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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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tubegroover
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Charles1dad I like the part

"If the equipment adds "musicality" to the signal, that is a distortion."

This equates to the "better than real" comments that is occasionally mentioned, kind of like a drug but one thing for sure, over time it becomes increasingly obvious, its always there when sometimes you know it shouldn't be. The thing is that we all hear differently and we have our preferences but unless you spend a lot of time listening to live acoustic performances it can become a bit tricky determining where that line lies. Again great observations Frogman.
tubegroover
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I haven't been to the Vanguard but do have both vinyl and cd of Waltz for Debby and most of Evan's recordings for that matter. I can CERTAINLY hear that low ceiling, very typical of a lot of jazz venues I've been to, one place quite close to us in Florida that has since closed Dino's for anyone that has been to that place in Cocoa Beach, FL. Had some really good local jazz here in the day along with Wolfies, oh well probably no one on this site is familiar with these obscure places but that Village Vanguard recording does remind me of the acoustic space of Dinos.
tubegroover
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I don't think I've come across a better description than your's Mapman, well stated!
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