Diana Krall

@jasmith, there is no correlation between being an audiophile and being a music-phile. It is a random correlation.

Diana Krall, Harry Connick, Jr., Natalie Cole, Andrea Bocelli...etc, etc, etc. If you know what I mean you need no explanation. If you don’t know what I mean then enjoy your music.

I am listening to an album titled "The Love I’m In" by Kate Reid. Kate Reid has a very similar style as Diana Krall but Kate is so much better at phrasing and emotion. If you like Diana you owe it to yourself to listen to this album by Kate Reid. You can easily find her on any of the streaming services. These two artists are so close in style it is amazing but so far apart in "soulfulness". Just listen to "With Every Breath I Take" from this album or almost any other cut. This album is so much better than anything I have heard from Diana but so very similar in style that it is a real education listening to both artists.

"Again, music is a matter of taste. No rights and no wrongs."

While each individual has the right to consume whatever suits their individual tastes, there are standards of excellence in the arts that must be maintained and recognized. Not everyone possesses the ability to recognize or appreciate true artistic ability. But there are "rights and wrongs" even if everyone doesn`t have the ability to recognize it.

Please! The etiquette protocols of an online forum are NOT the same as being invited into one’s home. If I was a guest in the OP's home and he was playing DK I would listen politely and grin and bare it.

As far as keeping to the original OP’s intent of his post, FREQUENTLY an OP will raise a subject that then morphs into to a more deep and interesting topic but still related to the original post. Happens all the time and nothing wrong with that. That has happened here. And I don’t see anyone being disrespectful of the OP’s original message. Great, he likes DK.

The broader subject that this thread has morphed into beyond DK is about mediocracy in music and whether “audiophiles” should have the ability to recognize it and tell the difference between it and truly exceptional artists. And if you can then why would one choose the former and not the latter?

I keep reading posters that seem to believe that there really is no difference or that the difference doesn't matter because it is all about taste and anyone who attempts to recognize the difference is a snob. I like to drink low cost red wine, rarely buying a Cabernet above $12 a bottle. When someone tells me I don't have refined tastes in wine I tell them they are right but I don't deny that there is a difference between a $50 bottle of Cabernet and a $9 bottle. I just say I can't appreciate it.