Concentration

@hilde45 

what do you think of my observation of the difference between classical music listening and other types of music regarding this dichotomy?

@immatthewj 

Good!!!

It's been a good day if I made you laugh! 😃

@wsrrsw nice pull on Tom Tom Club. 

Also, I really had to train myself to stop listening to my system. To stop see if there's any deficiencies or something's off or if the balance is off or if maybe this tube is hissing or whatever. For a while that just wrecked listening for me. I was concentrating so much on the system that I forgot about the music much of the time

@rvpiano lets say you’re in a Carnegie Hall or in a Lincoln Center. You’re listening to your favorite symphony. What do you concentrate on? How do you perceive and comprehend music? What do you listen to - sounds, music, performance or all of it at once?
I can tell you that when I’m at a live performance listening to an orchestra I pay attention to sounds just as much as I pay attention to music and performance. Same at home. The only factor is that the recorded music relies on your quality of your equipment and room acoustics. And your system will either do sounds well or convey emotions or in cases of exceptional synergy it will do all of the above. It also depends on your mood and mindset.

@audphile1 

when your in Carnegie Hall of course you’re listening to both.  But when you’re home and listening to your stereo you’re indulging a hobby which involves sound for sound’s sake.  Quite different from a Carnegie Hall experience.