I have a slightly different take. First, the best enhancement to SQ is a bong hit of some good hybrid. Never fails! But at this stage, having heard my classic rock a million times, I find myself listening to a lot of bootlegs, especially Led Zeppelin, my favorite rock group. The boots vary in quality from soundboard, near commercial quality, to not so good audience tapes from the '70's. I find that my current system makes everything sound better, i.e., well-recorded music sounds fantastic and poorly recorded music still sounds good although the difference in SQ is obvious. So I think that some systems are so resolving that unless something is well-recorded, it sounds like crap. I prefer a system that is smoother . . . not that detail is lost, but sounds smoother. My ARC/Pass combo with Wilson Sabrina X speakers, an MSB DAC and a loom of Shunyata Sigma cables and Shunyata Everest, hit that sweet spot!
And the biggest influence on sound quality is...
The quality of the recording itself.
Then the room, the setup, the speakers, and lastly the front end.
I've got recordings that make my system sound horrible, and I've got recordings that make my system sound absolutely wonderful.
None of the gear changes have had that much impact on sound quality.
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Tom, Happy Friday! You don’t have enough room treatment.. ; ) Kidding aside, with that marvelous system I’m certain you are getting exceptional sound. Your experience with aweful recordings sounding awful, and great ones sound great, surely is a sign of a transparent system faithfully reproducing whatever recordings you play? |
@troutstreamnm , I have often just threaded a couple of AN fittings together and made a (to borrow from you) makeshift pipe with a small bowl, and nirvana always followed. |
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