Small report about a "milestone" :
I have many albums which I test regularly after the more severe SQ changes. These are always albums which don't work (out). One of these is Thriller from Michael Jackson and I always tried to get it work in "hi-fi" environment. For example, Billy Jean is such a track that works (very) well in disco's, but never in my living room; it just shows too much of the synthesized drums (the whole album).
Well, it now happened the first time that I not only thought it worked well, but I also listened out the whole album. And I can recall that from LP only ...
I honestly even wondered where all those synthesized drums went. So a whole bunch of "surrounding grey" at drum hits was not there anymore ?
Separate from eachother we both noticed even real cymbals, though rather far away.
From there I tried Enigma again (Cross of Changes). This is a more commonly known "grey" kind of music and I mention it more often. This sure has worked in some stage, but it never did anymore for the past two years. Something like : things might have gotten more accurate, but it can emphasize that grey. And for sure W8 doesn't help with that (brings it to the lean side with too few underlaying fundamental - at least here that is so).
This too not only worked now again, but the whole perception went in a direction that we both here said "huh ?". But anyway, no grey highs but very refined instead (and I thus knew already it can do this and it really is a measure for us all).
Then I'm always and ever trying to get a A Whole Lotta Love right (Led Zeppelin). Well, funny, because now it is finally the most clear how the large hits after the sound scape break just are nothing but 100% analog oversteered distortion. Just listen to the start of the track and the guitar and now you can hear the very same from there. So those hits always sounded like that to me but with the option "is it a synth or what is it actually ?" and with the notice those hits are way louder than the remainder of the track. But the whole thing has been recorded all the way into "the red", so that's why.
How it happens that just now this has become so clear ? better accuracy again or something.
There's also the Made In Japan (Deep Purple) and how the cymbals are rendered in there;
This has always been a matter of how much they are audible to begin with, which is very different from how well they are rendered. So, I recall from LP that they were rather grey, and possibly the more I played the LP the more grey it became;
While this is actually my reference, digital sure improved there, but it still merely was about the loudness of them (the cymbals). Today this changed;
Now it's cymbals of various sizes and colours and nothing much grey about them. The best ever (from that album) I'd say.
On another note there's the less discernable for the better or worse : the Hammond. So I recall from another report from me somewhere in the past months (6 months ago ?) that this went so square that it became nasty. Here too it's the missing fundamentals that made it that - at least that's how I interpret it today.
Notice that at this moment this is with W7 (not saying that W8 will be bad - I just don't know at this moment because of too many other changes like isolated USB and on water floating NOS1) with the notice that my current sig (of W7) does not show the Appointment Scheme Core 3-5 which is what I'm currently using.
Peter
Funny you mentioned Mischael Jackson. I always wondered why his albums are so "Bad"
. A multi million guy and than make such recordings.
Indeed i do not have the idear anymore that i can call this bad recordings.
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