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?

rvpiano05-03-2025 6:01pm

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mahgister Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 13,502 posts 05-06-2025 at 12:56am Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Sound is to music what a woman is to a man... They make love and birth meaning... Meaning in music is related to the way we evaluate timbre information as in the speech act... It is proven that our body decipher timbre information and music instrument reflect this interpretation done by our gesturing body... When an audio system at any price is optimal acoustically because we have done it right, sound is a door opening to the music content, a qualia which is concrete, sensible and totally immaterial and abstract at the same time... «My wife is a concrete noise and an undecipherable abstraction i touch time to time »--- Groucho Marx
limomangus Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 1,544 posts 05-10-2025 at 05:48pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete For me it's the music...and not on headphones...I went to ,to many concerts and sat to close...
tcutter Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 153 posts 05-10-2025 at 09:44pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete I think if you're "listening intently", you're missing the point. I don't listen for the drums, but I frequently find myself following the drums or the piano or a voice without trying to. Kind of just absorbed in what's coming out of the speaker. I am more likely to do that listening to a great recording on a great system in a great room. There are times where I feel that people cast aspersions on those of us who are into the equipment. But this is a hobby and when you think about really any hobby, the end goal is to enjoy it and do it as well as you can. Golf, coin collecting, oil painting, all of these have an end point of doing the best you can do. For me, the artificial reproduction of music is one of the things I want to do well. I don't believe this makes me any less of a music lover.
niodari Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 323 posts 05-11-2025 at 06:42am Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Both things combine perfectly well. A good sound quality rises the degree of the enjoyment.
gents Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 118 posts 05-13-2025 at 01:54am Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Just putting it out there that I haven't listened to Jazz At The Pawn Shop in, at least, a half a dozen years.