FIM K2 HD Mastering CDs

Our good friends [hi Alex! hi Teck! :-)] sent us a sampler of the latest reference quality FIM CDs. Thanks guys!

It has taken awhile for us to grok these CDs. We still don’t have a good handle on the music itself – but the sound, the sound is impeccable.

Very quiet background. Lots of separation. Crystal clear tonality.

And no ‘sweet mud’ that the old XRCD[2]’s have, with more detail and coherence than some of the other audiophile recordings out there. Still missing those midi-dynamics and upper midi-dynamics that LPs have.

In other words, these are really the ultimate in ‘audiophile-ish’ CDs – safe to play when other audiophiles are in the room :-), pleasant, impressive when it is called for, revealing of system strengths and some of its weaknesses, and it is REAL music, and not … well… Nora Jones is real music..WAS real music – but the recording, the sound, here is better and more varied.


A goodly selection…


The CDs come in the XRCD-ish folder…


… and a new ‘framed’ folder.


Here you can see the frame…


And inside are usually several pages of notes – along with the slide out CD, which, since it has a sleeve, is a little easier to get out without completely trashing your CD with finger prints and finger nails and cardboard streaks.


Details…


More details…

A write-up is over at Dagogo … if you can stand all the exclamation points.