Has your system changed the music you listen to?


I recently went through a "sell it all and start over" phase with my system. I now own an all McIntosh system driving Thiel CS 2.3 speakers. All of a sudden, I cannot listen to enough jazz. I have never been much of a jazz listener but now i am buying books on jazz music and compiling a sizeable jazz collection. (BTW: I don't consider this a problem in any way, just an interesting phenomena!) Previous system changes have not produced such changes for me.

Life circumstances have certainly been part of this but I cannot help but think that my system change has contributed to this revolution in my music listening habits. Has anyone else experienced anything like this.
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Showing 2 responses by marakanetz

...some music tastes change but virtually speaking location where I find myself in the music never changes. I imagine that music in general is some kind-of array with certain laws and sometimes exceptions that everyone whether one wants or not defines it for oneself sooner or later. I believe that this array was already established for me a long time ago and way before I built myself a system. That's why I proud to consider my music array SYSTEM-INDEPENDED that can work good in any platform like Java computer language. Definitely in this array all with no exception performances are great and interesting and if even recording or the system is not as great still you can enjoy it. If I even someday have to radically downgrade my system I will be OK with cheaper rig just listening to what I've collected. Thus I never refuse to record something on the cassette and listen to it inside the car while I'm driving to work or simply not home. I even record some valuable records on the cassette and play the cassette instead of abusing vinyl in favour to keep it forever mint. My array is not as linear as I would say that there is a jazz, rock-n-roll and classic rock it's much more complicated to the level that I will not judge any type of music anymore meaning that if it's country it doesn't mean that I will ignore it.

Yes, I have to admit that lots of jazz recordings are with less compression and engineered with good quality even throughout the years but dare to agree that most among the mega-tone produced jazz records and CDs are basically the same in different performances and they all sound different!
This hype of finding the best recording of the "Moonlight Serenade" for example in tons of different performances seems to me not interesting and boring i.e. shortly saying it's all junk. I wouldn't still understand people buying remastered copies to the level that you hear sighing of the vocal along with some feet motions in the studio better than instruments! I consider that this was specially remastered for audiofiles that would say "yeah, if you hear this than this is a great recording"; while normally in the studios the noise are trying to hide.
So, most of ya folks "transformed" into jazz becase:

a)jazz recordings have a good quality and sound great;
b)classical large-orchestral music is too expencive to bring it to the level of pleasant reproduction or even i'd say nearly impossible;
c)rock recordings are recorded poor.

C'est La Vie!