To the OP. I have had so many clients feeling as you do. You are listening to the equipment, and you are concentrating on audiophile stuff. You are not alone with this. Having a good/great system (the speakers / room/ sound preferences start here). Our recorded music has several things going on. The music playing; the musicianship (instrument playing/singing) of your favorite artists. The musical composition...the piece/work of the music(song). All of the engineering/ mastering/ compression/equalization (and much more). From the microphones, down the recording chain.....the purity and reality, sound wise, has been lost (compromised), imo. So, what "IS A GIVEN". Our musicians, and the "works"...what they created, what they performed. An audio system, for me, needs to connect me, to these two characteristics, first and foremost. As most audiophiles concentrate on where the musicians are placed on a stage, the acoustics of that stage (spatiality) and the tone of the instruments (remember, these are recordings), I listen, first and foremost, to the musicianship, and the composition. "WHAT" are they doing up on this stage, in front of us. This is the joy for me. I repeated it, because it is important. Most, if not all musicians, listen this way. Try it, you’ll like it. My best, MrD.
Does it ever end?
I have recently been on yet another search for more magic for my system. ( current components; Leben CS 600, Electrocompanient ECM MK II Dac Steamer, Feikert Volare TT with Soundsmith Zephyr, Leben phono stage and countless NOS tubes). As I sit here and listen, and incidentally burn dinner, it sounds lovely. Yet the itch is always there to try another tube , cable , a new network switch, a LAN filter etc. I recently calculated that I have more tube years than years to live. ( I won't share the numbers as they embarrass even me ). And, I wonder, when will the itch stop; as again it sounds quite nice as it exists currently. Oh well, back to burning dinner.
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Merry go round upgrade stops with a system sounds like below. Alex/Wavetouch audio |
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