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My sound system is down for repairs (I don’t know for how long). I’m now reduced to listening to music on Alexa’s transmission of WQXR, New York’s classical music station, in LoFi. Surprisingly, I’m getting into the music more easily. Without the distraction of sonic values, I’m able to totally concentrate on the music itself. I don’t need Hifi and soundstaging to “get” the musical message. it brings me back to my youth when I listened on a table radio and first fell in love with music. I find that I now can follow a piece of music from beginning to end more easily.

Not that I’m ready to give up the hobby. Just an interesting observation.

rvpiano
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roxy54
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I would trade all of the gear that I have ever owned to have friends to listen with like I once had. Listening by myself has its own charms, but I really miss the listening/conversing of my late teens.

@stereo5 

That was my first thought...what's the problem?

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wturkey
871 posts
 

Give it a while. The ears will begin to burn from the degradation in sound quality. 
 

 

immatthewj
3,300 posts
 

Well, like they always say, "That was then and this is now."  

grislybutter
3,627 posts
 

there is a connection component to listening to music that has little to do with the quality of the source. It's how we receive and hear and what it evokes. It's like reading words creates a world in our brain, hearing sounds creates a world of emotions in our psyche.

inna
8,240 posts
 

Well, sometimes I listen to music on iphone, not for long. You can hear the outlines but not real music, but you can imagine a lot of it since it's not there. There is no substitute for a good sound.

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