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Do you play an instrument/sing?

Personally, I'm a trombonist. Quite a bit of my audition is searching for something such that Joe Alessi sounds just the way he does when I actually see him at Carnegie/Avery-fisher. In other words, PHENOMENAL! Similarly, another part of it consists of listening to some brass heavy orchestral works, such as Mahler 3, Symphonie Fantastique by Berlioz, Beethoven 5,Brahms 1,2,4, etc, Beethoven 3 (maybe slightly less brass-heavy), etc. Then I listen to some classic rock, just to sound how it deals with yet another part of the music that I listen to, but the initial two parts tend to be the more important.

Are you an instrumentalist/singer, and if so, how does it affect the way you audition equipment and/or listen to music.
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iseekheils
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As a musician (guitar & trumpet) and vocalist, my listening habits are a mixed bag. I enjoy singing along in the car with a cheap radio, and at home listening more closely to the fine musical details from my 2 channel rigs. I have always looked for equipment that has been described as transparent or neutral, so I can hear what the recording engineers intended. However, after spending time in recording studios, and knowing what the potential is, I am dismayed by much of the source material that's available.
IMHO it's source that's the key to enjoyable listening, not the MEGA-BUCK systems that unfortunately many times, just add up to being expensive EQs. So, I guess being a musician, I really, really do appreciate the few albums & CDs where the instruments sound like the real thing.
Sonny
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