I agree with listening as much live music with real instruments would help. I had purchased several CDs after attending to live jazz concerts, but always it was disappointment to listen to their music on my audio system. There is just no comparison between well played live music and recorded music, unless done extremely well.
Orchestral music can be hardly reproduced in low-mid high end systems, however well recorded.
In a sense, training ears would be similar to training wine tasting -- you need to listen to as much real live music as you would drink lots of wines to know more about wines; reading books on wines would help to a certain point, but no theory would substitute the real tasting. However, tasting wine with suggestion made by some wine gurus, like Parker, would certainly help your wine tasting.
IMO, audible memory in music is rather weaker than visual or taste memory. But it can be further cultivated as with wine tasting. Everest's book may help. I will check it out.
Orchestral music can be hardly reproduced in low-mid high end systems, however well recorded.
In a sense, training ears would be similar to training wine tasting -- you need to listen to as much real live music as you would drink lots of wines to know more about wines; reading books on wines would help to a certain point, but no theory would substitute the real tasting. However, tasting wine with suggestion made by some wine gurus, like Parker, would certainly help your wine tasting.
IMO, audible memory in music is rather weaker than visual or taste memory. But it can be further cultivated as with wine tasting. Everest's book may help. I will check it out.