I just can’t seem to enjoy the music of my youth when I stream. For the most part, the sound is awful. On the other hand when I listen to a Contemporary Digital recording I find that I can be in audio bliss. On a positive note, I have discovered way more artists than I ever thought possible. I can’t imagine if AC/DC and Van Halen sounded good. Why would I need anything else?
how else would I have found? Slim Dunlap?
More enjoyment
In my never-ending quest to achieve more enjoyment from my stereo, I’ve found one more strategy to do so. Without eliminating the quest for enjoying the sheer sound of the equipment.
I try to, at first, just choose music that I really love, regardless of sound. I try to forget about the sonics completely and go completely for the music. I know this is very hard to do. But if I approach my music that way, little by little I can find my way back into the sound , and the combination of music and sonics is blissful.
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@gkelly , same here eg. Moody Blues and Foghat. My music selection is definitely influenced by SQ over material. But I’ve discovered a lot of new music thanks to streaming. I have a premium factory stereo in my vehicle and it’s significantly more forgiving than my home stereo so I tend to play my 60’s rock while driving. Richard always good to see you post ! Regards , Mike B. |
When my system/room was not optimized yet i was completely frustrated even when listening my Bach or my liked jazz... Now i focus only on my music.... A system cannot work better than his own peak potential but most of the times it is enough to reach "minimal acoustical satisfaction threshold " M.A.ST. a level many people dont reach at any cost.... When music begin to impose itself and sound become the messenger conveying it we are there ... I type these words listening Vivaldi sonatas OP 2 with Kovacs and Sebastyen... I listen to it since the first year of CD... i tried other versions nothing work, even if the sound recorded of my beloved version is a bit "acid" i hear it thousand times, because of the interpreters pulse which is unique.. The pulse is a rythmic musical element that cannot be written in notation nor measured...it can only be felt....Furtwangler interpretation of Schuman no 4 or Chet baker Tokyo concert or Miles Davis "kind of blue" convey a perfect pulse... When all musician plays in the same wave and when one spoke . the pulse is there like a voice wave vibration... |
sometimes I will look for nice musical performances on youtube... those are not in any way high fidelity sonics, and you actually listen to the music for its own sake, sound quality is barely passable but not the point, and not to obsess over... it is a good break from doing the hifi gear thing ad nauseum sometimes |
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