Audiophilepure

It delivers powerful, expansive and intense sound – precise, yet very deep. The lower end of the frequency range is equally active. This is something that should appeal to anyone whose systems are notoriously “underweight” or lacking in bass. The bass lines in tracks such as “Autumn Leaves” from Cannonball Adderly’s album Somethin’ Else, the dense distorted bass line on “Wandering Star” by Portishead, or even The Mills Brothers vocals from the album Famous Barber Shop Ballads: Volume One, all of it was especially large and had “weight,” or “gravity.”

This particular characteristic of the Japanese system had already emerged earlier with Blakey, when at 0:20 seconds of the first track something suddenly hits hard in the low end, and a moment later it repeats. It’s some part of the drum sound that was probably inaudible in the original, but which was cleaned up after the sound was boosted during remastering. It is similar with the low “pops” in the drummer’s voice as he announces the next track, “Moanin.’”