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@spenav 

Yes you are right, it is the way I like it.  But as far as the Mercury Sampler goes, the instruments never sounded so real before without distortion as in the previous incarnations of my setup. 
 

BTW, I listened to the Qobuz version of the recording, not the original disc (which I also own.)

@rvpiano Yes there’s that point where the room “gets pressurised” and the music comes alive when the volume gets turned up enough ( but not too too much). Subs sure help. 
 

My system test

https://open.qobuz.com/playlist/3511772

Rock on 

@wsrrsw 

Thanks for sharing the playlist. 

@rvpiano 

This is a great sampler as far content goes, the Qobuz version does sound little bit lean. So I decided to pick up CD copy for $5, it would be interesting to compare how CD ripped version stacks up against the Qobuz version. 

Congratulations!

Over the weekend, I sat my wife down in the listening position and played her a few tunes and said this is why I’ve I keep at it. She smiled and walked out of the room 😁

@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.