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Getting into the music

I’ve found, to my dismay, that it’s very difficult for me to listen to music for the music itself these days. Since I got into this audiophile game many years ago, little by little my musical appreciation has eroded to the point that I find it very hard  to comprehend the music itself if it doesn’t sound good.  Too often I’m listening for sonic delights rather than the message the composer is trying to convey. I find myself going from composition to composition looking for audio niceties. When something sounds good I can then begin to get into what the composer is saying. 
As a former musician, this would have been unthinkable years ago.  Music was everything to me.

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I feel your pain. Since retiring I have chased "the sound" and finally it hit me. I was wasting too much time in the critical listening arena and not enjoying the music. Then one day, on a whim, I tried out an old pair of Klipsch Chorus ll speakers. I hooked them up to my Luxman L-509Z and played the digital file Hotel California from the Eagles’ When Hell Freezes Over album through my Aurender A20. When Don Henley hit the bass drum and I thought he was in the room with me I realized I was done. No more chasing the ultimate sound. I spent untold hours listening to amps, preamps, speakers, DACs, cables, etc. I found my happy place. I had half a million dollars of gear running through my house over the past two-three years, driving my wife nuts. Only thing left is to do some room tweaks and I am done. Or am I? The plot is always moist...

All I do now is swap out the Klipsch with an amazing sounding set of Harbeth SHL5s. The wife helps with that.

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