Opposite effect with cardas/Ayre CD


Hi
After hearing about it too many times i decided to give it a try.Ran the whole CD at moderate level and had the opposite effect.The system sounds gritty now,all synergy and enjoyment is lost.If anybody there had a similar experience,please let me know.I don't want to sound like a lepper here but i trully sat down to listen with some sort of positive thinking.The change in sound is unmistakable but not for the good.Hope to hear from you guys.
(System:Revel Salons/Krell SACD mk3,CJ Prem.18 & Pass X 250.5)
overhang

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No,Cyclonicman,i wasn't in the room during the sweep.
Just tried listening again to my system.Definite change for the worse.I wonder how long it will take take to regain the lost synergy.i just played Azymuth and noticed the Fender Rhodes is not 3D like it used to be but flat and little high frequency details are completely lost.Bass sounds like it is struggling and soundstage is shrunk.Still it is amazing that a cd can do things like that.I wonder if on certain days when we think that our system does not sound right (you know what i mean)is just the result of a last cd that we played the previous day somehow messing out with the system's static energy via its frequency modulations.
I wonder if MD will give refund for the CD.They will probably think that i made a copy of it.
I should have read this by Art Dudley first:"But as I heard it, my hi-fi sounded mechanical and utterly devoid of human feeling for close to an hour after playing this CD. Not only did I refuse to allow it to be played again, I put the CD back in its case and hid it—seriously. If it were up to me, it would be retitled Irritating But Irritating, and he only good thing I can say is that, after a while, its effects wear off. "