Has your system changed the music you listen to?

If you look at high-end audio as a "platform", it certainly seems there's alot of audiophile-grade recordings of jazz and so on as proper "software" for it. Catalogs like Mapleshade etc. certainly favor jazz, blues, classical etc. - the availability of a broad range of audiophile recordings seems more favorable to these genres. To listen to what sounds good is natural - as long as you like it, and the continued availability of good "software" in these genres may contribute toward your wandering in that direction.

I have the misfortune of being a huge heavy metal fan. Not very common to find good production in that genre, but some of the music is just priceless. Here's hoping for 180gm Acoustic Sounds reissues of all the early Piledriver LPs! That would be the day.

I do the best with the "software" I like to play, and tailor my system toward that goal, rather than the highest level of sound reproduction available to me.

What I can say is the availability of cheap "book-sale" vinyl has caused some wierd listening behavior in my household! You've never seen so much ELO and Rick Wakeman in one place (except maybe YOUR living room in the 70's - busted!)

I tend to listen to more classical music with every true (not just change) upgrade.

...some music tastes change but virtually speaking location where I find myself in the music never changes. I imagine that music in general is some kind-of array with certain laws and sometimes exceptions that everyone whether one wants or not defines it for oneself sooner or later. I believe that this array was already established for me a long time ago and way before I built myself a system. That's why I proud to consider my music array SYSTEM-INDEPENDED that can work good in any platform like Java computer language. Definitely in this array all with no exception performances are great and interesting and if even recording or the system is not as great still you can enjoy it. If I even someday have to radically downgrade my system I will be OK with cheaper rig just listening to what I've collected. Thus I never refuse to record something on the cassette and listen to it inside the car while I'm driving to work or simply not home. I even record some valuable records on the cassette and play the cassette instead of abusing vinyl in favour to keep it forever mint. My array is not as linear as I would say that there is a jazz, rock-n-roll and classic rock it's much more complicated to the level that I will not judge any type of music anymore meaning that if it's country it doesn't mean that I will ignore it.

Yes, I have to admit that lots of jazz recordings are with less compression and engineered with good quality even throughout the years but dare to agree that most among the mega-tone produced jazz records and CDs are basically the same in different performances and they all sound different!
This hype of finding the best recording of the "Moonlight Serenade" for example in tons of different performances seems to me not interesting and boring i.e. shortly saying it's all junk. I wouldn't still understand people buying remastered copies to the level that you hear sighing of the vocal along with some feet motions in the studio better than instruments! I consider that this was specially remastered for audiofiles that would say "yeah, if you hear this than this is a great recording"; while normally in the studios the noise are trying to hide.

Yes It has. The more we evolve our systems, exposing the textures, colors and nuances of the instruments the greater the possibility of enjoying the performance.

Not to say that music cannot be satisfying when pouring from a bedside radio. I doubt though anyone would deny better quality is an asset, even if not a priority for them. Most of us are content listening to a solo piano played live, yet we can be put to sleep by an entire orchestra when played on a mediocre sound system.

The more I perfect my system, the more interesting all kinds of music becomes. My library has evolved so much that I can find music to please almost any visitor as well as myself.

A typical session with visitors finds us listening to everything from 1960's RCA shaded dogs to antique Blue Note Jazz. Then switch to The Doors, cuts from one of Neil Young's masterpieces, some Bob Dylan or Elvis Costello. Favorite "newer" artist are Rickie Lee Jones, Janice Ian and Kate Bush. Sessions with my 16 year old son gets LPs by Radio Head, Dirty Vegas, Eiffel 65 and Everlast.

You have added another dimension to your life with the deeper appreciation of Jazz. I consider it one of the most varied formats in my collection. Some is near classical, some mainstream and some is more like abstract rock and roll.

I have perhaps two thousand jazz LP's and resist returning to EBAY to shop, as I am running out of space.

Congratulations on your new found pleasure.