Dear Thuchan: ++++ " audiophile nirvana which we all of the AHEE community will never reach .... " ++++
No, I never said that. What I said is that there is an alternative to enrich that today Nirvana you have: lowering system distortions.
I posted two steps that helps about but certainly there are others that we have " walk ".
Now, one important subject is: how can I know that I'm really lowering the system distortions or in the right road?
There are some ways to do it. One of them is:
listen to digital, CD ( redbook ) in a decent/latest CD player. You need to buy titles as these Original Soundtracks:
1492 Conquest of Paradise ( Vangelis ), The Thin Red Line,
Memories of a Geisha and Gladiator. There are more but those is a good point to start.
Listen to those digital recordings and through the time ( working on system up dates. ) as you " accept " in better way ( enjoying really. ) what you are listening as better is your system quality performance and for sure your enjoyment to analog playback.
Digital has its own kind of distortions different from the analog ones and that's why permit and serve as a tool to improve our analog listening.
When an audio system has low distortions even those kind of digital recordings are not only listenable but you can enjoy it easily. Now, you have to enjoy it not only at low or " normal " SPL but at not-normal/high SPL, this is very important to test/experience because at high SPL; you will know about those distortions.
Normally are high distortions the ones that preclude that we can hear ( with out risk. ) the system at high SPL.
If today listening to those recordings is a " torture " for your ears then you have a big big system land to improve.
There are other tools that will serve you to know where you are " seated " in that lower distortion quest. Latter I can post about.
Regards and enjoy the music,
R.
