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Mid level listening

I think that when listening to music it’s best to intently listen for the music rather than to the beauties of the sound production. In my opinion that is the most enduring pleasure you can get from your system. Unfortunately, for whatever reason it doesn’t always happen.   When you can’t seem to get fully into the music there’s something I’m calling mid level listening where you listen for the enjoyment of both SQ and the music itself.  I know ideally that should always happen to a great degree but it doesn’t always, which leads us to be dissatisfied with our rig.  
What do you think?

rvpiano
tooblue
1,978 posts
 

With both my systems, headphone and main system it is always about the music and always satisfying as it is the medicine that heals my soul. Enjoy the music

newbee
4,807 posts
 

IMHO boredom with your music and/or lack of interest in finding/exploring new music is a major contributor to audio angst. What else is left to do except listen to the sound of your systems performance. Really sad, I think. For a lot of folks, here anyway, I think the actual music to be heard is really a secondary (if any at all) issue. 

hertzhead
30 posts
 

I completely agree with the poster's first three sentences.  It is also something I have been pondering recently. I am lucky to have a number of friends and relatives with good, well set up systems. Most of us actively pursue expanding our musical horizons, finding new (to us) music in many genres, thus continuing our joy and excitement in our hi-fi hobby and contentment with our existing systems. Two of these folks, however, do not, causing them to often experience Audiophilia Nervosa and general discontent with their systems. I feel bad for their lack of enthusiasm and struggle with how to encourage them to continue the discovery of unfamiliar, remarkable music. 

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noromance
10,088 posts
 

Vinyl. Years ago, I used to listen to the equipment as some records sounded excellent and some were not good at all. So I was always avoiding the lesser recordings. This scenario is extremely common and is a symptom of an immature system. My systems have slowly evolved and everything sounds great. I don’t even think about what I play, or what condition it’s in. It's all about the beauty of the music, and the magic of the old technology reproduction chain.

kofibaffour
207 posts
 

well, I just listen to the music I like. no need to overanalyse. I notice little and subtle things, but I don’t go listening to a song for a specific section only. that would be miserable. If I like a song, I like it as a whole.

 

Thankfully I have a setup that lends itself to just letting the music shine and that is all it does. No over editorialisation with its own tone. Just true to the song being listened to

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