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Is audio a kind of spiritual journey?

Hi,

Some weeks ago, I read a post in another audio forum that tried to explain that somehow the search for good sound is a spiritual journey.

It mad me think and I wonder, are we just searching for good sound? maybe that good sound is opening some windows or gates in us?

What lies at the essence of what experience when when our system sounds great?

what effect does that produces in us? is it just mere pleasure?
is there something more to it?
when we feel transported by the sound of a melody do we transcend the ordinary?

What do you think?
Txs
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csontos
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Were the instructions in Japanese?
electroslacker
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If you believe the journey is to arrive in the moment, without ego, and connected to something outside yourself, then yes, music over some systems can take you there. But possessions would work against reaching that state, and I just realized I've mainly had those moments listening to someone else stuff, and not my own possessions, which are often extensions of ego. God knows (slang-speaking) that audiophilia has lusting for stuff as a cornerstone of the faith, but the moment when it all disappears seems spiritual.
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alanbrain OP
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Exactly Electroslacker that is what I feel "but the moment when it all disappears seems spiritual."

But is also true that sometimes you catch yourselves having those moments with one of your audiophiles friends stereo.

I do not know why but we some of us, audiophiles, always end up comparing systems instead of just enjoying. Not all for sure.

And after the comparing merry go round, we do not enjoy music as before but we get stuck in the sound analisis "paranois". At least, that was my case some years go.
schubert
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Yes and no, if you listen to rock it is not, Jazz can be to a degree, a Bach Cantata or the Mass in B, nothing but.
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alanbrain OP
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Well, yes i have those moments mostly with jazz, acoustic stuff, classical and a few rock bands. In my particular case, some of them are: Grateful Dead, CSNY, King Crimson, Mike Oldfield.
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