Example,
i had not listened to the stereophile first test disc in 10 years. However, my system 10 ears later was more revealing than that older system except for the fact that the original system used super highly modified original Quad electrostats.(modified by me....the most extensively modded Quads that i have ever heard of). When I played the disc 10 years later it did not sound right at all....the orchestra, the air, the bell ringing in the backround, the guy singing in Hebrew.....just not right. So, I removed the midrange from its box and put it on top of the speaker and propped it up with a paper back book underneath (no baffle) and changed the xover on the woofer so it now went to 300hz as i knew the midrange driver on an open baffle would not do anything below 300hz. After listening......most all of the difference from what I had remembered 10 years before came alive. Still not quite as good as the old super modified Quad....but now very close....the reverb was going on for ever......before it was all blunted with the midrange in the box.
Yes, indeed you can remember what something sounded like 10 years before. Anyone can do this.....with an open mind and open heart.
i had not listened to the stereophile first test disc in 10 years. However, my system 10 ears later was more revealing than that older system except for the fact that the original system used super highly modified original Quad electrostats.(modified by me....the most extensively modded Quads that i have ever heard of). When I played the disc 10 years later it did not sound right at all....the orchestra, the air, the bell ringing in the backround, the guy singing in Hebrew.....just not right. So, I removed the midrange from its box and put it on top of the speaker and propped it up with a paper back book underneath (no baffle) and changed the xover on the woofer so it now went to 300hz as i knew the midrange driver on an open baffle would not do anything below 300hz. After listening......most all of the difference from what I had remembered 10 years before came alive. Still not quite as good as the old super modified Quad....but now very close....the reverb was going on for ever......before it was all blunted with the midrange in the box.
Yes, indeed you can remember what something sounded like 10 years before. Anyone can do this.....with an open mind and open heart.