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What is Musicality?

Hello fellow music lovers,

I am upgrading my system like a lot of us who follow Audiogon. I read a lot about musicality on Audiogon as though the search for musicality can ultimately end by acquiring the perfect music system -- or the best system that one can afford. I really appreciate the sonic improvements that new components, cables, plugs and tweaks are bringing to my own system. But ultimately a lot of musicality comes from within and not from without. I probably appreciated my Rocket Radio and my first transistor radio in the 1950s as much I do my high-end system in 2010. Appreciating good music is not only a matter of how good your equipment is. It is a measure of how musical a person you are. Most people appreciate good music but some people are born more musical than others and appreciate singing in the shower as much as they do listening to a high-end system or playing a musical instrument or attending a concert. Music begins in the soul. It is not only a function of how good a system you have.

Sabai
sabai

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lacee
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What is the meaning of life?

There's 7 billion answers to that question, and just as many interpretations of what musicality is.

Really, it's all about personal preference.

And it will change as you age and gain experience.

Musicality is not an absolute, it's in flux, intangible, and mostly elusive.

It's the butterfly we can't catch, the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

It's in a system cobbled together costing a few dollars to one's costing the GNP of a third world country.

It comes in all sizes shapes and colours,and just when you think you have it , you hear something that has even more of it than what you have.

Musicality will haunt you for all the days of your life in this hobby.

It's all around you,yet you can't capture it and put it in a jar, or a tube, speaker etc.

You can get a taste of it now an then, but you'll never drink the cup dry.
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