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If your down on your system…

If your down on your system, ask yourself, are you listening for the sound or for the music.  If the answer is for the sound, then try to do a mind bend, and forget the sound for a moment.  Take a deep breath and try to get into the music you’ve selected. After all, you’ve hopefully selected it for the music itself and not just for the sound.  That’s where the payoff is.
 I know this sounds simplistic and has been mentioned a lot in this forum, but it’s
a technique that works for me.

rvpiano

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mahgister
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I wonder if selling the stuff or being a musician ruined me.
I spoke to many musicians in my life and they are ALL different...

Like all people are different...

Music is not acoustical sound, nor written notes, it is consciousness ectasy beholding meaning .... Nothing less....

Acoustic and music knowledge are roads not the destination....But you know it already...

My best to you....
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mahgister
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@ mahgister
I don’t think so. I was a musician (in that I no longer play trumpet professionally or for any other reason) and I feel that was a help rather than hindrance to listening to sound rather than "music".
Playing an improvised solo was one thing but being part of note combinations the rest of the band was looking at was rather mechanical.
Pleasant to be part of but mechanical none the less.

I enjoyed the "sound" of every note structure combination.
It is probably why I went into selling audio equipment in my Don Quixote quest to reproduce "sound" as realistically as possible.
I concur completely with your post...

My point was not about sound versus music...

We always listen to sound and music together in an unbreakable unity where we can distinguish the two for sure...

My point was about the way to go from "sound" of the gear to "music" in the room, using acoustic....
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mahgister
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We cannot forgot the sound if  we are under the threshold of a very bad timbre reproduction...

If we are slightly over it it become possible...

Alas! unlike when i was a child i dont want to simply listen to music but also to listen to it in the better possible conditions...

The OP is a spiritual person or a musician, for them it is more easy to forgot the sound...
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