BEST-EVER-sounding music system this WE - jeffreybehr - OTL Asylum

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BEST-EVER-sounding music system this WE

jeffreybehr

Every once in a while--maybe once per year, when the sun and the moon and all the other planets and stars...and my nasal congestion...and my hearingaids, etc., are aligned--I find that my music-reproduction system sounds better than ever.. This Saturday evening, it happened again, and I have to write that the system sounded better than it EVER has in about 65 years of being an audiofool.. The music was Edward Elgar's Organ Sonata, o. 28 (orchestrated by Gordon Jacobs), Richard Hickox conducting the BBC National O. of Wales, recorded by Chandos (in multichannel, of course) and released on SACD CHSA 5049.. BEST...EVER.
Frontend is still an Oppo '203 discplayer driving via HDMI my Marantz '8805 pre/pro. Mid-fi frontend? Maybe.. Backend is still the Serenity Super-7s with their humble AQ GO-4 speakercables.
Changes in my system from the last best-ever event? Surely the biggest difference is the return of my Atma-Sphere MA-1 v.3.1 poweramps but this time with a additional main-PS bypass caps and also after replacing a few slightly noisy output tubes.* Other changes are the inclusion of AudioQuest's best interconnects, Dragon balanced (XLRs).. These 3- and 5-meter singles are quite expensive, but now I know that they're worth every penny.
I've been experimenting with several SETs recently, but I'll be selling them soon.

* I use Russian Winged-C 6H13Cs and in the frontend a mix of Tung-Sol round-plate 6SN7GTs and BRIMAR curved-plate CV1988s.

Edits: 11/29/22 12/04/22

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Topic - BEST-EVER-sounding music system this WE - jeffreybehr 15:03:01 11/28/22 (14)

RE: BEST-EVER-sounding music system this WE - bk12 15:21:25 12/29/22 (1)

This pair was YOURS?!?! (NT) - jeffreybehr 21:26:50 12/29/22 (0)

RE: BEST-EVER-sounding music system this WE - acres verde 10:16:50 11/29/22 (11)

Certainly of the 4 30-to-60-Watt SETs I tried... - jeffreybehr 15:58:06 11/29/22 (10)

RE: Certainly of the 4 30-to-60-Watt SETs I tried... - cellailuca 03:31:25 12/06/22 (1)

RE: Certainly of the 4 30-to-60-Watt SETs I tried... - Retsel 09:18:01 04/02/23 (0)

RE: Certainly of the 4 30-to-60-Watt SETs I tried... - acres verde 07:36:39 11/30/22 (7)

HHR TLS-2s, a Walsh-type full-range system. - jeffreybehr 11:53:10 11/30/22 (6)

RE: HHR TLS-2s, a Walsh-type full-range system. - Sibelius 12:41:37 11/30/22 (5)

omni directional speakers always measure less than their real efficiency. - Ralph 14:17:32 12/01/22 (2)

TY, Ralph.. We'll hear them next week in my musicroom. - jeffreybehr 10:21:28 12/02/22 (1)

Here we are 3 days AFTER 'next week' and still no word... - jeffreybehr 11:22:20 12/12/22 (0)

Don't know; maybe Dale listens at higher levels or... - jeffreybehr 16:33:02 11/30/22 (1)

These several comments on speaker sensitivity, listening levels... - jeffreybehr 11:25:20 12/12/22 (0)

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