Enjoy your music on your system...you put it together and relax and listen to wonderful music...Enjoy my man.
Wasted Years.
When I think of all the years I wasted listening for sound rather than music I am totally chagrined . After a very long period of placing the quality of my stereo above the beauty of music I’ve finally come around to what I started listening to music for in the first place. It’s especially a source of embarrassment for me since I spent the first few decades of my life as a musician!
My quest for getting better sound actually replaced my quest for the greater appreciation of my art.
What a pleasure it now is to search for things to play based on what I really love rather than picking out something because I want to hear how it sounds. What an empty pursuit that is for me!
It actually took many of my (and others’) postings on this forum to achieve this state of mind.
Now I appreciate all the work I put into the sound even more.
Nirvana!
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Setting up a really well matched second system has made me enjoy music more than ever. I feel no need to upgrade like in the past. It gives me 80% of my main system and at the same time let's me appreciate my main system even more. I just set up a turntable in that room, it's more forgiving of records that aren't so great. That plus millions of songs at my fingertips has really made me enjoy the music and not think so much about hardware. |
@oddiofyl A corollary of that, at least for me, is that I’m finding a ton of great new music that’s also very well recorded (and a lot of it in high res) — win win! |
I enjoy the music now as well. But in all honesty I really enjoyed the pursuit of better sound, even with its twists and turns. I assembled some great sounding systems. However... For me, it wasn’t just a shift in my mental focus... it was literally changing my system to be musically accurate instead of sonically striking. Over the period of about ten years I changed my objectives from hearing more detail, getting better bass, imaging, to correctly representing the music... so the details were as apparent and in proportion to what they are in real life. Also getting the rhythm and pace and natural midrange bloom. Step by step (component by component) as I did this my focus moved my attention from the system to the music. It isn’t dumbing the system down at all, the details are still there. It is getting the gestalt and details right in perfect proportions. It is a step further than a system that presents all the details and has great slam. It is absolutely not about shear details. For instance, there is a current thread about hearing the squeak in the drum kit on a recording. It is the glee in this kind of pursuit that obscures what most of us really want. If I listen to the recording could I hear the squeak? Sure, I have a great system. But if you are listening intently to hear that... you’re probably completely missing the point. It is a distraction. With my system now, I find it hard to listen to the system... the music is so compelling. I mean, if I try to listen to some characteristic... it only last a few seconds until I am distracted and lured into the music. My focus is drawn to the music... no mental direction is needed. To me, this is what a great system does... not what the big rig Wilson, Rowland, Burmeister dCS. Those are technical feats of amazing sound. |
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