C'mon over for a beer Andy, and we'll listen to some "non detailed" music. Many of us began our audio journey well before CD and on equipment that struggled to produce much coherent sound outside of "midrange and boomy bass". However, the music mattered, small album clicks and pops were part of life no matter how delicately we treated our albums and many rebelled at the new "Digital sound" of CD. All of this started many of us on our quest for better "sound". However, somewhere along the way greed, audio eletism and other ugly warts formed in place of enjoyment. These days, I find "detailed" and "musically natural" to be mutually eclusive. What I want is for a piano to sound like a piano and not have cymbals provide so much shimmering "detail" that the sound shimmers into the next song. Andy, continue on your "musical" quest and enjoy that which you hear.
Details don't mean a thing
After experiencing with different hi-end CDP that supposedly gives you a load of details, I was to say the least very disappointed. Details don't mean a thing unless they can make some sense. After awhile, it just gets too chaotic. Wit upsampling and super high resolution DAC out there, it's very tricky to make a high-end cdp. I just don't understand some of the thought going into making cdp from some of the high-end cdp makers. How can any sane human can listen to all those details without going insane?
I am going back to low-detail more musical CDP.
I am going back to low-detail more musical CDP.