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I cannot be sure that it is not my ears breaking in. Note my use of "have half convinced myself" and "am becoming more convinced". No absolutes here.

I'm an electronic engineer by background and am naturally sceptical unless there is a repeatable measurement. Belief in engineering vs mysticism in high end audio is a big part of the reason I chose Meridian. My favourite statement by a respected analog electronics engineer 12 years ago when I last designed circuits was by the famous Bob Pease of National Seminconductor. "If you see something Funny, measure Amount of Funny".

But since succombing to the siren call of the business aspects of a technology career, I no longer have access to spectrum analysers etc.

Whether my ears or the equipment, its a big difference. A track that physically made me wince two days ago with the forward, shouty upper mid now sounds smooth, realistic, even if still detailed, extended etc. This had earlier sounded to me like a significant frequency hump, I'd guess 2dB.

I'm now away for a few days, so my ears will hopefully settle down and I can reassess when I get home. Meanwhile the player is on disc repeat.

Doesn't Bob Stuart have a Ph.D in psycho acoustics or similar? Would love to know his take on all this....

Sanjay

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