This has happened several times to me. What I've found is that the previous system either had some resonances or distorted with loud signals. For example a system that distorts with loud transients will sound bad with wide dynamic range uncompressed music but sound quite good with compressed music. Then you get a system which can handle loud transients well and all of the sudden the stuff that sounded bad before now sounds incredible and the stuff you liked before now sounds flat and boring in comparison.
I had a major issue with that with my vinyl system. At one point I got a screaming good deal on a really good cartridge, installed it and set it up properly and sat down, waiting to be impressed and found most of my favorite LPs now sounded terrible. It eventually turned out that the new cartridge was extracting so much more stuff from the records that other parts of the system couldn't handle it. I had to upgrade several other parts of the system before things really started sounding good again. That bargain cartridge turned out to be a lot more expensive than I thought! (but it did eventually wind up sounding way better than before) John S. -- JohnSwenson ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JohnSwenson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5974 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=82766 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
