I’m glad for these posts. I see it’s a common phenomenon.
The difference is LITERALLY night and day!
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I’ve identified the problem. It’s a tube in the preamp that was going bad.
it was intermittently causing distortion and reeking havoc with the sound, from one day to another. After replacing the tube, the set sounds better than ever (or so it seems after the nightmare.)
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Much of what many have said here is true. To go to extremes, whether love or hate, is to miss the glorious middle of true enjoyment.
Mea culpa! |
Isotek Orion Power line Conditioner with Isotek Elite 5 foot Power cord
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Notwithstanding tube problems, I think what denydog says is absolutely true.
When I listen just for the “sound” of my system I hear all kinds of abnormalities, but when I’m listening to the MUSIC instead of my SYSTEM everything seems to sound natural. It’s like the “suspension of disbelief” you adapt when reading a book or seeing a movie. I don’t think we can ever really match the sound of real instruments on our sets, so if we listen just for that we’re going to be very disappointed. However when we listen for the music itself, we’re not so much concentrating on the physical sound, but the musical message being expressed. So if we “suspend” the belief we’re listening to live instruments we can get into the music much more easily and the instruments sound just fine. |
What has this got to do with the topic of this thread?
Find a back alley somewhere, and settle it!
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2channel8,
I think you have something there about Eustachian tubes,
I have problems on airplane flights too. When my set sounds unbalanced, I pinch my nose and blow, and it clears up the imbalance. This tip was given to me by my ear doctor. |
Notwithstanding my point that you should concentrate on the music, not the sound, there is no doubt that the quality of the sound can vary from day to day. And that difference can be significant!
Right now I’m listening to a CD (Shostakovich’s 8th Symphony with Gergiev conducting) which sounded dull and lifeless a few days ago. Today it’s blowing my socks off!
The trick is not to let that bother you so much that you can’t get past it and hear the music. This can be difficult with very dynamic music. |
I’ll stay with the single malt Scotch.
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Are we talking about the $40, $140, or $600 bottle?
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I might try the $40 bottle.
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Okay, this is ridiculous!
Notwithstanding all that has been written here, today my system is sounding like it NEVER sounded before. All the parameters of sound are way better.
Is it electrical? Who the f@#$ knows?!
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geoffkait,
In desperation, I may try a log. Anything to make sense of this chaos.
The syststem has been sounding blah for a long while, then, all of a sudden, today it sounds like gangbusters.
I had given up. There’s gotta be some way to make sense of it.
Maybe sunspots!
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Like you, the problem for me is my ears get “ruined” too, and that carries over to the next listening session or until I hear something really good again. |
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I’m doing well, jafant. How about you?
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Thank you for asking.
It’s sounding better than ever thanks to new Morrow interconnects and power cables. Expensive, but the improvement was worth it.
How about your system? |
