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In Reply to: RE: You can use either SRC upsampling option (-145 or -121). More on 128bit... posted by cics on November 17, 2008 at 07:09:59
Dear cics,There has been so much progress with your approach, though even from the start (AOB) what this was able to do was so plainly obvious, the ability to deliver a complex waveform intact, still is the best way for me to describe what is the basis of what makes cMP great. You have added much goodness to the basic platform as time has gone on. To those of us who cannot wait to try the latest version, as with any evolving thing, there were improvements in one area and, maybe, a diminution of "goodness" in another area. Some iterations were more balanced in the hits and misses department than others.
I have enjoyed listening to all of them, except when I was without a working MB. This has been a learning experience, as trite as that phrase is. One has learned to listen more carefully and has learned what to listen FOR.
There is no question this latest one is a sort of culmination and more.
One has become so used to incremental improvements than when faced with a big improvement one tends to doubt what they are hearing. It is so easy to exaggerate differences in any component, and in our case software implementation. In my case, I have made the case obtuse by implementing two very important hardware modifications at the same time. Nonetheless, I think there is some kind of synergistic synchronicity in the appearance of this latest evolution of cics's project and being spurred on to remove the break-out cable from JULI@ and Bernd's suggestion to lower the voltage within the ANTEC EA-430. Of course, this built upon the worthwhile improvements brought about by Alfred's suggestion to add bypass capacitance to JULI@ and the MB. None of the mods, I presume, would have ANY (or much) meaning without the platform provided by cics. Inversely, these mods have brought out even more of the goodness offered by cMP squared.
All in all, at this point in time, and as we know cics never sleeps, who knows what he will discover next, but the quality of sound coming out of these unlikely devices is simply extraordinary.
Over the weekend I am hearing tiny details never heard before in recordings I have listened to hundreds of times on various CD playback systems and a variety of LP playback systems. There they are, vocal inflections I have never noticed. Quick as lightening grace notes from guitars and violins I simply never noticed before. I think to myself that I am merely WANTING this to be so. How could I have missed such details, I assure myself I just forgot they were there. And yet, this keeps happening.
I am listening to one of my favorite albums to play at blistering levels,
PIXIES - Surfer Rosa. And even here I am hearing little things Joey Santiago is doing with his tone and inflection. I hear details in Kim Deal's bass lines I never noticed before. This is NOT a subtle album and yet it abounds in subtleties never heard before. I am hearing useful musical information that was obscured before, not shuffling feet or extraneous breaths.Plenty has been said of the beauty of the high frequencies and the thunderous tuneful bass; not that there has been a lack of midrange information and musicality, it is just that there is an astonishing quality to the midrange now.
Simply amazing.
Thanks,
Rick McInnis
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