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That can be a shock.

Posted by Bob Neill (D) on September 6, 2013 at 07:32:58

In Reply to: RE: Ask him about his new favorite. Nt posted by Bob Neill on September 6, 2013 at 06:24:39:

One last word and I do apologize for Tocaro having taken over this thread: you can blame a little of that on Frihed if you like.

The nature of the shock on returning to more traditional sounding speakers:

What some people want in their speakers’ sound is a thickness, fullness, weightiness, sense of avoirdupois. This is not a quality of ‘live’ music but it substitutes for something in live music that domestic audio can’t retrieve, something having to do with scale and the physics of large spaces being filled with live instruments.

Tocaros do not have thickness or fullness. If we are used to having that, we miss it, at least for a while. When we return to our traditional sounding speakers, we get the fullness but we also sense that we’re now missing something that the Tocaros gave us. A more direct apprehension of the instruments. The fullness now feels like something that is between us and the instruments that we have to hear through. Once we readjust to having the fullness and having less of the direct sound of instruments, most of us are fine. That is, after all, what we're used to. But speaking for myself, you don't ever quite hear your favorites the same again. The Tocaros have made you more objective about what your speakers are doing and what they're not. They have made you a critical listener of your own stuff.

I'm still fond of Reynauds and Audio Notes and don't expect them to leave the house. But I now have the mixed blessing of knowing what they're about. It makes me a better salesman for my customers because I know what they're hearing in relation to what they say they want. But I'm now somewhat less a preacher and more of an advisor.

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