"I have to extract the music..."- Mr. Fenchfries.
I don't want to put words in your mouth, but this above phrase you used is interesting. You say this about recordings that are not very good quality, but in my experience this is where I would start to worry.
Let me explain...
Of course your system sings when you put on great quality recordings(!) but a balanced system means that even the bad recordings are allowed to live.
A decent hiend system should get to the heart of the musical expression otherwise it is just expensive junk.
I liked ML. I used to have their reference system, but as I mentioned above there are other standards. I can assure you my system does not dictate which record I play. You should be sucked into the recording.
In the past when things were not right this kind of murdering of music would indeed happen. Thin treble or lack of harmonic texture (dry) and lack of soundstage layering are sure signs of it. I guess other words are "mechanical" or "uninvolving".
Please don't take offence but as someone who has been through it, and from the little information you have given us, I suspect you haven't found the right balance or magic yet regardless of MFs opinions. I am not sticking up for reviewers but there is something I feel I recognise in your post.
Who knows if its your amp or something else? Maybe MF knows? But you will know the sound when you have it, because you will be blurry eyed at 4am forcing yourself to go to bed with album covers all over the floor. From what you say I fear this is not happening very often.
Audiophilia is an illness caused by lust worthy equipment that has no soul. When I was a kid people queued for the lastest music release, now people queue for the equipment to play it! Doesn't that say something?
I don't want to put words in your mouth, but this above phrase you used is interesting. You say this about recordings that are not very good quality, but in my experience this is where I would start to worry.
Let me explain...
Of course your system sings when you put on great quality recordings(!) but a balanced system means that even the bad recordings are allowed to live.
A decent hiend system should get to the heart of the musical expression otherwise it is just expensive junk.
I liked ML. I used to have their reference system, but as I mentioned above there are other standards. I can assure you my system does not dictate which record I play. You should be sucked into the recording.
In the past when things were not right this kind of murdering of music would indeed happen. Thin treble or lack of harmonic texture (dry) and lack of soundstage layering are sure signs of it. I guess other words are "mechanical" or "uninvolving".
Please don't take offence but as someone who has been through it, and from the little information you have given us, I suspect you haven't found the right balance or magic yet regardless of MFs opinions. I am not sticking up for reviewers but there is something I feel I recognise in your post.
Who knows if its your amp or something else? Maybe MF knows? But you will know the sound when you have it, because you will be blurry eyed at 4am forcing yourself to go to bed with album covers all over the floor. From what you say I fear this is not happening very often.
Audiophilia is an illness caused by lust worthy equipment that has no soul. When I was a kid people queued for the lastest music release, now people queue for the equipment to play it! Doesn't that say something?