Is it just me?


Why is it that I can listen to a recording and be moved to tears on one day and other times I can listen to the same recording on the same equipment in the same room and not be as involved?
Does anyone else experience this?
Is it the humidity, barometric pressure...what?
mlman

Showing 2 responses by tonywinsc

The emotion in music isn't controlled by power conditioning. It is conveyed through the musician and our state of mind at that moment. Otherwise, we could only be moved as such at a live performance. I've experienced it at various quality levels of reproduction- one such time was in my car in the 70s with an 8 track tape. Try as I might, that moment of feeling never happened again with that same song- even today with the vinyl version playing on my hifi; but I still remember that moment nearly 40 years later.
Point taken. My system can give me goosebumps now and then which I think is related to quality of reproduction but the emotional connection is all about the musician, I think.