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  What is Musicality?
Hello fellow music lovers,

I am upgrading my system like a lot of us who follow Audiogon. I read a lot about musicality on Audiogon as though the search for musicality can ultimately end by acquiring the perfect music system -- or the best system that one can afford. I really appreciate the sonic improvements that new components, cables, plugs and tweaks are bringing to my own system. But ultimately a lot of musicality comes from within and not from without. I probably appreciated my Rocket Radio and my first transistor radio in the 1950s as much I do my high-end system in 2010. Appreciating good music is not only a matter of how good your equipment is. It is a measure of how musical a person you are. Most people appreciate good music but some people are born more musical than others and appreciate singing in the shower as much as they do listening to a high-end system or playing a musical instrument or attending a concert. Music begins in the soul. It is not only a function of how good a system you have.

Sabai
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06-04-10
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06-06-10   Wow. what a ride! philosophy to the bitter end along with a ...   Tiggerfc

06-06-10   Http://www.yourbrainonmusic.com/   Hellofidelity

06-06-10   I can't describe it but i know when i hear it .   Shadorne

06-06-10   Ok, i am again reminded of why i became a musician instead o ...   Learsfool

06-07-10   i was not responding specifically to your statement, but ye ...   Jax2

06-07-10: Sabai
Onhwy61, "understand/comprehend" connote an intellectual or cerebral attitude toward music appreciation. I am not using the word appreciation in this way at all. I use the word appreciate to mean the ability to enjoy. Different people enjoy music in different ways. Men are naturally more cogitators than women. This is a psychologically observable fact that has been noted by many famous people in the field of psychology and psychiatry including Carl Jung. Have you noticed how your sister, mother, girlfriend, female friends or wife often appreciate music differently? Because women function primarily on the "feeling level" and not on the "thinking level" they tend to appreciate music on the feeling level, not on the cerebral level -- in most cases, unless they are musicians or unless there is a specific aspect of the music's reproduction that stands out and cannot go unnoticed, such as harshness in the high frequencies or a boom in the bass frequencies that may grate on the ears and "interfere" with one's ability to appreciate the music as a whole. Dissecting a musical piece and focusing on one or more of its constituent parts is not the same kind of listening that I am referring to when I use the word appreciate. For me, understanding or comprehending a piece of music technically is not at all the same thing as appreciating it or feeling it in its wholeness.
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06-07-10   Tiggerfc, i agree with you completely. sabai   Sabai

06-07-10   Tiggerfc - i loved "once" and would heartily secon ...   Jax2

06-07-10   Jax2 - "what do you think of their recent release toget ...   Tiggerfc

06-07-10   Jax2 - people became more practical in last 50-70 years and ...   Kijanki

06-08-10   Jax2, i was not trying to elevate women or audiophiles in my ...   Sabai

06-08-10   I was not suggesting that you had "elevated" anyon ...   Jax2

06-08-10   Music appreciation and the audiophile are mutually exclusive ...   Tonywinsc

06-08-10   "simple, we get bored with the music side of it and nee ...   Kijanki

06-08-10   I know i enjoy the music more through a better sounding syst ...   Tonywinsc

06-08-10   Well, you're all making very good points today, imho. jax2 n ...   Sabai

06-08-10   Does this really need to be defined??   Cyclonicman

06-08-10   I used the word bored for lack of a better term. i do not m ...   Tonywinsc

06-09-10   Tonywinsc, i agree. i am the same way -- running lines and l ...   Sabai

06-09-10   Musicality is so subjective. sabai, you've made some intere ...   Chazro

06-09-10   Chazro, i will take a line from steely dan. "i'm learni ...   Sabai

06-09-10   Hellofidelity, very nice page and musical tune too. i really ...   Nilthepill

06-10-10   Nilthepill, your comment is not off topic. it is exactly wha ...   Sabai

06-10-10   Hello everyone, in my last posting i forgot to add a comment ...   Sabai

06-10-10   Musicality - the term, since you asked, is a description of ...   2chnlben

06-11-10   2chnlben, this is exactly it, imho. musicality refers to the ...   Sabai

06-12-10   Sabai - one factor is missing in this discussion. it's pass ...   Kijanki

06-14-10   Kijanki, i agree. without a passion for music then what's th ...   Sabai

07-24-10   The sound of chamber or large orchestra at carnegie hall!   Ebm

07-29-10   Carnegie hall live classical concert chamber etc!   Ebm

11-17-10   It's whatever emotion you feel at the time your listening. m ...   Honeyfan

11-18-10   Tvad, you cannot not convince me that you are not an audiop ...   Mapman

05-17-11   Asthetic language is often used to describe the musical elem ...   Goofyfoot

05-26-11   recently i made some improvements that have been quite rewa ...   Orpheus10

05-27-11   Ime, how well the musicians and instruments gel with one ano ...   Jafant

05-28-11   Musicality is the measure of a piece of equipment's ability ...   Frogman

05-29-11   Frogman, that`s a beautiful definition of musicality. natur ...   Charles1dad

05-29-11   Charles1dad i like the part "if the equipment adds &q ...   Tubegroover

05-29-11   Tubegroover, good points, i use live jazz venues as my templ ...   Charles1dad

05-30-11   Thanks, charles1dad and tubegroover. on a related note, tube ...   Frogman

05-30-11   I haven't been to the vanguard but do have both vinyl and cd ...   Tubegroover

06-03-11   Put your favorite record on the player. set the volume. s ...   Dsper

06-06-11   Musicality is neutrality in the extreme in regard to high en ...   Orpheus10

07-16-11   Musicality is a subjective term that describes natural sound ...   Hammy

07-17-11   I think musicality has to do with the ability to express hea ...   Nvanderstoep

07-28-11   I think for most audio enthusiast, musicality is loving what ...   Armyscout41

07-29-11   Musicality starts when you seek new music material and enjoy ...   Pure_brew

08-02-11   In terms of audio components, it seems as though many but no ...   Goofyfoot

08-06-11   Musicality naturally evolves from familiar musical scales an ...   Soundsbeyondspecs

11-23-11   What is the meaning of life? there's 7 billion answers to t ...   Lacee

02-24-12   It's when a product brings a "huge amount of emotion&qu ...   Hifisoundguy

07-24-12   "musical" literally means "of the music" ...   Hfisher3380

07-25-12   Hfisher3380, i agree with you completely about the use of th ...   Sabai

02-13-13   The term "musical" or "musicality" are m ...   Rawinsonde

02-13-13   I'm with elescher: pace, rhythm, timing and tone/timbre. if ...   Vsollozzo

02-14-13   Rawinsonde and vsollozzo, musicality is a human quality but ...   Sabai

02-15-13   Sabai - thanks for the tip.   Vsollozzo

03-13-13   Sabai, get a grip! ask any orchestra member or conductor. m ...   Rawinsonde

03-13-13   People - quit trying to bastardize this musical term. think ...   Rawinsonde

03-13-13   Amen! (thank you)   Rawinsonde

03-13-13   Re: my last post... i was replying to hfisher3380's post of ...   Rawinsonde

03-14-13   Rawinsonde, musicality has different meanings in different c ...   Sabai

03-27-13   When you listen to music..!!..you start listening yourself ...   Chahed


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