That Vintage Feel part 3: The Music Presentation

That's The Blogmaster at the emperor's throne..................

In part3 which is an extension of the earlier 2 parts article of the same topic, I will like to touch on the type of music that the owner like to listen to and what he may replay for his visitors to listen. Even at the time of writing of this part3 article, Koo has already decided on not keeping the QUAD 306, he has always surprised me with his choices of equipments. So I could only guess that he is working on some changes to his setup. Could he be getting an amplifier more powerful than the already very listenable QUAD 306? That I have to wait to see. So at the moment I get to listen to the diyed 0.75w darling amplifier a few more times before I decided to write this part3 article. What I listened now of the 0.75w darling amplifier is one of more tweaks being done to it in the last few months. If that is not enough there were more tweaks to the non oversampling dac, since it's undergoing listening tests I'm can only say the detail/nature of the tweaks is along the signal path. What I perceived is a change, depends who is listening so it may or may not be that person's idea of an improvement. Firstly I noticed the highs(I hear more of it) have improved over the period, this was also being reported by other visitors who came several times over that same period. And I perceived the bass presentation is more controlled,whereas others who listen often may only want to consider this insignificant and that only more bass weight as a significant improvement. So different listeners may give credits quite differently! Here I gave him points just for better bass control, not alot of bass sound, just enough to get by. How do I know this? I heard the replay of track 6 of the Dream of the Opera CD, as I said not a lot of heart thumping bass, nothing that shake the chair I sat on, nothing to move my stomach fat around the middle, just bass sound that I'm comfortable with.But hey, that's my poison I guess! Other tracks I heard replayed include the last track of the Manger Demonstration Disc, again just about enough to get by, nothing in the room vibrated in unison with the drums and bass sound. Perhaps it's not anybody's idea of bass sound, but I would give him some marks for trying at it rather than just talk to some 'armchair critics' at some forums and can't do any 'transfer of technology' to improve the sound of his setup even after much discussions! Do I have to repeat that the vocals come around very nicely, if not lustfully with female vocals and with enough details on the male vocals? Now, now don't get me wrong that is superlative, there are many other setups with even more mesmerising vocals than this setup, but I'm just looking at the price point of a few thousand ringgit to get me glued to the chair long enough to be 'seduced' by the sound and not want to get up and go! At least not yet after a mere hour of listening in front of the setup! Another thing I like about the setup is how the hue of the afternoon sun bath the room with that yellowish tint we know so well! A lovely feeling of sort. What a wonderful listening experience I thought with a wash of beautiful colour mix of yellow to orange hue to feast the eye too! Yes the room was not to be darken for those afternoon listening sessions. It's always being enjoyable listening sessions whenever I listen, whether in the daylight hours or at night.