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A great high end budget system just took
a great leap forward, despite the challenges of trying
to make a multitude of different brands and tastes of
components sound the same and as true to the original
recording as possible. Somehow, with the expertise of
experience and the knowhow, along with the gift of
ultimate hearing, Adam Sankin was able to extract as
much as possible out of my rig without making it sound
less then what it was.
In other words, I have a $45,000
system that sounds 85% of a system costing at least 3
times as much. Most of the improvement is due to
tweaking, set up, speaker placement, and some critical
upgrades. The lesson here is very simple: No matter how
much you spend on the equipment and the listening room,
and no matter how much you think you know, your system
will never sound right unless you get a seasoned expert
like Adam to bring it all together and make it sing as
one instrument.
Now my system is on par with the best of the best as far
as musicality and neutrality. Most notable are the
differences in the sound and quality of one recording
compared to the next, and the diversity in information
that adds to the illusion of a live event in time. Everything is just much more there, and I am hearing
less system and more of the recording and the space it
was recorded in. I'm no longer thinking in terms of lows,
highs, and mids, but more so hearing the overall front of a
dimensional sound image.
Yes, there is always room
to improve, such as dynamics, ultimate resolution,
and very deep articulated bass, but after all this is
the HIGH END, so the journey has just begun. So how is
that as incentive to go to work and do your best to earn
more, so you can get closer to the music? This is a
noble cause after all. |
