The Forest for the Trees


I caught myself last night doing something that I need to do more. I was listening to the music. I wasn’t concerned with imaging, sound stage, tonal quality, wasn’t even thinking about it. I was listening to the music. It engaged me, I was lost in it. But then, I caught myself and started thinking about why it engaged me. It sounded awesome because all of the qualities listed above were there. I need to remind myself to enjoy this hobby more for the music than the pursuit of perfection. It feels good when it happens and you don’t even know it is happening.
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Yes, if it is something I would play again.

I have lots of Oscar Peterson most terrific recordings, imaging ...

Recent purchase, the mix was WEIRD. Piano, some frequencies from left, suddenly other frequencies right, sometimes centered. Drummer left, except, during drum solo they moved the drummer to center, except kick drum stayed left.

I decided to go sit in the far corner, avoid being aware of the strangeness, man those cat’s can play, other than the strange imaging, the sound levels were very well done. I’ll never part with it.

Other LP’s, if not special sounding, I could listen to the few songs I like on Pandora and sell the LP, primarily to make room for others. I just listed 7 lp’s like that on eBay yesterday. I’m cleaning and Donna and I are listening to over 2,500 lps now.

https://www.ebay.com/sch/uncle.wins.music-1/m.html?item=133394789907&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2562