Why audiophiles are different (explained with color)

My gear is average but very well embedded and in a room under controls...

Timbre experience was my relatively large bandwith response feed back from the room/speakers to help me fine tune the Helmholtz mechanical equalizer...

But any average system like mine even in a very well mastered room has some limit...

Some gear does let you hear this and some doesn’t do it as well. IMO, this can all be attributed to how well gear portrays micro-dynamics in music.

This microdynamic expressing gesture of playing between 2 instruments locked one with the other by their "rythmical resonance" is after timbre experience the most important criteria about an audio system for me...

It is the only reason why i would upgrade, if i could afford it, my 500 bucks system to a 15,000 bucks one...( yes i calculate the price even if i could never afford it) But happily i have a "minimal" experience of this microdynamics ONLY because my system is well controlled...I can live with my actual system without killing myself...

But a "minimal" experience is not an optimal experience... For sure...

I console myself with this minimum and anyway most people dont live this experience even with system way more costly than mine....microdynamics is harder to get than timbre experience which is his acoustical basis....

The perception of microdynamics is less the perception of separate details by some costly piece of gear able to act like a microscope, than an ability by the system/room to link the part and the whole in a rythmical way....It is why it remind me of a rythmical playing "resonance" ... Details are not separate from the body of sound like a fractal effect but experienced together distinctively but never separate more like hues of color..

Thanks frogman to this important post about microdynamics...

This jazz album illustrate well for me what i have in mind by this microdynamics rythmical resonance between 2 players...

If a system catch well the living subtle variation of these 2 instruments playing together, the constant mingling and rythmical departure from note to note.... The system do well....

Walt Dickerson, Sun Ra "Vision"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEz8NZzffX8

Or in classical any well recorded quartet like this one:

Auryn quartet Haydn quatuors, with a sound so well recorded that this microdynamics is more easily expressed and perceived... We must feel this rythmical resonance between the gestures of the string instrument speaking with one another...it is no more the proper timbre only but the inflective and reflective gesture through the tonal timbre playing and  answering to another one, like one respiration or as if there was one instrument only ....


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQZNCyib3Cc

Great music, mahgister.   Brilliant spontaneous creativity and wonderful Haydn.  Thanks!

Great music, mahgister.   Brilliant spontaneous creativity and wonderful Haydn.  Thanks

Thanks frogman.... Happy that you like my choices...

To add for the microdynamic resonant rythmical or pulsative experience , i just listened tonight to this absolutely perfect and marvellous transcriptions for a quatuor of brass to die for , the recording is out of the ordinary and reveal this dynamic micro texture at plays between each instrument, we feel on an ocean where each wave think by itself through the others....


Canadian Brass "Brahms on brass"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMnmUoWkGYM

Elite drivel was too kind but I am a nice guy. Look at y'all patting yourselves on the back meanwhile everything you know about audio would fit into a thimble. Simple concept is too much for you. You can learn listening skills but that grain comment tells me you have never worked hard enough to know what to listen for. Too busy acting superior to spend the time learning and too busy acting superior to realize what ya don't know. Ya make fun of others but ya done nothing to better yourself. Give me a kid off the street and 1/2 a day and he could tell me more about what is wrong with a system than any of you.