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Re: Let's talk Miles (and SACD)

Just a few thoughts.
We are obviously coming from different directions. If I had 29 Miles LPs and a good collection overall, not to mention a TNT, I doubt I would have been drawn to SACD. If so, it wouldn't have been for audible reasons. I recently bought the Scout, which granted is no TNT, but no slouch either.

I can't account for your preference for the CD over the SACD, except to wonder if you were selecting for a preference of something else (polarity? level?--the CDs are generally mastered louder, esp KoB) that wasn't properly controlled. But even that is a weak hypothesis because on my system (SCD-1->VAC Avatar->Nautilus 802 via Goertz MI2) the SACDs destroy the CDs in all areas regardless of precise attention to polarity or setting level. I can't think of any area CD does better than SACD, unless you prefer that unnatural, "etched" quality that CD does so well. Or the paper-thin quality of the soundstage I associate with CD that sounds like it is on the verge of shattering at high volumes.

Vinyl does things better than SACD. I do not dispute that. Particularly soundstage holistics and top-to-bottom smoothness/natural timbres, but that's only vinyl done right. Vinyl done poorly (which is much better represented than those done right in my collection) is a horror that makes even the worst SACDs in my collection seem heavenly, those being the Higgins and Beirach titles from Venus' first batch.

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