireworks in the air.
I'm playing the CD on a 2005 Musical Fidelity A5 CD player (later i'm going to try it in my Marantz 6000 OSE Ki as well...both going via BenchMark DAC1 HDR as Pre amp into Cyrus Mono Xs and then Klipsch Quartets ...i can honestly say the sound has never been clearer and more impactful from any of my digital experiences previously and that this finally matches listening to some of my best vinyl recordings via TT and Tube amp into the same speakers .....next up is Tonian Trio 'Hang Around' which is Persussion, Clarinet and Cello, which should be a much more musical listen, whilst keeping the same sense of dynamics, spacing and clarity....