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I'll reread Geddes, Cheever, et al. a few more times

Meanwhile my class D sounds better than what I've heard before. Albeit it's a different sound than, say, the Monarchys.

In the range of equipment I can afford to listen to, the class D has the cleanest, airiest sound I've heard. That's all I can say -- except that with live music instruments and voices cans sound strident: violins squeaky, brass shrill, etc. It's valid that recorded music might sound that way too. On the other hand I feel there is a lot of bad recording practice. My theory is that there's too much close-mic'ing in a misguided or inept attempt to capture all instrument timbres. However the sound you hear at typical audience distances is not what you hear a couple of feet from the instrument.

So like I said, on the best recording my latest class D amp sounds best; while with some crappy recordings the Monarchy was better precisely because it masked the accurate recorded sound in aid of a "warmer" presentation.


Dmitri Shostakovich

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