Stupid Mistake

I had a cycle cross bike called Jake the snake 

tomic@601

Back in the day when  l was a bouncer at a hometown bar in Canada. I went to work one (1973) night and the and the place was packed when l showed up. All the waiters said to me don't let anyone else in!!! I said what hell is going on?? They said some new band called Rush is playing tonight. My reply was, who the hell is Rush???

It could also be psycho-acoustics. The 116s sounded different to what your ears are used to. You liked that new sound, assigning positive words to the characteristics you liked. Switch back to the 600s and those characteristics were gone. But after a few hours the old patterns you always did like came back to you. 
Like trying out a new chair in the furniture store. Feels great!  Get home, your old chair feels soggy. But an hour into your evening tv and that old friend feels great again. Maybe it needed to warm up a bit too. 

There are those who claim there is no such thing as audio memory, that we cannot exactly recall some song or album we heard for comparison purposes when auditioning components. I disagree - how many of us seniors have played certain albums back in the day so many times we recall every bit of them right down to the symbol splashes and vocalist’s moans?

For me, there are at least a dozen or two classic albums that fit this category but it was brought to the forefront by a recent Japanese boot release of needledrops of 1st US pressings of the first 4 Led Zeppelin albums. Their sound immediately brought back memories of those original US pressings, long gone from my collection, but unequivocally sounding "right" through my Oppo/Hafler/Maggie system. If I were auditioning cables or even components, I doubt I'd have a problem comparing those sounds with these cds choosing between them.

jrwaudio.....Well now!