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don't know when I discovered it, but very important to me now

Listen to Paul Simon's "60 ways to leave your lover". If Steve Gadd's drumming doesn't have you bobbing your head, tapping your feet like an early 90's Linn dealer and wanting to get up out of your hot seat listening chair to boogie/shuffle around the room then your system has a PRaT problem.

Tightwad was partially on the ball in that some recordings have loads of PRaT and some are lacking. I'm fairly sure that by poor system matching etc you can suck the PRaT out of a recording that contains it, but you cannot inject PRaT into a recording that lacks it (although you can polish the turd and extract all that was there in the first place, rather than obscuring it further).

To say that it's all in the recording and not at all in the system though, is, in my opnion dead wrong. Even a change of tonearm can change a system from almost nil boogie factor to having loads of fun and involvement. This I know, because I've done it, then changed back, and then to the high PRaT setup again (which means that it's not down to having improved the contact of the connectors by fitting removing the RCA plugs as some might argue).

I'd rather listen to a Mono recording with good PRaT than the best stereo image in the world on a recording that was devoid of PRaT.


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