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The Sound or Music

I listen to all genres of music but really enjoy it with good sound. I know of people who just love one particular type of music but don't care at all about audio. My late relative just loved classical music and had hundreds of good records but his system was like bad transistor radio. He had means but was not interested in better system at all. Music, for him was 99.9% and sound 0.1% of the pleasure. He was most likely missing half of instruments of orchestral music, he listened to - either by limited frequency response or very poor resolution. He was a music lover. Am I a music lover or just only an audio freak?
What about you?
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orpheus10
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Mapman, give me a rundown on the big OHMs. Although I have never auditioned a pair, "theoretically", I can not imagine a better speaker.
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mapman
22,198 posts
 
Orpheus10,

I'll just say that the OHMs are a lot of bang for the buck in terms of comparison with other speaker designs.

The Walsh driver concept in combo with OHM Acoustic's, ie John Strohbeen's, ear for music, MIT engineering background, and focus on really only the things that matter to produce good sound at reasonable cost, are the keys.

Rather than rehash what's already in various threads here and elsewhere on the net, please pop me an email if you like and I would be glad to discuss!

kefir
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With this "sound or music" choice, might be added another consideration. I've known many musicians (or others who have some music theory training) who have mid-fi equipment at best and care little about high-fidelity. When they listen to music they can get excited over chord progressions, voicings, harmonic textures, counterpoint, syncopation, scales used in improvisation, etc. -- all things that can be heard from a boombox. (Oh by the way, I am not insinuating that audiophilia is a compensation for not having a musicians' "BIG EARS" -- just that there is so much to hear and enjoy in music that goes beyond sound quality.
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kijanki OP
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"just that there is so much to hear and enjoy in music that goes beyond sound quality."

Kefir - Yes, but good sound doesn't take anything away. It enhances overall experience - at least for me.
jdoris
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300 is a lot of recordings. I have a small collection of CDs, 550 or so, now on a server, so access is easy. Taking a wild guess, 100 or so of these are in pretty "heavy rotation," while there must be 200 or so that I would hardly miss. Like many of us, I'm busy, so I don't get to listen as much as I like (I tinker with my rig even less), although music is usually playing while I'm home.

So how many recordings do you get to listen to in an average week? Listen to seriously?

Fewer distractions on a desert island, but I'd take the sound.

John
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