Why Do You Listen? A Poll Question

Good Lord, I still listen to music on the car radio, with the windows or top down, going 70...

Obviously I'm not very concerned with sound quality, but the experience as a whole.  I can still groove to Foghat running down a tight twisty in the Appalachian foothills.

Completely different experience sitting in my little one-seat listening room.

@kota1 

"So, I found Luna (Alessandra Safina) and Turandot (Nessun Dorma, Andre Bocelli Live in Centra Park)."

LOL

That's not the record I was thinking of but I'll look for that today!

Glad you liked it.

I was talking about this

https://www.prostudiomasters.com/album/page/27816

"Human ears don't lie. If you've been listening a good music, you ears can't stand a bad sound/music. "

Exactly how I feel. Good music based on what I like MUST sound great, otherwise I don't listen to it. Can't do it.

I so do not relate to this conflation of sonics with what is "good' in music". 

Many, many musicians care little about SQ. , because "music" is melody, rhythm. harmony -- not sonics. 

But I realize I'm probably in a minority, here. 

We can listen music on anything...

Furtwangler will stay a genius on an Ephone...,.

I prefer good sound but music has nothing to do with AMPLIFIED sound...

A stradivarius is not a 50 bucks violin and any violonist will care about the SOUND of his instrument... But the same violonist could listen music on a ephone and do not care so much about his sound system...

there is three vocabulary for three different fields here :

the vocabulary of audio : soundstage, imaging, harshness, digfital,analog , etc

the vocabulary of acoustic : reflection-diffusion-absorption- resonance reverberation time etc

The vocabulary of music : rythm, hamony, tonality, atonality, polytonality, arpeggio, polyphony, melody, etc

These three vocavulary intersect in the timbre concept and experience for example but describe it in three different perspectives...

Half of audiophiles at least know more about the gear varieties than about music varieties and they know even less about acoustic...😊

Acoustic and psycho-acoustic is the heart of audio not the gear....

And i listened most of my life music by geniuses on bad audio system... Because of budget choice...

Some are even scandalized that i listened music on cd instead of turntables... But half of the persian and Indian music i listened to was on cd not on vinyl... And i never listened pop music then i dont care about vinyl...Turntable maniac dont listen indian raga not turkisch sufi music.... All way more available on the cd format ...

And when you buy thousand and thousand of books you dont buy thousand and thousand vinyl... I was not Bill Gates... 😊

Then you are not alone stuartk...

But I realize I’m probably in a minority, here.

I listen because I like to listen to music? I also like it to sound the best it can but it can’t everywhere all the time so that’s fine and I will still listen if it sounds at all good. Audible distortion is right out for the most part but I like a sweet sounding tube amp as much as the next guy. But given the choice I will listen on my best system system setup. On any given day I could chose to listen in over a dozen ways including car and headphones. Variety is the spice of life! Viva la music and good sound to boot!