My MA3i is coming Monday. Would you suggest that I burn it in first, or that I just burn it in while listening to it, which is what I usuallly do with new equipment? But if its sound without being burned in will give me a negative opinion of it, I will burn it in silently.
Does anyone have a digital system that is as involving as their analogue front end?
I have a good analogue front end. Not stratuspherically good but good enough for this comparison. VPI Prime Signature 21 turntable, Pass Labs XP-25 pono preamp, Pass Labs XP-30 preamp and Hovland Radia amp. It has a lovely, very involving sound. On the right recording, I just drop everythng and am drawn in to listen.
My streamer, on the other hand, is decent but not spectacular. It is better than my CD player, but it is not jaw-dropping like my analogue front-end. My question is this: does anyone have a high-end, tier-one streamer (dCS Bartok Apex, Lumin X2, or something like them) that can rival a good analogue system?
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It’d be nice to have more than one life, to follow more than one path. My alternative would to have been to be a musician, but I wouldn’t want to have missed out on the other things that I’ve done. I was fortunate to pick up the threads again in my forties. And joined my first band at nearly fifty. It was actually more like being press ganged than joining. I found the great thing about playing with a band is that it doesn’t really matter what you do because the other guys carry on regardless. So you get the opportunity to allow your unconscious to take over and improvise.
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It kind of took me up. I’ve never been good at drawing and so in high school thought I could not be a visual artist. I took an art class at Berkeley just for fun. I was an English major. I had a lot of trouble with the drawing part. I was drawing a nude modell, frustratingly pushing down hard on the charcoal. My teacher came up behind me and said, "Loosen up." That made me all the more tight. She started throwing coffee on my drawing and it made me so angry that I just started wildly swinging around my charcoal. And the model magically appeared. Out of my right brain where we see images. Our left brain awkwardly tries to measure and use symbolic strategies. The right brain just sees things. Beginners in poetry try to tell people things, like philosophers. It’s when you learn to paint a picture in images without any philosophical (left brain is logic) underpinnings that the right brain’s brilliance comes out. I am sure it is the same in music. Mozart, probably the most prolific artist year for year of output (Haydn is up there) was probably just able to let his right brain flow and bounce back and forth with his left brain. A very difficult thing to do, but artists must learn. I write a poem or paint a picture trying to stay in my unconscious and then later mold it with my conscious mind. It’s a very difficult balance. And why great artists are owed our admiration. I do envy you for being in a band. I bet the other players help to generate your creativity. |
@audio-b-dog you can listen to it initially. Shouldn’t be terrible. But keep it running 24/7 with some Qobuz playlist |
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