@rv, I hope and wish you well, always. It is wonderful when you can enjoy the music through the rig. What I find the engineers, producers and the artists do right, and this requires a very fine ear, is the ability to take each individual track (studio recordings specifically) and synchronize it all, resembling each performer playing live, together, in sync......of course this is why I listen, for the musicianship. The composition is the music, the musicianship is the expressiveness by them, of the composition. Most listeners concentrate on the "sound" of an instrument/voice, or the "space" they are in, but the only "given", is the "performance". It is all important, no doubt, but realistically imo, the recording is always the bottleneck of what we are listening to. I say this because I also use headphones some of the time (ever get a headphone rig?). Of course, the speaker / room / system set up, is crucially important. My rant is over. Enjoy! MrD.
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I’ve played the Mercury Living Presence sampler “You are There” on all incarnations of my setup for many years. With each improvement of my rig it’s sounded better. Until now, finally it’s sounding the way it really should. It’s a great confirmation that I’m doing things right after many years of experimenting, with advice from this forum.
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@richardbrand, as this thread is based on Mercury recordings, and classical for that matter, I likely should not have said anything at all, as I totally agree and concur with everything you said. "Multi Track" recordings are what I was referring to, as I listen to and have been involved with multi track recording (studio stuff). Sorry, I should have specified that.....my bad |
@rvpiano , I asked about headphones, as you created a thread about having an interest in a great headphone system. I have a few studio headphones, all closed back (Sony, Denon, Audio Technica), as this has been my preference so far, however, I do own a Headroom Max, which has brought me glorious music. Possibly old school by now, but I enjoy it. MrD. |
@richardbrand , sorry so late for a response. Admittedly, my classical music listening participation is quite less than the posters here, on this particular thread. I am a rock and jazz guy, 45/45...A great example of an exquisite "studio, multi track" recording, would be "Welcome to the Pleasuredome", an album which is uncanny for its work put in by Trevor Horn, the producer. Likely not an album you would listen to (I might be wrong), but I am a huge fan of this debut studio album by FGTH. It is also a great soundtrack to fine tune a system. Somewhere on here, I started a thread on this particular recording....My best, MrD. |
@rvpiano This is awesome. Congrats. Remote volume is a great thing, as everything we listen to has a different output level from one other. I know you experimented with bypassing your CJ preamp (going passive) and preferring the preamp. Your dac is a very good preamp, with gain, so I am wondering if you will try and bypass the CJ again, going direct from the dac into the power amp. By doing this, you will eliminate the CJ line gain stage, a 2nd volume control (that of the CJ). and one less pair of interconnects. The gain settings on the dac are numerous (internally adjustable) so I am not suggesting stressing over it.....but I would, again, eliminate the CJ for a bit, and use the dac as a preamp straight into the AHB2. For phono listening, you would connect the tape out (rec out) of the CJ, into an analog input of the dac, using the CJ as a phono preamp. I am terribly sorry for bringing any of this up, but this is what I would do....I am a terrible person |
....In the meantime, enjoy! My best, MrD.