@rvpiano nothing wrong with wanting the best sq of your favorite music. For me, it was always about the music, 1st. and foremost. It is a shame how many listeners choose not to listen to music unless it is recorded well. Musicians doing their thing, to compositions created by them. This is the beauty of music listening. Enjoy my friend and stay well. Always, MrD.
Wasted Years.
When I think of all the years I wasted listening for sound rather than music I am totally chagrined . After a very long period of placing the quality of my stereo above the beauty of music I’ve finally come around to what I started listening to music for in the first place. It’s especially a source of embarrassment for me since I spent the first few decades of my life as a musician!
My quest for getting better sound actually replaced my quest for the greater appreciation of my art.
What a pleasure it now is to search for things to play based on what I really love rather than picking out something because I want to hear how it sounds. What an empty pursuit that is for me!
It actually took many of my (and others’) postings on this forum to achieve this state of mind.
Now I appreciate all the work I put into the sound even more.
Nirvana!
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@sns +1. I enjoy the music. I enjoy it more if its skillfully recorded, mixed and mastered. And I find that when I've been able to improve my system and/or my room the music sounds better and I enjoy it more. Squirrel logic. 1+1=2. |
Any piece of music will be enjoyed more if the recording is well done and if your system/room can translate this acoustic information for your ears... Once this common place fact is said, two of the greatest pianists i know are badly recorded... I enjoy them way more than most well recorded pianists... Music is not sound... Meaning is not information ... |
I will add some fact to illustrate the power of acoustics. In a system/room under acoustic control you can hear a single straw or a small tube used as a resonator his audible effect on some frequencies range will contribute by his dimensions and location to the sound experience as much as a cable or in some case as a dac upgrade, if there is many resonators well placed or not ... People are not conscious of that... They are only conscious of a change if it concern a piece of gear not about the material specific content of the room , be it a type of materials (wood, glass, fabric, etc) or some resonators, or reflexive surface, diffusive one absorbing one etc ... That is my point about acoustics power... The next step after room control is stereo crosstalk limitations which are adressed by Dr. Choueiri filters ... All this is way more important than most upgrade ...
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