Testing your system


In testing your system, check whether the musical message is coming through rather than looking for sonic perfection.

 I find that is the key to fulfillment.

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[Intro]
Oh
Can you hear me now?
Can you hear me now?
Can you hear me now?
Can you hear me now?
Yeeeh (oh)
Am I coming through?
Am I coming through?
Is this sweet and pure and true?
[Chorus]
Oh, are you hearing me
Like I'm hearing you?
Oh, are you hearing me
Like I'm hearing you?

....excerpts from The Test; The Chemical Brothers...

Although based upon 'another sort of experience', presently coming back into...

....well, 'application' v. 'popularity' would be more 'correct', but....given current circumstances perhaps not totally surprising.....😒

...music as an hatch, marked Escape.....

At some point in the search for 'audio Nirvanna', a well tuned system stops being a reproduction of a recording and becomes a musical performance in and of itself.

It's a balancing act. Musicality for the heart first but it has to please my ears too. Hence, for music lacking in recording quality, I use the loki max for digital sources and the Puffin for my secondary TT. My primary TT is the only source I can't equalize, because I don't need to. I only play top recordings there, about a third of my LPs.