Okay, today I hooked it up and have spend some time listening. The change in my system was very dramatic and positive. First of all, it seems suddenly like a good electricity day. The noise floor dropped out. The timbre of the music and the body and presence of the music became correct and full. The presentation changed very much. There is no audiophile soundstage: any ideas of artifice of imaging created by the process of recording disappear. The presentation is simply correct as it would be in real life and there is no concern with an imaginary soundstage. This is the thing which impresses me the most immediately: I am simply listening to the Sound and I for the most part suddenly am not obsessing about wires and capacitors and tubes. The only thing, as with Romy's experience is the blunting of the HF. It is not incorrect or distorted. It is simply that the liveliness is absent. Hopefully it will return during the next week.
Those are the initial impressions. More to come. But to me so far it seems like everything I hoped for and more. |
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