Looking for more transparency.

What I do is open up my system, then tune it back in to the textures I want (transparency being one of them). I'm different from some I read here. I don't like squeezing the system to get transparency, that's a prescription for fatigue in my book and something I see so many freaking out over, after they thought they were on the path to clarity. I have the music on 24/7 and making jumps to always adding something new can easily throw things into permanent  breakin and that can cloud up the music faster than anything. System settling is the most advanced tweak of all and when we have a system that have parts only a few months old we can bet most of our music sounds strained, because it is. When at TAS reviewers homes one of the first things I would notice is how uptight their systems sounded. Big boxes everywhere locking in things instead of freeing them. It was easy to hear the signal blockage and I spent my first few hours unlocking the signal. A lot of big eyes and smiles the next day when we would begin uncovering all the music that had disappeared before. One of the words being discovered at that time was the listening meaning of the word "transparency". True transparency is when you can see through the thick into the wholeness of the event, not squeezing the signal to the point where the soundstage starts creating "holes" (parts of the signal missing).

mg