In my life… I was in the glee club in Junior High School. So hard to describe and this recursive definition isn’t helping much, I bet. This is about the intrinsic musicality of music. This is a special kind of “Ultimate Music Experience” we talk about here on the blog periodically. I believe we all have these kind of “Oh, THIS is music” experiences spread out during our lives. Or just to be able to describe it to myself and kind of stick a flag in it in a “to name something is to have power over something – to start understanding something” way. This is SO hard to describe and such a fleeting concept, it is hard to grasp on to it long enough to identify it in enough detail, to understand and categorize it sufficiently, in order to describe it to other people. My next thoughts, something a little less ‘silly’, I think, was that “oh. One of the first thoughts I had is that it did not matter that these speakers were quite modest in the general scheme of things these days, and that this kind of performance was indeed achievable on this system with the right combination of upstream gear. Something that can at least be tied to some kind of logical reason to be reacting so emotionally to something, let’s face it, is just a rather banal case of just exchanging one power cord for another. Or the thoughts about all the wasted hours listening to music withOUT this level of playback. I like to think it is because of the beauty of the music thus revealed. Why does a person start crying at times like these? I don’t know. The INCREDIBLE subtleties of music and emotion and musicianship and… the INCREDIBLE depths this hobby has to offer keep surprising me. So for the first 1/2 second or so it was like, “Compared to the ISIS, that is not that much diff…er…ent…….” Unlike the Odin, there was no, almost 3db(!), jump in volume. All of these components are superstars but the DAC has called attention to itself many times for being so wonderfully un-DAC-like. So… eeny-meeny… we put the first SOOTTO on the DAC. Not quite $300K in gear, but enough so its not like couple of $11K power cords are completely unwarranted. And the Acapella LaMusika integrated amplifier. Crazy, huh? □Īnd now we have the $11K-ish SOOTTO power cords. Yep, that is six or seven HUNDRED, not thousand. We have recently had the Audio Note ISIS power cords in. īut lately things have changed vis-a-vis AN power cords. Audio Note itself has made several forays into the power cord universe, but we have withheld our unflinching approval of these efforts. Īlthough we have very much enjoyed the Nordost Odin One power cords, at this same exact-ish price point, little else has impressed us. A person is likely to have some expectations and demands going in to the process, with a few eye-rolls and ‘what has this world come to’ heart-felt commiserations by the spectators. You know when you start playing with $11K-ish power cords, things are going to start getting weird. Audio Note SOOTTO power cords, power cables, mains cable, PC… whatever you want to call them.
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