22-Feb-2016, 22:19
Reading Pim's post about really struck a chord with me. Often in the past I have noticed that some days my system sounds better than others. I put this down to mood, maybe a quirk of the source material, maybe changes in mains quality, who knows.
However, my listening patterns are probably fairly similar to Pim's at the moment, that is more or less weekends only. One week ago, the Devialets were on for maybe three hours on Saturday, that was it until this weekend just gone. This weekend I listened to a selection of music, for maybe four hours in total. Saturday was one of those days where the sound quality niggles you a bit, a little harsh, maybe more digital, just not quite there. On Sunday, again more listening. The thing is, on Sunday, everything sounded terrific. OK this was not careful A/B testing, and different music was being played, but everything sounded great, even the stuff where I know the actual source material is not that good was still a good listen despite this. How big was this difference? Maybe in the region of dual mono vs single box stereo. I didn't think to much about this, putting down to being just one of those things, but then reading Pim's post I realise that we have experienced exactly the same thing. OK, this might be a one off coincidence from my side, but I will be keeping an eye (ear) on this one in the future, to see if there is some kind of repeatable pattern.
However, my listening patterns are probably fairly similar to Pim's at the moment, that is more or less weekends only. One week ago, the Devialets were on for maybe three hours on Saturday, that was it until this weekend just gone. This weekend I listened to a selection of music, for maybe four hours in total. Saturday was one of those days where the sound quality niggles you a bit, a little harsh, maybe more digital, just not quite there. On Sunday, again more listening. The thing is, on Sunday, everything sounded terrific. OK this was not careful A/B testing, and different music was being played, but everything sounded great, even the stuff where I know the actual source material is not that good was still a good listen despite this. How big was this difference? Maybe in the region of dual mono vs single box stereo. I didn't think to much about this, putting down to being just one of those things, but then reading Pim's post I realise that we have experienced exactly the same thing. OK, this might be a one off coincidence from my side, but I will be keeping an eye (ear) on this one in the future, to see if there is some kind of repeatable pattern.
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