Some tables have soul and some not

****TT's and cartridges are "voiced" for different genre's of music, but perhaps only the most astute audiophiles are aware of this; which makes the fact why you are so "unaware" that much more apparent.**** -Orpheus10

I am curious about how you arrived at this conclusion? Perhaps you are confusing the documented fact that some of the best cartridge designers use or have used live unamplified music as a reference, with the idea that their cartridges are then voiced FOR a particular genre; a mistaken assumption.

****Classical music doesn't boogie****- Orpheus10

Well, I am going to need much more than one cup of coffee, and a lot more free time for that one....

**** Classical music has no soul ****

I share Learsfool's amazement that someone would make such a statement. One may not like one particular genre or another, but to believe something like that is, to me, a sign of a lack of openness at all that music OF ANY GENRE has to offer the listener. Without meaning to get overly metaphysical about this, music, like all art-forms touches parts of a listener's (audience) psyche that are not always in our comfort zones. We then, as typical human beings, do what is sometimes easiest: we shut out it's emotional impact, and decide that (at best) "we don't like it", and (at worst), "it sucks, it has no soul, etc,".

None of us are fully enlightened individuals (I will speak for myself), but a first step should be a degree of openness to art that we don't understand, or that causes us some discomfort. The potential rewards are huge.

Amazing! What have you drink?

Yes, the world seems to be populated by more and more simple minds. Frogman, we have a hard job convincing all these fools. Is it worth an effort? I do not think so. Maybe we are sometimes too tolerant, also with participants on this platform which are not interested in exchange of opinions or learnings but only to spill out stubborn or agressive short remarks without content.

best & fun only

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