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In Reply to: The point is, posted by Dave Pogue on May 30, 2007 at 06:19:19:
Where some very good gear was used.....
Like comparing a Walker TT with an Audio Aero Prestige...
And comparing the redbook version with an SACD version on APL's NWO2.5..
And comparing redbook version with the vinyl on an Apollon 40/60/M Turntable with AirTight amps vs both an Accuphase DP-78 and the Meitner.
Or simply comparing the CD vs the SACD on my own APL Denon 3910.
Sure this stuff is just my opinion, - and I may be whack. But that's how I hear them. I'd rather here hiss than mud. My view is that Tambourines are shimmery, sibilant instruments, and I don't want to make them sound "warmer" than they actually are.... For nearly 10 years, I stood beside a drummer who used to beat the hell of out of a 1956 Ludwig Piccolo snare drum, and I have good idea of what that thing sounds like: my head still rings. :-) But that doesn't mean that I'm no more right than anyone else...those are just the things that I hear, and how I hear them.
Conversely: I happen to prefer violins sounding warmer, more luxurious, and less scratchy; I want to hear them that way. Are they colored warm? In my experience, I would say yes, - but then, - I don't have that much experience listening to the real thing....
When i hear the SACD version of JATPS, - it's more closed in, warmer, duller, less extended, with a smaller, packed in soundstage/room venue. When I listen to the XRCD, - it's louder, it's more open, the highs are more extended, the midrange is less full, the soundstage/room is much wider. It's also noisier!! I hear more sibilance, maybe more hiss. But, I'd rather have that as I hear that as more accurate, more real, more realsitic treble instruments, - (ride cymbals), - and a bigger more open space... And after years of playing with junk-assed PAs, in bigger, venues, with PA systems that are too powerful and turned up too high, and boomy bass; the XRCD Redbook takes me to a more realistic frame of reference than the more "manipulated" SACD..
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