Get a pair of Sony's 360 reality headphones. It is more enjoyable than all this hifi crap somedays.
Or Temu sells some in-ears for 20 bucks that are kinda jawdropping (shop like a billionaire....i always knew there was a billionaire in ya).
LoFi
My sound system is down for repairs (I don’t know for how long). I’m now reduced to listening to music on Alexa’s transmission of WQXR, New York’s classical music station, in LoFi. Surprisingly, I’m getting into the music more easily. Without the distraction of sonic values, I’m able to totally concentrate on the music itself. I don’t need Hifi and soundstaging to “get” the musical message. it brings me back to my youth when I listened on a table radio and first fell in love with music. I find that I now can follow a piece of music from beginning to end more easily.
Not that I’m ready to give up the hobby. Just an interesting observation.
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I don’t think OP’s issue is low-fi vs hi-fi. It is the wrong approach of hifi, which focuses on some soundstage, separation and how things are spread out in it, pinpointing whatever. It makes an analytical mind go crazy, takes you out the music. About a month ago, i watched an orchestra in a grand acoustical hall, not too far from where i live. There was not even a remote instance of not being fully enveloped immersed in the music, almost transcendental, while watching a dense orchestra. To do that type of envelopment and immersion at home (that shuts down the analytical mind) at home, one may need to resort to some atmos/multichannel/object based audio....I recall 10 years ago, it was the classical guys who were switching over first. But, of course, it requires a larger space, more expense, setup complexity, etc. Or the other extreme is to get a bluetooth boombox or transitor radio to completely kill all expectations and lower standards drastically... so it becomes enjoyable again.
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@rvpiano If you are already heavily invested in conventional 2 channel hifi, conduct an experiment...which is moving yourself closer into nearfield 4, 5 or 6ft from speakers and adjust toe-in. Determine if some additional level of envelopment/immersion is being created by the soundfield, trying to shut down the analytical mind. If that's the case, BACCH processing (by Dr. Choueiri) might be a solution at your regular listening distance...i.e., it can launch you deeper into the recordings..way inside, no longer sitting on the analytical fence periphery. Or if you are too pressed for space w.r.t a big multichannel rig,, you could even try some nearfield multichannel like the following example. Guy in the video is using some cheap gear, but, it is to get the general idea. https://youtu.be/aGUs_FS7n8w?si=WbisatTuNFPuw63Z I know hifi speaker and amp designers who sell you hifi stuff, but, will only do their personal listening (for enjoyment) with above mentioned deviations from hifi stereo purism.
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