Has your HiFi changed your musical tastes

In my first effort, I went with gobs of detail and resolution. To the exclusion by oversight, of the musical spirit itself. With that outfit, only a scarce few recordings sounded appealing, or engrossing.

I sold it all offf after stumbling onto this site years ago.

The next few rigs were aimed exactly the other way… towards euphonia and romantic & melodic. Screw resolution & details. I’d had enough!

Finally with my current rig, I have both ends of the wand. Sufficient resolution and detials. Ambient cues, and hall info…. Wen present. As well as, a very musical system.

Most all of my collection is listenable with my main system. Naturally those recordings that are outstanding do indeed sound as such. Those of lesser merit sound as indicated…. So the best are enabled to excell, those lesser students remain lesser, but allowed to perform too.

Having such a mix is in fact my aim. I refuse to own a rig that disallows poorer content and reduces my library to mere handfuls of listenable albums. I’m quite pleased with what I’M GETTING… CONSEQUENTLY I’LL KEEP DOING WHAT I’M DOING…

Sooooo in all, experiences with hardware synergy and a desire to adjust my outfit to a more benevolent one keeps me in the loop of musical enjoyment… and not scrambling only for those better recordings, I might or might not care for the genre anyhow.

A single caveat here…. Quite old, mono, or just flat out not good cuts are easier to take on a lesser revealing system. Duh! So I have that too at my disposal. The curious thing is I seem to be cured from the audio nervosa syndrome… as I listen immensely more to my lesser quality systems. Firing up my main one only a day or two out of the month, normally.

Investigating new genres, and their musical heroes therefore is now more stimulating than ever. I'm adding classical for the first time.... world and Latin... even some pop gets in the mix here and there. big bands. Big Band jazz. A variety of colorful newly found products contine to appeal now, where they had not previously.

Oddly enough, I'd never have figured I'd be running a fully file oriented playback system either.

No. The types of music that resonate with me, have not changed. I listen to music on a Logitech Boom while working, and enjoy doing so. When I play music on my stereo, I would describe it more as being engulfed by and feeling the music.....rather than listening to it. But the music remains the same.

interesting question!! I also have pretty eclectic tastes in music, but have found over the years that I just love listening to most kinds of jazz (except big band & latin) on my system; conversely, my enjoyment of big classical symphonies (Sibelus is my favorite) has waned a bit -- I suspect that my system just works better with more intimate presentations...

Hi,
Tmsorosk, your transition makes sense to me.As you`ve improved the quality of your system you`re hearing what a recording really has to offer. Jazz is beautiful, played by extremely gifted musicians who can convey astonishing emotion thru their instruments and voices. Fortunately most jazz is well recorded(just a few are`nt) and most sound engineers seem to leave well enough alone(unlike the manipulation with much pop and rock). A good system allows you to appreciate the sheer beauty of this acoustic(usally unamplified) music. I`m glad you found jazz music, it`s great stuff. Another good thing is ther`s so much recorded jazz available you can continue to collect and build quite a large personal library.
Best Regards,

Like several of you, having a revealing system hasn't expanded my taste into new genres as much as it has expanded the number of performers I listen to and appreciate.

What I've noticed is that I can now hear much more clearly what the musician intended, especially when there is substantial subtlety and innovation going on. That broadens the genre, highlighting the best in it.

That has made me learn to love a lot of performers I didn't 'get' before I could really hear what they were up to and distinguish them from less interesting performers in the same genre.