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Has your audio system gotten you into new music?

Before I picked up my current system, consisting of B&W 805S speakers, I was never really into female vocalists that much, but as many here know, B&Ws just love female vocals. Nowadays, a huge portion of my music collection consists of female vocalists, one of my favorite bands being Metric. I also appreciate other types of music more that I was never really into as much, like jazz. I think having a high end system lets you appreciate more types of music. Some stuff I used to think was "ehh" before I had the system, I actually love now. At least this is the effect my system has.
nemesis1218
parasound63
162 posts
 
Another resounding YES. A year and a half after getting Ohm Micro Walsh Talls, and I still listen to music more than at any other time in my life. Female vocals more than anything else, for that matter.

I also seem to have found an un-looked for appreciation of well-recorded bluegrass and (gasp) modern folk.
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willland
846 posts
 
Absolutely yes.
Of the last 20 CD's I have bought($1-$2/ea at pawn shop), 15 have been female artists. I have always liked female singer/songwriters but have really started to enjoy them and pure female vocalists more and more.

Some of my recent aquisitions are:
Indigo Girls,Tori Amos,The Corrs,Carole King,Fiona Apple,Diana Krall,Annie Lennox,Paula Cole,Nora Jones,Natalie Merchant,Charlotte Church,PJ Harvey.

Bill
grinnell
1,094 posts
 
Yes, when i took the plunge into real audio and dumped the yamaha SS cheapie for a tube amp and real speakers i made an agreement with my wife to just buy blues LP's.

Well classical LP's are sucha bargin at are local thrifts so I am now a major fan of all things classical.
saki70
907 posts
 
I now enjoy a catagory called Singers and Standards as well as more female rockers and blueswomen . Can't say that it is necessarily due to better equipment though .

Now as an aside... how many of us , that now listen to more female singers , are over the age of say 40 years ?
I have read that higher age can be a reason for this phenominon as well .

Happy Tunes .
magnumpi205
504 posts
 
Female vocalist are the defining factor in my choice of speakers. The most difficult instrument to realisticly reproduce.
There are many highly touted speakers that do not fare well in this area.
Great females voices are found in all genres, expanding my horizons a bit.
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