In Reply to: A strange experience with bad recordings on CDs. posted by beppe61 on November 5, 2006 at 04:50:28:
I used to think more articulation would make my crappy recordings worse, but heard some highly accurate stuff make my crappy recordings sound pretty good w/o feeling the need to add any artificial enhancements. Getting the speaker to amp synergy right is a critical interface. Doing the same for the rest will not only improve things individually but as a whole. Thus far, got the best overall results after everything was within a similiar level of performance.Choosing between the source or preamp is like the which came first the chicken or the egg question. Try to identify which is the bigger bottleneck by comparing the differences between sticking a better source in front of your pre vs vis-versa. Good sources are cheaper and easier to find than preamps. Better sources yields a better treble, bigger soundstage, and more clarity and resolution, but the gap is more subtle than other component changes. I’ve had a love/hate relationship with every pre thus far, but the better ones seem to do a better job of doing nothing.
Believe what your ears say - not hearsay.
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Follow Ups
- Re: A strange experience with bad recordings on CDs. - saltyflies 09:59:35 11/07/06 (1)
- Thank you Sir. - beppe61 22:59:29 11/07/06 (0)