In article z,
The Devil wrote:

On Tue, 07 Sep 2004 16:57:49 GMT, MINe 109
wrote:

On Tue, 07 Sep 2004 17:11:02 +0100, The Devil wrote:

And it sounds like a couple of cats making out in the moonlight. The
female might be singing in kitty language 'Barbed Love Makes my Eyes
Water'. I'm sorry, I have no idea what I'm talking about. Goodnight.

Would be worse if you did know what cat love was like!

I mean day.

Attempt to confuse day for night noted. :-)

Its like a man with rainbows didnt say llook, cake, over there
Stephene or watever you call yourself, today, and you'll never want to
play with the girls again when I am younger, about sixteen. The good
news is never hadn't.

Just finished some casual Arcam vs AMC listening. The disc used was the
EG remaster "Compact King Crimson". Not scientific, but I took the
trouble to move a cd player from one room to another.

I started by sampling the tracks on the bedroom system: Pioner 563, Linn
Kabers. While there were some pleasant bits to this, it was typical
midfi, harsh treble being the worst offender, contributing to a
fatiguing sound.

After a break, the disc and I returned to the Arcam/Quad system. The
heavens opened and the recorded thoughts of Robert Fripp implanted
themselves directly onto my consciousness. I tried to concentrate on the
earlier tracks because that seems to be what Scott would like best on
the collection. There was a sense of compression (peak limiting) to the
early eighties stuff that I assumed part of the recording. The opening
to "Heartbeat" was striking for its big reverberant soundstage. What
the Pioneer universal player presented as cardboard and pie tins was
revealed as a drum kit. The high-pitched backbeat'chirps' in "Hearbeat"
were in their proper place.

Putting my AMC in the big system was a surprise as it sounded
immediately different. The top seemed closed in, but the biggest
difference was a warm mid-bass. The treble had unexpected peaks: I'll
not want to hear "20th Century Schizoid Man" on this system again. My
sense was one of compression, almost like the cliche of lp sound: warm
bass, inner 'detail', dullish sound.

I found the AMC to be relatively 'murky' in accompanying chord
instruments in the early recordings. I could hear individual pitches in
"Schizoid Man" and "Epitaph" on the Arcam, but not so clearly on the
AMC.

It's too bad I don't have the same players as Scott. I doubt that AMC
has a house sound as such, while I would guess that the CD23 would
resemble the 92, only better. I can't guess why my impressions were so
opposite Scott's. I wonder if the AMC 9 is a much better player than my
8b. I suppose I could try the AMC balanced output with a passive volume
control running the NAD amp section, but I'd have to be even more bored
and with more time on my hands to do actually do it.

Enjoy,

Stephen