Follow your own advice


I’ve written about this before, but sometimes I don’t follow my own advice.
I was playing an SACD which I expected to sound great,
but unfortunately it was shrill and lacking in bass.
I despaired of it sounding good, but then I remembered I have a
correcting tool in my system I never use but have highly touted: the Schiit Loki.
With a few knob turns, the SACD came to life, sounding wonderful.
No artificiality, just great sound.
Great device……

If you use it!
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It was not a transfer.
It was a recent Japanese export Exton SACD of Prokofiev’s “Romeo and Juliet” ballet conducted by Vladimir Ashkenazy with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.
I have no idea why it sounds the way it does.
Sometimes music is tipped up in mastering in order to present a more dramatic difference on first listening, but it quickly becomes tiresome after the dust settles.  Assuming it was a hybrid, did the redbook layer sound any better?