Spintricity - EmmLabs Shootout: CDSD/DCC2 versus TSD1/DAC2 Continued(7)

do with very accurate timing and lots of low level information being preserved. Voices real and personal. Harder to ignore voices when they sound like they are right there - before they were kind of buried and blurred into all the other voices.

E. Radiohead - Amnesiac. First track.

Sounds grow and decay in their own little spot. Not swamped by other sounds. Everything, all the many, many sounds Radiohead puts in this [all :-)] song, could be easily followed. Each sounds decay into final nothingness was there to enjoy. It was not swamped by the other sounds. We have heard this song 1000s of times - on all kinds of systems. This is NOT something that we have been able to hear and enjoy before. Yes, it is probably evidence of how Radiohead put the song together on tape. But is sure is entertaining - and adds a whole new dimension to enjoying music. How many times have we all gone to a live show, and just followed one musician\'s playing for awhile, kind of ignoring the other players? This is apparently harder to do on a home audio system than when listening to music live - or at least it was until now.

F. Elton John

Getting late. Very tired. This is the 3rd shootout this evening - [after the earlier ODIN Bang-for-the-buck shootout we got side-tracked into a little shootout of 4 power strips :-)]. Less bass than the shootout last week with this song? Don\'t know. Spent a lot of time listening to the various parts of the music. Neli: the piano and voice seemed much more in balance [I think do to the fact that one did not periodically dominate the other as much, that times when the voice was soft it could still be heard in its entirety. And vis-a-versa].

I will summarize the shootout involving several power distributors (aka power strips) quickly. Oh boy do they sound different from each other and the Office Depot $60 special , although gritty and uneven - retains at least most of the dynamics and is cheap. Very cheap. The two outlet $1500 Acoustic Revive sounded better - looked better - and didn\'t tip over as easily. But it is also more expensive. [OK, I have this thing about paying a lot of money for power strips. Sorry.] The less expensive ones really added too much and took away too much. But this made me wonder if a $10 \'power strip\'-like thing similar to one of the tools we used as a reference during this shootout might just beat about anything. More on this as soon as I remember to press buy in my stupid cart sitting in my stupid browser tab for over a month now because my stupid memory just ain\'t what it used to be [and it’s not like I did it any good during my misspent youth].
One [or several, can\'t tell them apart yet] spider cruised the listeneing session several times and returned to attend several other shootouts. These guys can really book - criss-crossing the middle of the floor a dozen times forcing the more timid of us [which was everybody] to have to move our feet out of the way lest we get crawled.

do with very accurate timing and

lots of low level information being

preserved. Voices real and personal.

Harder to ignore voices when they

sound like they are right there -

before they were kind of buried and

blurred into all the other voices.

E. Radiohead - Amnesiac. First track.

Sounds grow and decay in their own

little spot. Not swamped by other

sounds. Everything, all the many,

many sounds Radiohead puts in this

[all :-)] song, could be easily

followed. Each sounds decay into

final nothingness was there to

enjoy. It was not swamped by the

other sounds. We have heard this

song 1000s of times - on all kinds of

systems. This is NOT something that

we have been able to hear and

enjoy before. Yes, it is probably

evidence of how Radiohead put the

song together on tape. But is sure is

entertaining - and adds a whole

new dimension to enjoying music.

How many times have we all gone

to a live show, and just followed

one musician's playing for awhile,

kind of ignoring the other players?

This is apparently harder to do on a

home audio system than when

listening to music live - or at least it

was until now.

F. Elton John

Getting late. Very tired. This is the

3rd shootout this evening - [after

the earlier ODIN Bang-for-the-buck

shootout we got side-tracked into a

little shootout of 4 power strips :-)].

Less bass than the shootout last

week with this song? Don't know.

Spent a lot of time listening to the

various parts of the music. Neli:

the piano

and voice

seemed

much more

in balance

[I think do

to the fact

that one

did not

periodically

dominate

the other

as much,

that times

when the

voice was

soft it

could still

be heard

in its entirety. And vis-a-versa].

I will summarize the shootout

involving several power distributors

(aka power strips) quickly. Oh boy

do they sound different from each

other and the Office Depot $60

special , although gritty and uneven

- retains at least most of the

dynamics and is cheap. Very cheap.

The two outlet $1500 Acoustic

Revive sounded better - looked

better - and didn't tip over as easily.

But it is also more expensive. [OK, I

have this thing about paying a lot of

money for power strips. Sorry.] The

less expensive ones really added

too much and took away too much.

But this made me wonder if a $10

'power strip'-like thing similar to

one of the tools we

used as a reference

during this shootout

might just beat

about anything.

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