Jazz listening: Is it about the music? Or is it about the sound?

A good sound help me to better appreciate what is not already my cup of tea...Enlarging my understanding musical scope...

Good music the one i love already dont need good sound but they are a marriage made in heaven anyway and like in a love affair, it is love that matters here not the need first...

My sound is so good now, i even listen nowadays the musical genre i listened to the less in the past : complete opera, because i can now see the singers walking on the theater or singing around me in some particularly good recording job...

It is thanks to my room mechanical equalization, because i has been able to control with it and some others device  the "listener envelopment " acoustical phenomena ...

Good sound help indeed....

Pesky, that's funny.  I had almost forgotten my first preamp was a Soundcraftsman with full spectrum equalizer.  Had that 4 years and have never had tone controls since.

Simple...

It should first be all about the music and if it's to your taste/pleasure...

Then look for a better recording and/or performance.

Duh?

DeKay

You can't listen to poorly recorded jazz, you can well-recorded jazz. I tried many times and failed, I can't listen to jazz at all any more. But Like Bill I used to be able to. Those guys are in the endless search of the right notes. Some jazzrock is another matter, even if sound quality leaves a lot to be desired. Mahavishnu Orchestra is the very best.

If it’s not about the music. You don’t actually appreciate jazz. Stick to Kenny G