Stuff You Tried To Love

I am often shocked at what clicks with different listeners.

Our consciousness level and our perceptions is related to the ways are oriented our acts of thinking, feeling and willing...

Music is a symbolic forms embodied in sounds grounded in the body existing on specific consciousness levels which cannot be perceived and understood as interesting and meaningful by all people in all cultures all at the same time ...

The deep meaning of Yoruba speaking drums or Didjeridoo meaningful experience can escape the mind of someone vouching only for Mozart or Miles Davis ...Or rock-pop etc...

There is no linear hierarchisation of value from the worst to the bests ... There is only music more able to elevate conscious levels or not and this for a specific person at one point in time in his journey which will make no sense for other people....

But there is a cycle of working thinking-feeling-willing-perceptions which at some point in time ask our consciousness to enlarge itself for a deepest experience and ask us if we are ready to open ourself to something out of our habits...

Because of all i just said: music is meanings engrammed and produced by the gesturing body (mouth and members) then the more distant from the creative body music is the less significant it is...( i speak about artificial sounds here not natural sounds) .

Then we must be ready to hear and understand Eric Dolphy... And we may prefer didjeridoo to miles Davis or Chet Baker ...Or praise youruba drums over kind of blue... This means nothing for others people... This only reflect a part of our soul journey in music

There is also the case of instant love while other pieces slowly become favorites, or in some cases music might fall out of favor.  I find it impossible to say why certain music did not click at first while others were instant favorites; there is no obvious characteristics that make sense to me about what I like.  Instant favorites include Shostakovich Piano Trio No. 2, Schoenberg's Gurrelieder, Beethoven late string quartets, anything by Schubert, most of Mahler, but, Prokofiev and Bruckner did not initially tickle my fancy.  I did not pay much attention to British composers like Britten, Vaughn Williams, Walton and Tippett, but now I like them a lot (throw in Alwyn too).  

@viridian The ortofon bronze sounds wonderful with a tube phono preamp. Its a great cartridge. Fremer mentions the use of a tubed phono stage with the bronze in one of his cartridge shootout articles.