Sheffield Lab on super-high-end system

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My headphone system is now pretty good -- better dynamics (micro- and macro-), better extension, better PRaT, all better than I thought possible from redbook digital. My main headphones are the Auduze LCD-2, and everything in the whole system is custom modified by K Works. (I'm a fan of his work.)

I have arrived at a curiosity. For years I've enjoyed my Sheffield Lab CDs as possessing greater extension and resolution, PRaT, dynamics, etc. than common-variety classical recordings from Decca, Philips, etc. So I figured by the time I get all this amazing equipment going, Sheffield Lab recordings will benefit along with everything else and will be jaw-dropping. But this is not the case. Sheffield Lab recordings don't sound that much better. Or even that much different. Take something like "Power of Tower." (The CD version.) It's obvious that the brass has "life on top" -- much greater extension than an average studio recording, a quality that is evident on even a crummy system. My current headphone system can take an average CD (say by Telarc) and put a lot of extra life on top, in a natural way. (Makes it sound like analog.) So what happens to the Tower of Power when dropped into my dream system? Well, mostly it sounds the same. One hears the extension but it doesn't seem particularly greater or less than before. It sounds a little rough and in some sense less natural than the extension which can be coaxed out of a Telarc or Philips recording.

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Topic - Sheffield Lab on super-high-end system - mike1127 06:34:29 06/17/12 (8)

RE: Sheffield Lab CD's are now quite long in the tooth - Tedmc 12:26:07 06/17/12 (2)

Disagree - Tony Lauck 10:44:41 06/18/12 (1)

Better yet - Ozzie 13:40:09 06/19/12 (0)

One of the greatest assets of the Sheffield... - mkuller 12:10:10 06/17/12 (2)

I have a few - G Squared 11:06:48 06/18/12 (0)

RE: One of the greatest assets of the Sheffield... - russ69 21:01:40 06/17/12 (0)

RE: Sheffield Lab on super-high-end system - SgreenP@MSN.com 09:16:43 06/17/12 (0)

The magic of Sheffield is the Direct to Disc - barryb 09:05:31 06/17/12 (0)

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