Rookie Mistake:
If you’re using Roon or the like, make sure you set the volume out to fixed. We had our set to 100% by mistake. We switched it to fixed and got a nice improvement is sound quality.
Hey, Vmax Frank Sinatra stopped by our place today, nice find!
Thank You
There is a YouTube performance video of the album. Not the same audio quality but it helps explain why the room appears why it does in Bacch DSP. The singers hand held microphones cause room to pan relative to direction they are pointing the mike. Also explains instrument positions piano behind singer rest of band and Dean and Frank to your right shoulder while Sammy is doing his monologue and singing.
The basic stereo version I heard many times but not 3D is so flat in comparison. The laughs from audience coming from all over the Sands venue. Real depth on Bacch. It pulls you into the perspective of being there for sure.
Thank goodness this is the offseason for us. We can’t seem to get anything done, we go down the music rabbit hole after we play something new to us.
Try:
Dean Martin / If You Were the Only Girl (in the World) … it’s like you are there!
Ok, We have another one to check out:
Summer by War on Greatest Hits 2.0, Qobuz version 192/24 (played in 96/24 on BACCH)
Just listen to the drummer on the right hand side, it comes in a few times during the song…it’s an OMG moment!
It appears we are trying to listen to all 90 Million songs on Qobuz 
What we love to do now that we have the MKII and BACCH is to click on a Qobuz playlist and play it all the way through, and cherry pick the songs we want to keep in our own playlist(s).
When I am listening to my system I am always looking for what would be an absolute knock out first song to play for someone who is having their first listen to my system. When I find a great candidate I add it to a specific playlist.
That playlist is really something to listen to.
Gosh!
O.K., I’ll bite (you tease!).
Where can one lay their hands on this “really something” play list?
I could just export it to a list.
I’ve been working on it for a few years now so their are more than a few “oh sure, this” songs on it…
I’m glad you didn’t lose it when you had to reboot the MU1.
Oh I know how to back up and restore Roon. My playlists matter a great deal to me.
Having said that, I wish the Roon backup system would allow backing up playlists and favorites separately. That would allow you to start fresh with Roon should something unusual happen and still retain your Playlists.
If you are alone, try this.
If anyone catches you listening to this they will worry greatly about your mental state. I will worry too.
If you are adventurous, just play the whole thing. Or skip straight to Mother Whale Eyeless or The Great Pretender. It’s a weird ride, it took me many listens before the light bulb went off and I finally got it. Lucky me.
I just played a vinyl version, sadly no BACCH-SP. Cable issue. Didn’t matter. This thing goes in each and every direction. No stone unturned.
The last song is like a warm shower to undo any damage.
I’m going to listen to it again with the BACCH this time. [Frightened whimper]
It’s fun though!
[Expert Level Rabbit Hole]
Brian Eno’s Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy is a fun ride. Had it since it was released in 1974. I got “it” then. For it’s day a bit of an odd duck, these days not so much. Brian being a major influence on the music scene and all. His ambient works are also worth seeking out. Third Uncle is quite the ride as well.
I have my turntable hooked up to the BACCH again! Hooray! Hooray!
Listening to this on white vinyl through the BACCH-SP.
It seems plush.
The East Flatbush piece is very entertaining!!!
(I now know how grapes feel underfoot)
This one is unbelievable isn’t it.
Even without BACCH the sound partly comes from 90 degree from the left side and is otherwise heavily spherical and enveloping…
Yes the bassist was literally positioned to my left in an adjacent room another 3 feet through the wall that had totally disappeared. I was totally turned left and sound field was still there unchanged and totally enveloped.
It’s a great one, now if I can just dig up my copy. A great nudge BTW.
