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Getting into the music

I’ve found, to my dismay, that it’s very difficult for me to listen to music for the music itself these days. Since I got into this audiophile game many years ago, little by little my musical appreciation has eroded to the point that I find it very hard  to comprehend the music itself if it doesn’t sound good.  Too often I’m listening for sonic delights rather than the message the composer is trying to convey. I find myself going from composition to composition looking for audio niceties. When something sounds good I can then begin to get into what the composer is saying. 
As a former musician, this would have been unthinkable years ago.  Music was everything to me.

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rvpiano OP
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EXACTLY!

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mahgister
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I underline the key element that create the problem :

Then, when I listen to my main system, I’m somehow expecting better than I perceive it to be and I’m back in hyper-critical mode once more. It’s frustrating.

Acoustics is God in audio ...

We expect something that it is not there because we perceive a lack or an excess from an unbalanced system/room ..

A simple example :

Why i did not perceive as a  frustrating lack of bass from my 4 inches woofer which goes 50 hertz and not twenty ?

My top headphone goes near 20 hertz...😁

The reason i live well without frustration  nor need for a sub woofer even if 50 hertz is not 20 , it is because the speakers/ room are balanced expressing each acoustic factors optimally relatively to one another ...I know i lack bass but it does not bother me at all because all is well balanced ... Acoustics rules and mechanical and electrical embeddings done right rules with it  ...

 

 

newbee
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RV in exchange for your recommendation for Mussorgsky's Pictures (in another thread) I offer you Kantorow's version of Rachmaninoff's PC #1 on BIS. Of my 8 other versions this fits me best, sonically and musically. I highly recommend it to you. I had a fun couple of hours listening to all of these. 

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rvpiano OP
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Newbee,

Thank you

minkwelder
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@mahgister 

Similarly, with my Joseph Audio Pulsars, the 5" woofers don't produce the lowest bass but, depending on the source material, I don't usually miss it. The Pulsars replace my Aerial Acoustics 10-T's which actually tended toward too much bass in my 15.5' x 23' room so, overall, I'm happier with the Pulsars. I think with some modest room treatments I will finally be happy or.......wonder if I should add a subwoofer.

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