Miller
my answer was totally serious. I doubt that there was any significant difference in the sounds that your system was emitting on two different occasions. What differed was your reaction to what you were hearing, which can be influenced by many factors, which are specific to you. Unless you can produce some measurements showing that your system is doing different things at different times, this discussion doesn’t go anywhere.
I eventually wound up buying some gear that I hated when I first heard it at Axpona. At the show it was hot, crowded, I had a tiff with my spouse over spending the whole day there, the friend that I had chosen to go with had recently joined a Fundamentalist Church and spent the day proselytizing, the room for the demo was definitely suboptimal...I could kind of get an idea of the sound of the piece, but was so out of sorts that I put off pursuing it. Some time later in the friendly confines of my now sadly out of business dealer I heard the same piece. I recognized the basic sonic signature as I heard at the show but now I was strongly tempted to buy on the spot. I actually had to check myself by wondering if I was being irrationally exuberant due to the completely different circumstances. My dealer let me borrow it for the weekend and listen in my own system, and of course I bought it.
So is it a curse or a blessing that I could recognize that sonic signature over a stretch of time? I suppose a blessing, and it helped drive home that there is a strong element of subjectivity to this hobby that influences perceptions on a given day. Ymmv
my answer was totally serious. I doubt that there was any significant difference in the sounds that your system was emitting on two different occasions. What differed was your reaction to what you were hearing, which can be influenced by many factors, which are specific to you. Unless you can produce some measurements showing that your system is doing different things at different times, this discussion doesn’t go anywhere.
I eventually wound up buying some gear that I hated when I first heard it at Axpona. At the show it was hot, crowded, I had a tiff with my spouse over spending the whole day there, the friend that I had chosen to go with had recently joined a Fundamentalist Church and spent the day proselytizing, the room for the demo was definitely suboptimal...I could kind of get an idea of the sound of the piece, but was so out of sorts that I put off pursuing it. Some time later in the friendly confines of my now sadly out of business dealer I heard the same piece. I recognized the basic sonic signature as I heard at the show but now I was strongly tempted to buy on the spot. I actually had to check myself by wondering if I was being irrationally exuberant due to the completely different circumstances. My dealer let me borrow it for the weekend and listen in my own system, and of course I bought it.
So is it a curse or a blessing that I could recognize that sonic signature over a stretch of time? I suppose a blessing, and it helped drive home that there is a strong element of subjectivity to this hobby that influences perceptions on a given day. Ymmv
