Confessions

This evening, I listened to Simple Red's "Stars" album and thought it was well-recorded. I'm not admitting to being a fan though. Have only listened to the disc about 6 times in 15 years but just put it on today (the Transporter makes it easy to listen to stuff you never listen to) for something easy after work and thought it sounded quite good. The best I'd ever heard it. My latest system made the difference on that.

As an aside have you had that happen? That is, listen to a disc you never particularly liked on your latest system and find a good synergy that made you re-assess the disc. I've had that happen a few times since I put together my latest system.

I bought George Michael's Listen without Prejudice after hearing him sing Praying for Time on American Idol. Great lyrics but the disk is for lack of a better word weirdly recorded. I don't know how else to describe it. It's sounds like hi-fi AM radio. There's a thinness to it that I've never heard before. It's sounds like something's missing. Some of the other songs are not bad but he should have done a lot better on production.