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In the Thread: The K&K SE hybrid phono stage: a report
Post Subject: At This StagePosted by Paul S on: 9/11/2015
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Yesterday I listened for a few hours again, including Bruckner 7 and a new-to-me, (old) East German, "Chamber" rendition of Ein deutsches Requiem. It has been hot (for here) for several days and electricity was not so good. There were some nice musical moments, but mostly the parts were forward of the whole. There are signs that the "soundstage" will be very nice. The channel separation is more defined now, and the consequence in this case is that everything is better - if my ears are set just right. The "parts forward" thing also made it easy to do some tweaking of my tonearm, since it was fairly easy to differentiate between the cartridge and the arm. To the extent that experience can guide me through this, I will try to be patient and not make too many adjustments to "compensate" for the "raw" new parts. Back to the "soundstage"/ambience, although this has never been way up on my list of things to strive for, it is very nice to have it, especialy for "big" music. However, I still maintain that poorly done sounstage is worse than none. In the case of the K & K, every LP sounds different, and poorly done "ambience" is well noted as such, but it generally gets "separated out" of the music, like surface ticks and pops.
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