Tekton Double Impacts

I know I'll love the SE's teajay. I've loved every pair of Tekton speakers I've owned. The Enzo's and DI's are amazing and I'm ready to be blown away yet again with the SE's. I look forward to sharing my impressions of all of the new toys coming in. My MZ and Aric amp arrive Tuesday! My Sablon digital cable will arrive next week also. It will be a good week. 

Hfaddict, take Eric up on his offer and you'll be greatly rewarded. Your room looks great, but could use some help acoustically. As someone mentioned earlier, thick drapes over all that glass will do wonders, along with something on the wall between the speakers. Hell, why am I offering suggestions when you can get the help you need directly from Eric himself? 

@mac48025   Tom, that's wonderful news....Congratulations on your decision to get a pair of the SEs!!! You are building a very sweet system.

Looking forward to comparing notes.

@hfaddict - What is it that you understand about about compressed vs. non-compressed music? 

It's true, from my findings, so far, that the DIs do not artificially goose the bass, as they are more of a pure transducer. However, they are also monsters when it comes to bringing out the dynamics inherent in any recording. 

This brings us full circle to compression, as digital compression used in modern mastering (whether it's remastering an older recording or a newer one) kills dynamics. The human ear is not designed to hear everything at one level in a recording, because the ear/brain is naturally inclined to take in dynamic stimuli, as we experience it in our world around us. 

To that end, I'm simply trying to get clarification, only because, as a general rule, digital compression, especially in the mastering phase of a recording = bad. 

The "weaker" compression heard in some classic rock recordings can generally be attributed to mastering engineers, at the time, being taught to use compression sparingly in the mastering phase to keep the dynamics of a recording. In other words, what you hear as a lack of bass is what you're suppose to hear, because that's the way it was recorded...and then mastered accordingly. Take that same recording, and then put it in the hands of a hamfisted modern mastering engineer, and he'll probably get you that louder bass from the recording, but it cuts out the artistic integrity inherent in the original master. 

Of course there is also analog compression, via tubes, which can also be abused, e. g. The Kinks early Pye recordings, The Beatles Revolver, etc., but those are outliers. 

For me, I have to get my DIs off the floor, because I've heard from many that I'm simply not get a realistic bass response from them, no matter what music they're playing. So, I'm investing in some platforms. This might help you get a more desirable bass performance from your older classic rock. 

Dig? 

(Excuse any typos, as I am on my phone) 

Conducting a 4 cable (USB) shoot-out / comparison.

Advice on how to go about this?

Thanks.