"..a bit like comparing a beautifully designed, gloss black electric violin, with a slightly battered Stradivarious. One causes your jaw to fall open in awe; the other has you in tears. Give me the latter every time."
You wrote this in your upgrade post. When I saw the Czech national symphony perform The Beatles this was the case. Full, rich wonderfully evocative sound that pushed me to tears three of four times. Had to hide it.
That's what I want all the time. With that said, and I have said it more than once here:
I now know the absolute most important thing in all of this is that the quality of the recording itself makes the most difference. IMO no amount of money spent on fancy equipment or so called hi-res tracks can change the original recording. You can put perfume on a pig but it's still a pig.
So that's why my real plan is, with technology changing so fast, to take a bit of a wait and see approach. I will also wait on the external DAC and turn my attention to the music for awhile.
My logical thought process works backward. Because with amps and speakers I can hear an immediate and pronounced difference, I would change that first. As I mentioned before in regard to diminshing returns, will I get 4 times the sound from the Linn majik to the Bluesound? No chance. Plus there is the technological change of pace idea. So that leads me to speakers and amp. The same law of diminshing returns applies still, but I think the differences in sound are greater. Not by multiples of course, but greater. I've heard some twenty different souces over the last month and nothing was earth shatteringly better. The Naim nd5 was the most expensive and the sonos the least.
Mainly, the Boenicke is really just intriguing because of the engineering. The price though, here is where the WAF factor would go way up. Plus they are untenable with a two-year old walking around. Something more realistic might be the Special 40s or a floorstander. My next session with floorstanders will be in two weeks. The only ones I remember are the focal aria and the sonus faber 3.0. He has two more for me i just can't recall the names. I don't want to go above 3500, and I am in no rush, because you know I love my LS50s. I won't sell them anyway, so I would probably just leave them up next to a floor stander and switch for fun!
And yes, I know I can use an upgrade in the amplifier department, but I can't get anything for the A39 it or at least not much. I hear you both when you talk about system matching. I rolled the dice with LS50s and Kef's and got lucky since I bought both without hearing them. Yet I read enough about them being put together in demos, and I also own an old A75 Diva. I've always been a loyalty guy--stick with what you know works. Matching for a non-audiophile is hard, but that's why I have you fellows.
You wrote this in your upgrade post. When I saw the Czech national symphony perform The Beatles this was the case. Full, rich wonderfully evocative sound that pushed me to tears three of four times. Had to hide it.
That's what I want all the time. With that said, and I have said it more than once here:
I now know the absolute most important thing in all of this is that the quality of the recording itself makes the most difference. IMO no amount of money spent on fancy equipment or so called hi-res tracks can change the original recording. You can put perfume on a pig but it's still a pig.
So that's why my real plan is, with technology changing so fast, to take a bit of a wait and see approach. I will also wait on the external DAC and turn my attention to the music for awhile.
My logical thought process works backward. Because with amps and speakers I can hear an immediate and pronounced difference, I would change that first. As I mentioned before in regard to diminshing returns, will I get 4 times the sound from the Linn majik to the Bluesound? No chance. Plus there is the technological change of pace idea. So that leads me to speakers and amp. The same law of diminshing returns applies still, but I think the differences in sound are greater. Not by multiples of course, but greater. I've heard some twenty different souces over the last month and nothing was earth shatteringly better. The Naim nd5 was the most expensive and the sonos the least.
Mainly, the Boenicke is really just intriguing because of the engineering. The price though, here is where the WAF factor would go way up. Plus they are untenable with a two-year old walking around. Something more realistic might be the Special 40s or a floorstander. My next session with floorstanders will be in two weeks. The only ones I remember are the focal aria and the sonus faber 3.0. He has two more for me i just can't recall the names. I don't want to go above 3500, and I am in no rush, because you know I love my LS50s. I won't sell them anyway, so I would probably just leave them up next to a floor stander and switch for fun!
And yes, I know I can use an upgrade in the amplifier department, but I can't get anything for the A39 it or at least not much. I hear you both when you talk about system matching. I rolled the dice with LS50s and Kef's and got lucky since I bought both without hearing them. Yet I read enough about them being put together in demos, and I also own an old A75 Diva. I've always been a loyalty guy--stick with what you know works. Matching for a non-audiophile is hard, but that's why I have you fellows.
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