If having a system worth upwards of $75k could make an album sound better I'd be squirreling away money to buy one - but I'll probably be dead before that happens.
I play golf, badly, and not often as I'd like to. I could literally spend a couple thousand bucks on better clubs but...I'd still be a pretty below average shagger.
Stringreen, I most certainly am not casting aspersions on your system or making light of its cost. Nor am I doubting its value to you. If I had the funds I'd have one, too.
Poor recordings/pressings et al have been around for as long as I can remember. I can recall playing records in the '70's that I thought were awful sonically. I've been listening to Simon's latest recently and have found it to be pretty dismissable content-wise, compared to his previous releases at least IMHO, and the sonics are definitely more in-your-face. I have it on LP and an HDtracks flac download. The LP sounds better overall. I listen to my digital through a Sony HAPZ1es.
I just find the content of this release missing somewhat, the strength of the tunes? "So Beautiful..." has a great collection of material.
I HAVE noticed that transferring files to the HAP is better executed using LAN than wifi. It's faster for one, and secondly it's less prone to bandwidth issues than when I wifi them. (Can "wifi" be a verb, too?) I've noticed that there are burps in many of the tracks that went via wifi. It could be my imagination but I'll swear to it.
I use Tidal, iTunes, HDtracks and Amazon to hear stuff now because there are but a handful of stores remaining to do so in person. A couple of hours doing that and you'll hear the differences on all the recordings. It's just there.
Happy listening, peeps!
