"Water hoses left on the living room floor" is one wife's remark about cables. Martin Logan CLS looks " like a couple of extra doors parked in the middle of the living room " i think that girlfriend actually cried when she saw those lovely speakers in situ the first time.
When ever you make a major upgrade in your stereo system, a new wife is always the safest way to go. 
you have a good prenup guy? LOL"Water hoses left on the living room floor" is one wife's remark about cables. Martin Logan CLS looks " like a couple of extra doors parked in the middle of the living room " i think that girlfriend actually cried when she saw those lovely speakers in situ the first time.
Cables on the floor makes it hard to clean
The dealer in which showroom my speakers are commented people like the sound .
But the wives were complaining they had no front/ the drivers were to visible .
Before I moved away from the Philly area I had the good fortune to have spent about 30+ years going to Philadelphia Orchestra performances, including about 9 years with Nézet-Séguin. I find him to be a wonderful conductor, but personally I thought the orchestra did Mahler better with Eschenbach (who was often pilloried as Philly’s conductor).
Actually, I think he did rather well. Less so in the earlier movements but he (and they) really nailed the last one.
First are you confronted with a wall of sound? A sixties mono copy should present you with a soundstage with little or no sense of depth. If you get any sensation of depth, your equipment is distorting the soundstage. Second can you hear tape noise? A simple test of resolution. If you can’t hear the tape noise your system doesn’t have enough resolution to be considered high fidelity.
I assume this would still work even if you made a digital recording of the LP? Or does it have to be directly off a record player?
I have a digital recording of Pet Sounds. The same two characteristics apply.
I am not putting down someones methodology but listening for noise wouldnt be my method. The sound of real instruments in an acoustic space has and will continue to be what I am looking for. Electric studio recordings can sound like anything they want to sound like.This is not good nor bad just reality. So if judging your system by the glassbreaking in a Dire Straits Record , or a dog barking in a Roger Waters disc is your test great to me I want to hear real instruments played in a real space and Ill live with the rest.Judging i system by what i does NOT do, sounds like a easy test.
If you know what tape noise sounds like it is easy to tell when it is present and when it isn’t. Common knowledge that the original recordings had tape noise. I’ve been able to hear since I was a teenager and can still hear it at 70.Judging i system by what i does NOT do, sounds like a easy test.
I listened to the streaming version a little. It all sounds like it's coming from right between the speakers. No depth to speak of. I have to turn it up louder than I normally listen before the hiss becomes obvious. Might just be my aging ears. As a kid I always easily heard hiss on anything that wasn't pure digital on any system I listened to. Now I rarely notice it unless I go out of my way to hear it.
Elliot, I expect better from you. You act as though a simple test of resolution is all I listen for. Pet Sounds is one of nine reference recordings I’ve used since 1982. I also use three sets of recordings I’ve made of instruments I almost hope you don’t like.
It was mainly this little beauty i was referring to. Maybe your equipment is just really bad at reproducing depth and will pass the test with flying colors !
By the way "a sixties mono copy" refers to a digitally converted file, you don't list a record player among your equipment ?
I guess you didnt read what I said but so be it. This is the way things are done take something out of context and get indignant. If you had said what you said now then maybe the reply would be different. I don't know what you use as you never said it. My mind reading skills have diminished sadly. I made a statement of what I do and thats that period .
You are hearing exactly what you should hear. And as we age you need to turn it up a bit to hear the tape noise.
