damn the withdrawal symptoms

after the love is gone - no eye see!
this always happens after the day i returned all the goodies to the dealer. a sense of loss, a sense of withdrawal and a constant question that beckons "why my system sounds so terrible?".

indeed, all of a sudden, your system sounds so fat and bloated, the bass is so mushy and ill-defined too, and imaging becomes fuzzy and blur.... what's happened to your once-beloved system that you cherish so much? is it time for upgrade?

fact is, after weeks of accustoming to the so called modern hi-end attributes that i mentioned in my previous post, your aural sensory would have gotten used to all these image compaction, high-res definition, super delineation and layering, bass tautness etc etc and returning to your own system simply means stripping away all these modern "enhancements".

but you overlook one thing. over the months/years, your system has been tuned to achieve a perfect balance - tonally and musically. by introducing a foreign component, the balance is often upset, despite the fact that the foreign component does indeed bring out obvious enhancement here and there. if you listen long enough, you will realize that your system is indeed more musically balanced, eventho' it does not excel in certain departments that the foreign component is good at. to be able to fully appreciate the new component, you need to rebalance the whole equation again, which may take months/years!

yes, it does take a while to get used to your system all over again. my advice would be to stop listening for a week and gradually come back and start to appreciate your system's virtues all over again.

it is hard but who ask you to "flirt" in the first place?