Anybody else gone through the experience where you upgrade your system, only to find it has made some of your favorite music at the time a lot less enjoyable, and some of your less liked music much more enjoyable, effectively changing your favorite tunes?
I've just gone through this. Prior to upgrading my source/amp, I was listening to a lot of punk/pop-punk (Millencolin, Blink 182, Sum 41, Treble Charger, Alkaline Trio, etc.), not the most audiophile stuff, mostly poorly recorded, but I was loving it. Got my new gear, and now it's almost hard to listen to some of the older stuff (specifically Blink's really old stuff, as well as New Found Glory's first few albums), everything just seems so undetailed and boring, and on NFG's stuff the midrange almost seems non-existent (like the recessed mids of my Denons have been highlighted, looks like markl mod time!).
But then I go and listen to stuff from Jack's Mannequin, Cage the Elephant, Breaking Benjamin, Coheed and Cambria, Rise Against, A Day to Remember, and Billy Talent, which were some of my less listened-to bands, and everything sounds simply AMAZING with the exception of a few early recordings.
So anybody else had this experience? It's a little bit of awesome mixed with a little bit of awful for me, but I'm sure I'll adapt and learn to love the poorly recorded stuff regardless.
I've just gone through this. Prior to upgrading my source/amp, I was listening to a lot of punk/pop-punk (Millencolin, Blink 182, Sum 41, Treble Charger, Alkaline Trio, etc.), not the most audiophile stuff, mostly poorly recorded, but I was loving it. Got my new gear, and now it's almost hard to listen to some of the older stuff (specifically Blink's really old stuff, as well as New Found Glory's first few albums), everything just seems so undetailed and boring, and on NFG's stuff the midrange almost seems non-existent (like the recessed mids of my Denons have been highlighted, looks like markl mod time!).
But then I go and listen to stuff from Jack's Mannequin, Cage the Elephant, Breaking Benjamin, Coheed and Cambria, Rise Against, A Day to Remember, and Billy Talent, which were some of my less listened-to bands, and everything sounds simply AMAZING with the exception of a few early recordings.
So anybody else had this experience? It's a little bit of awesome mixed with a little bit of awful for me, but I'm sure I'll adapt and learn to love the poorly recorded stuff regardless.
