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New Pro - SQ for classical music
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In my experience the better a system as a whole gets/the better balanced it becomes the better both poor and excellent recordings will sound. And with better I mean lower noise and distortion and more true to the source. Of course I don't mean any artificial coloring or emphasis on certain frequencies like for example the upper mids/highs giving a false sense of detail which can cause listener fatique.

With lower noise and distortion comes an increased transparency and IMO unfortunately this has a side effect, the contrast between great and poor recordings becomes more distinct as well. What I think happens is we get "used" very quickly to higher quality and are then easily disappointed and dissatisfied listening to those lesser recordings/productions.

My Pro is not here yet so I don't know yet how it will change (and hopefully) improve SQ but I suspect the above may be the case, could be completely wrong in my assessment as well of course! Smile

It's unfortunate you didn't get to listen/get to know the SQ of these recordings before on the non pro. That would of course have given some pointers as to what changed (if it did) and how much plus why.

Personally I don't think anything is wrong with Redbook 44.1/16 but surely digital recording/engineering and production techniques have improved massively since the 80's. I'm quite sure there's no way any preferences/tuning/discrimination/tayloring is applicable here in reproduction. The processing/reconstruction of the bitstream is in effect done by a "computer" and bits are really just bits here at this stage. But of course we'd have to ask a DSP specialist to be really sure.
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New Pro - SQ for classical music - by arcam - 07-Nov-2016, 21:28
RE: New Pro - SQ for classical music - by Inox - 07-Nov-2016, 21:57
RE: New Pro - SQ for classical music - by Inox - 07-Nov-2016, 22:03
RE: New Pro - SQ for classical music - by Antoine - 08-Nov-2016, 00:12
RE: New Pro - SQ for classical music - by Will - 08-Nov-2016, 02:36
New Pro - SQ for classical music - by no32 - 08-Nov-2016, 22:30
New Pro - SQ for classical music - by no32 - 08-Nov-2016, 22:32
New Pro - SQ for classical music - by no32 - 08-Nov-2016, 22:37
RE: New Pro - SQ for classical music - by Will - 09-Nov-2016, 08:50
RE: New Pro - SQ for classical music - by Axel - 10-Nov-2016, 10:29
RE: New Pro - SQ for classical music - by ogs - 10-Nov-2016, 12:55
RE: New Pro - SQ for classical music - by Axel - 14-Nov-2016, 03:13
RE: New Pro - SQ for classical music - by Inox - 18-Nov-2016, 08:59
RE: New Pro - SQ for classical music - by Inox - 18-Nov-2016, 18:02

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