02-04-2025 Post does not mapped to Knowledge Tree Romy the Cat Boston, MA Posts 10,284 Joined on 05-28-2004 Post #: 1 Post ID: 27946 Reply to: 27946 What TRULY high-audio playback can do. "I wish I could score everything for horns." - Richard Wagner. "Our writing equipment takes part in the forming of our thoughts." - Friedrich Nietzsche

02-06-2025 Post does not mapped to Knowledge Tree Romy the Cat Boston, MA Posts 10,284 Joined on 05-28-2004 Post #: 2 Post ID: 27947 Reply to: 27946 How the power of “X” is delivered… Bill reports that during the listening of his playback that day, he experienced heart palpitations. He might be very much trusted in it as he is a medical doctor. It is very interesting. His playback did produce something new. The fact that this new “x-factor” has a different impact on me and Bill is fine and irrelevant at this point. The key question to me is the following: this “something new” was encoder in sound sometimes or was it delivered by other non-sonic properties? "I wish I could score everything for horns." - Richard Wagner. "Our writing equipment takes part in the forming of our thoughts." - Friedrich Nietzsche

02-06-2025 Post does not mapped to Knowledge Tree Paul S San Diego, California, USA Posts 2,719 Joined on 10-12-2006 Post #: 3 Post ID: 27949 Reply to: 27947 Electro-Mechanical Play of Differences vs. Musical Umami Somehow there is enough Musical information encoded on LP or CD that we can access and activate it to distinguish one Musical program from another. We might be able to tweak our system to increase the range of Music our system can render, also the clarity with which it renders Music, also the consistency with which the system can do its thing. On "another front", we may have "heightened experiences" while listening to playback. These experiences tend to be fleeting, and they may be elusive, as well, and I have not found or isolated any variable or variables that I can activate to enjoy certain heightened experiences at will. Bill, I hope you are recovering! Paul S