In Reply to: Hirez Highway used to about SACD sounding great. Now posted by oldmkvi on July 2, 2014 at 19:47:25:
The Emperor's new clothes? You are right when the preponderance of opinion is against you? Yeah, that happens on occasion, but not as often as romantic myths might have you believe. Before accepting such a conclusion, you need to stop and think. Is there something else going on, like maybe a component or system issue? Or, are you just into your own head and biases so much that it distorts your honest perception.
I do not know what kind of music you listen to, and that might be a factor. But, are you saying that the CD layer sounds better than the DSD stereo layer of the same recording after level matching? It might be hard to level match exactly on musical material, but you might start there. Try that with a Radio Shack meter. It is well known that people generally prefer the louder of two sources, but not always if distortion or other aberrations occur.
Personally, with a good CD player, I was never sold on the magnitude of improvement stereo SACD provided. But, I cannot say CD was better. To the contrary. The main reason for my support of SACD is multichannel, which is a whole lot better than stereo. That is not even close for music.
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- RE: Hirez Highway used to about SACD sounding great. Now - Fitzcaraldo215 08:01:11 07/03/14 (14)
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