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In the Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity.
Post Subject: Good; Bad; Not Good/Not BadPosted by Paul S on: 12/24/2009
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This year marks the first serious inroads of the new "Smart Grid" system around here. Blah, blah, blah, blah...
What this has meant in terms of hi-fi is fewer really bad days - and fewer really good days. Since I've taken care of VTA my basis has gone up with respect to sound, per se, and there is less that is really rotten in those terms, anymore. Still, most days bass and complex fare are rather nebulous and it is tough to read intent. The fine nuances of expression and dialog, alike, are somewhat fuzzy and too hard to hear to really just enter a piece and relax, most of the time, when what I want is a Real Art Fix.
I spent some time this year thinking of "system shortfalls" and strategies for vaulting them. And today the electricity was unusually good and it just changed my perspective entirely.
The funny thing is, I presently think that consistent electricity is critical to building a musical hi-fi. But if consistency is yet variable mediocrity, then how to approach this?
Perhaps this is the key to "regenerators" for most of us, to simply raise the level of predictable mediocrity somewhat and go on from there.
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