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Fantastic Music Logic CD! Posted by Robert Bienstock [IP: 208.250.143.152] on January 28, 1999 at 16:07:54: In Reply to: Fantastic Music Logic CD! posted by SMR [WizOp] January 28, 1999 at 14:48:09 :My choices are all Mike Oldfield and ELO… The biggest hi-fi disapointment of my life was when I was invited to a listening session in the ultra fi back room at Lyric Hi-Fi in NY about 10 years ago. This room had about $250,000 worth of equipment in it, the speakers being those Infinity speakers (IRS?) that consisted of 4 eight foot high towers. These were multi-amped to whatever the limits of the crossovers allowed (at least tri-amped). After listening to the salesman's choice of boring classical and jazz music for about 1/2 hour, I asked if I could listen to my 2 favorite CDs. They actually refused to let me listen to my favorite (A Passion Play) claiming that there was a store policy of no Jethro Tull (I kid you not), so I had to settle for my second favorite, side one of Ommadawn. I put it on, sat back, relaxed and prepared to be blown away, and ... ... ... Yech! I was treated to the flatest, most uninvolving sound I'd ever heard. It seemed like all the life and air had been s*cked out of this magnificent record. To make things even worse, the system even cramped the dynamics and made the part at the end when the guitar is wailing sound sedate. Now at home through my DC-1 it sounds pretty good Ommadawn seems also immune to that Lexicon Music Logic magic, but in Panarama, ... bliss at last. I haven't figured out what it is about this record that it sounds great in plain old stereo on a good to very-good system, but it is ruined by any encounter with the high-end. OTOH, I'm now listening to Songs From Distant Earth in Music Logic and it sounds great. My candidates for the best music to show off the DC-1 are, for Misic Logic/Surround: Enya's WATERMARK (especially "The Long Ships") and U2's BOY (especially "Into the Heart"). For Panarama mode, anything on The Allman Brothers LIVE AT THE FILLMORE EAST is pure magic. Robert ps, Two comments on your forum software: (1) it wouldn't allow me to post the original version of this letter as it determined that the word "s*ucked" was inappropriate for a family forum. Notwithstanding the fact that this word was perfectly appropriate in the context, I submit that even in its most lurid form it is probably safe for even a family forum. (2) After I got that message, and was instructed to edit my message by pressing the back button, which I did, my message wasn't there anymore. This never happened to me before when I previewed a message, so this could be a bug that occurs only whenever the system detects a wirty dird.
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