OP your post do bring something to make me realize during my early years being an audiophile? Yes it’s a learning process , you get good sounds but no music.As you grow in this hobby your listening skills change from loving the sound to switching to loving the music. My opinion is that Rock is more for sounds than music, classical and jazz is more for music. Though I still listen to rock once a month. I have a system that is good for classical, and my other system is good for jazz , pop and a bit of classical, my Tektons does the rock for me.Once you have good sounds it does not mean it’s musically involving. So the next task is I calibrate my system to sound musically involving.
After a while it’s just sounds.
I find myself lately listening for spectacular sounding recordings ( as per my last post regarding the Alpine Symphony.) After a while I noticed that all I was listening for was just great sound in my listening sessions. And the sounds started sounding like weird noises devoid of meaning, even on my most beloved recordings.
This brings up the point of how we listen to music, and the attitude we bring to it. If we just listen for sounds the meaning disappears, and we’re left with disjunct noises making no sense. Not very enjoyable.
Thank the heavens, after realizing this I started listening for the meaning of the music and broke out of it.
Does this happen to you?
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