Congratulations! The blending of music and high fidelity has kept me intrigued and fascinated with the pursuit of the high end all of my adult life. Now that I am retired and my system brings me incredible joy as something of an achievement made over my entire life. To me, what my system does best is communicate the music. I seldom listen to my system… I am engrossed in the music, the emotional content.
OK-- I think I get it, now...
For a long time, I've hesitated to call myself an audiophile, preferring "music-lover", instead.
To be honest, I've had a somewhat dismissive attitude regarding those whom, to me, appeared overly obsessed with sound.
With the recent acquisition of a Hegel H390, I'm forced to "change my tune", as it were. I guess I just crossed over into the high end.
I've been immersing myself in the Burton/Corea duet disc "Crystal Silence", a long time favorite of mine, and there is just so much "more" going on to notice and appreciate, now.
First of all, the music is unmistakably occurring in three dimensional space. And notes have roundness, color, density and texture. Instrumental timbre is richer and more distinctive. The players' use of varying dynamics, attack and tempo are much more evident than before. Vocals convey so much more emotion and now I can feel the emotion's impact somatically. That's new.
It's certainly made me appreciate my speakers, more. Apparently, up until now, the Silverlines have been denied the sort of amplification that would permit them to perform at their best. I hope the speaker gods will forgive me!
No doubt, in time, I will make other discoveries, but for now, this is crazy (in a good way).
I feel I've entered a whole new world. There's no way I can still claim to be "just a music lover". Master M has emphasized the unity of sound and music many times and finally, I think I get it. One cannot be separated out from the other-- they are inextricably one.
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@stuartk hopefully after you are past the point of listening to components and sound, you'll get back to being a music lover. A great place to start and end. |
@tooblue : "Just remember that it was the music that led you to better gear, not the other way around and you will be fine and rewarded" Words well worth keeping in mind! "To me, what my system does best is communicate the music. I seldom listen to my system… I am engrossed in the music, the emotional content". Now that's what I like to hear from guys who've been at this a long time! "... hopefully after you are past the point of listening to components and sound, you'll get back to being a music lover. A great place to start and end". Well, I 've never stopped being a music lover-- it's just that now I understand that "audiophile" and "music lover" can be like the ying/yang symbol-- each one present within the other as portions of a greater whole. Thanks for the positive vibes!
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