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I am not quite sure what is going on but wherever is going on is wrong. I was listening this morning Shostakovich’s second cello concerto by Berlin and Rostropovich and I detected that something was not right. It was too direct and “too stereo”, if I might say so. It has no of that smoky sound that is almost mandatory for any cello concerto. The Rostropovich was too prominent, not imaging- or volume-wise but the contrast-wise, it did not make sense…

I decided to close up the back chambers in my Fundamental Channels. It was interesting result. The hi-fi-quality of the recording move down, the articulation of the cello become slightly murkier and the Berlin Philharmonic’s Sound got more ambient and creamier but at the same time the entire play got more sensible, more united.  The lower midrange region become not “too sexy” but instead more dissolves in the rest of the music.

Go figure… I deseeded to close up the S2 back chamber for now and to put any further experiments on hold…

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