Am I nuts?
nooshinjohn
Posts: 25,463
I am hearing things I have never heard before in my music... like the individual tracks that have been baked down to form the two stereo tracks. This happens on LP and cd regardless of SACD or regular CD. It is especially apparent on music that the vocals were laid down separate from the instrumental portions, which is a LOT of music.
The instrumentation is usually very full bodied and full of spacial cues, rich textures and plenty of depth. Vocals on the other hand, can sometimes appear flat or compressed, without any of the sparkle I would expect.
This does not happen always, and many recordings sound fantastic, but there are many that just seem to be ripped open and exposed as still sounding good musically, but vocally, they just break the illusion of true-to-life that my system is capable of painting. Any ideas or have I gone insane somewhere in this rabbit hole known as audiophilia?
The instrumentation is usually very full bodied and full of spacial cues, rich textures and plenty of depth. Vocals on the other hand, can sometimes appear flat or compressed, without any of the sparkle I would expect.
This does not happen always, and many recordings sound fantastic, but there are many that just seem to be ripped open and exposed as still sounding good musically, but vocally, they just break the illusion of true-to-life that my system is capable of painting. Any ideas or have I gone insane somewhere in this rabbit hole known as audiophilia?
The Gear... Carver "Statement" Mono-blocks, Mcintosh C2300 Arcam AVR20, Oppo UDP-203 4K Blu-ray player, Sony XBR70x850B 4k, Polk Audio Legend L800 with height modules, L400 Center Channel Polk audio AB800 "in-wall" surrounds. Marantz MM7025 stereo amp. Simaudio Moon 680d DSD
“When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil.”— Thomas Jefferson
“When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil.”— Thomas Jefferson
Comments
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Listen to your music on a my little kitty CD player for a month, and your worries will vanish.
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Sounds like a very high resolution system. I like being able to hear different recording techniques used.
What about live recordings?"Science is suppose to explain observations not dismiss them as impossible" - Norm on AA; 2.3TL's w/sonicaps/mills/jantzen inductors, Gimpod's boards, Lg Solen SDA inductors, RD-0198's, MW's dynamatted, Armaflex speaker gaskets, H-nuts, brass spikes, Cardas CCGR BP's, upgraded IC Cable, Black Hole Damping Sheet strips, interior of cabinets sealed with Loctite Power Grab, AI-1 interface with 1000VA A-L transformer -
Go back to a tubed pre amp and your musicality will return. I've always said super revealing gear can sound good, but too much of a good thing can have the opposite effect.
As far as you being nuts.....tell us something we don't know. lolHT SYSTEM-
Sony 850c 4k
Pioneer elite vhx 21
Sony 4k BRP
SVS SB-2000
Polk Sig. 20's
Polk FX500 surrounds
Cables-
Acoustic zen Satori speaker cables
Acoustic zen Matrix 2 IC's
Wireworld eclipse 7 ic's
Audio metallurgy ga-o digital cable
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Grant Fidelity tube dac
B&k 1420
lsi 9's
