so i bought my first real nice stereo this year as a result of some great advice i got in this forum...cambridge 540p amp w/matching phono pre-amp...epos ELS 3 mini-monitors...Rega p1 turntable...used NAD CD player..got speaker stands and positioned them correctly in my study/record room.
So...basically...sounds great. So much better than what I was used to, listening to CDs through my surround sound DVD player in the living room or an old technics receiver/jbl speakers/technics turntable setup or iPod.
So I feel like I'm kind of getting addicted and I keep wanting to buy more stuff. Like I just replaced my cheap feeling felt mat on the rega P1 with a herbie's way awesome record mat II, which got great reviews online...
so I get it in the mail, and i'm sitting there taking it on and off, listening to miles davis, listening to a REALLY beat up copy of sgt. peppers, listening to the new spoon record, listening to a reissue of master of reality by sabbath..all different stuff trying to figure out if the "soundstaging" is better, if the bass is "tighter", if the "noise floor" is lowered, etc etc...and honestly i'm really NOT SURE if i can tell that much of a difference, sometimes I think i hear a great focus and better spacing of instruments in the stereo field, but is it just the placebo effect?
then of course, the rega comes with a pretty cheap cartridge, so I'm thinking "well maybe I need to get a new cartridge so i can hear the detail of the record mat"...or "maybe i should buy one of those rega glass platters, supposed to be better than the MDF one"..
but the funny thing is this ALL sounds 100 times better than before, but somehow now I'm not satisfied, like always thinking about how it could sound better or maybe if I got a better cartridge i wouldn't get that annoying pop that comes up on side 1 of the donald byrd record i just got...i don't know...
so basically long story longer, how do you guys know when new parts or tweaks are really helping or if it's just your imagination and how do you just learn to say it's good enough? i just want to enjoy listening to music and for the most part i AM, but still there's all these nagging doubts...
woah that was long, sorry in advance!
so i bought my first real nice stereo this year as a result of some great advice i got in this forum...cambridge 540p amp w/matching phono pre-amp...epos ELS 3 mini-monitors...Rega p1 turntable...used NAD CD player..got speaker stands and positioned them correctly in my study/record room.
So...basically...sounds great. So much better than what I was used to, listening to CDs through my surround sound DVD player in the living room or an old technics receiver/jbl speakers/technics turntable setup or iPod.
So I feel like I'm kind of getting addicted and I keep wanting to buy more stuff. Like I just replaced my cheap feeling felt mat on the rega P1 with a herbie's way awesome record mat II, which got great reviews online...
so I get it in the mail, and i'm sitting there taking it on and off, listening to miles davis, listening to a REALLY beat up copy of sgt. peppers, listening to the new spoon record, listening to a reissue of master of reality by sabbath..all different stuff trying to figure out if the "soundstaging" is better, if the bass is "tighter", if the "noise floor" is lowered, etc etc...and honestly i'm really NOT SURE if i can tell that much of a difference, sometimes I think i hear a great focus and better spacing of instruments in the stereo field, but is it just the placebo effect?
then of course, the rega comes with a pretty cheap cartridge, so I'm thinking "well maybe I need to get a new cartridge so i can hear the detail of the record mat"...or "maybe i should buy one of those rega glass platters, supposed to be better than the MDF one"..
but the funny thing is this ALL sounds 100 times better than before, but somehow now I'm not satisfied, like always thinking about how it could sound better or maybe if I got a better cartridge i wouldn't get that annoying pop that comes up on side 1 of the donald byrd record i just got...i don't know...
so basically long story longer, how do you guys know when new parts or tweaks are really helping or if it's just your imagination and how do you just learn to say it's good enough? i just want to enjoy listening to music and for the most part i AM, but still there's all these nagging doubts...
woah that was long, sorry in advance!