Do you trust your system?


I was constantly upgrading gear, demoing songs, reading reviews, trying to find out why I had the feeling that the song I was playing shouldn’t sound the way it does. Something off or lacking, I luckily found a set of equipment and a room setup that if a song is off, it’s likely recorded that way. I trust my system to do a decent job.  I wonder do others get to a point where they are more critical of mastering techniques than something wrong with their equipment? Admittedly, it’s easier to say how a piece of gear or cable made some significant difference, but in what exactly since the music sources are so wildly manipulated by engineers?

dain

The better is your audio system, the closer it takes you to all pros and contras of a particular sound recording. From there, it is a matter of a taste which kind of sound you like more (I personally like both, tube and class D amp sound, i cannot say which one i like more, but i admit that a SET tube amp may deliver a most realistic sound). And a few thousand dollars upgrade in tour digital stuff will have less influence on the SQ of your system than the quality of the sound recording of a particular album.