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Does your system hate you when you ignore her?

I've not been able to listen to my system seriously for about 3 weeks. I just sat down to Emmylou Harris' " Red Dirt Girl" on HDCD. My first impression was that the soundstage was not as wide as I expected. I suppose that it's possible that components need to re-burn in after prolonged periods without being energized. I also suppose it's possible that one's trained listening skills may need refreshing after a period of atrophy.

Have you experienced similar things? What were the variables that you were able to eliminate, such as experiencing the same effect on two different systems, one rested and one not, in the same time period after not listening.
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@erik_squires  and @reubent , My amp is a Class D and I did have it totally powered off.

@theo, There are cheap women. ;^)

@noromance , Daddy long-legs don't weave webs; but I get the point.

To all: Truly I am the variable in many ways, but I didn't think the breadth of the soundstage would be one of these. After the incident I described above, which was only a brief time before the Commander in Chief summoned me back to duty, I left the Primare I32 fully powered up, thinking I'd be back soon. No such luck, so she stayed that way waiting for me for about 12 hours until I noticed on my way out the door the next morning and put her in standby. A day or two later I had the time to sit and listen for a while. This time it was an MP3, 320 download of Jackson Browne's The Naked Ride Home - my first listen to this album. The soundstage was gloriously realistic, the music clear, detailed and wonderful. I put Red Dirt Girl, which is the HDCD version, back in the Ayre C-5xeMP and all was well again.

I probably should not have used the word 'hate'. I think she was just mad at me for a while. Thankfully, all seems to be forgiven.

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