If your down on your system…

Take a deep breath and try to get into the music you’ve selected. After all, you’ve hopefully selected it for the music itself and not just for the sound. That’s where the payoff is.

I agree with the statement. Its about the music. Yet I wonder if the music has enough allurement to pull them out of the sound they hear. Then too, it may be that they are reacting to the music itself. You cannot divorce the sound & the music. The music is the sound & the sound is the music
I generally don’t say much about a persons choice of music. Yet I often wonder how anyone can get into what passes as audiophile approved music. It seems apparent that this music is approved based solely on its sound qualities and not its musical quality. Yet I must say that if you truly like it, then so be it. You may not like my selections. But they are my selections, not audiophile approved by the mfgs & magazines who want to show off equipment with sonic qualities

@ mahgister
I don’t think so. I was a musician (in that I no longer play trumpet professionally or for any other reason) and I feel that was a help rather than hindrance to listening to sound rather than "music".
Playing an improvised solo was one thing but being part of note combinations the rest of the band was looking at was rather mechanical.
Pleasant to be part of but mechanical none the less.

I enjoyed the "sound" of every note structure combination.
It is probably why I went into selling audio equipment in my Don Quixote quest to reproduce "sound" as realistically as possible.

I concur completely with your post...

My point was not about sound versus music...

We always listen to sound and music together in an unbreakable unity where we can distinguish the two for sure...

My point was about the way to go from "sound" of the gear to "music" in the room, using acoustic....

If your system is great,and the music isn't,fire up a big fat one!

My point was about the way to go from "sound" of the gear to "music" in the room, using acoustic....

I am forever plagued .
That being said, our salon studios were set up to obtain the best sound possible with room treatment,
Then, and to this day, I cannot get by the "sound’ part to get to the music part no matter what the waves are doing.
Even in the band, didn’t hear music as much as I heard "notes".
It’s maddening.
I wonder if selling the stuff or being a musician ruined me.

I wonder if selling the stuff or being a musician ruined me.

I spoke to many musicians in my life and they are ALL different...

Like all people are different...

Music is not acoustical sound, nor written notes, it is consciousness ectasy beholding meaning .... Nothing less....

Acoustic and music knowledge are roads not the destination....But you know it already...

My best to you....