Digitalitis

[the sound of Tao]

As if we need more cowbell.



Maybe it will be better understood when a therapy is developed.



or obscurity descends when we demand answers where there are no real questions?

Potential itis - gotta love it.

That therapy is already there waiting for rediscovery… we call it the music (please mama make all the other bad noises go away lol ) and darn those other wayward non-audiophile mortals who spend way less and worry way less and still enjoy music

 

[RussR]

One last thought has anyone tested on hearing water marks on digital ?

I have a faint recollection Martin Colloms touched on this many years ago......It may have been someone else ,But I have a feeling it was a UK based publication.

 

[LL21]

...Too.many audiophiles seem to be in the business of masking problems rather than solving them. ...I solved my problems with electronics, room acoustics and set-up...

...Another thing that I found is that the better the system becomes, the more recordings turn out to be excellent or very good. I have learned to blame the recording last. Often laying that blame turns out to be just a copout, and the problems lie elsewhere, system, room, set-up. Of course, there will remain those recordings that are irredeemable.

I certainly have personally experienced and observed the part in bold above in our own system as it has continued to evolve and improve. It does not turn a Furtwangler recording into a BIS Suzuki recording...but the Furtwangler shockingly becomes more than listenable and actually becomes quite easy to listen to and beyond that, the performance itself then takes primacy where it is a riveting experience...whereas before (at least for me) some of his original recordings were previously something I really had to concentrate on 'listening through' the noise to get to the music.

This bold part above has been a massive discovery for me over the last 14 years starting with 2 major acquisitions, the original Zanden 5000S DAC and the Wilson X1/Grand SLAMMS, then next with a long sequence of incremental acquisitions when we first started experimenting with equipment isolation (as opposed to just plonking it down on a tv shelf.) Initially, what was a discovery of detail became far more nuanced as a discovery that with that detail came a surprising amount of 'life' in the music (for lack of a better term)...real life...where somehow as the system became more and more resolved, and its reproduction more and more resolute, it managed to 'dig into' the original recordings better.

I am (only after a year of listening to hundreds of albums) starting to appreciate the depth of the Robert Koda electronics in this very regard...and so it continues...