What is meant exactly by the description 'more musical'?

My summation: INVOLVING. Takes your full attention, pulls you into magical moments (to a greater or lesser degree).

1st, an involving performance: composition, music and/or words, musicians, recording skills, engineering skills, production skills, puts a terrifically involving product in your hands

Now: total system: produces excellent Involvement?

Next: evaluate a change of something: equally involving? surprisingly more involving?

Verify the change is real (nothing errantly changed during the gear switch); buy it!

I’ve lost count of the number of times that this question has been asked in one way or another. Snore...

@roxy54

what you say is certainly true

but as time has passed for me clicking onto this forum, i have gotten more comfortable with the fact that there is much repetition of topics... i guess i view this in a more sanguine manner than before

some valuable nuggets, concepts, ideas, hints etc are probably worth repeating, first to help newcomers to the hobby, and sometimes, also to remind ourselves what’s important to remember

have a great thanksgiving buddy!!!

Fun thread.

Musical is when everything! congeals.

And systems tend to be like paintings, in a sense. If you think about it, the painting is the artist’s interpretation of their own reality. And their expression is the way they’re presenting that! reality.

Lots of elements are involved IN the interpretation, the making of it. The same way our systems create the sound we perceive in our brains. The Musicality.

I guess you sort of have to have an artist’s mind to view it this way. Probably also helps if you smoke a lil weed. : )

@mahgister would love to hear your perspective on this.

@zlone You should do some reading about Lyngdorf’s approach. Their integrated offerings is sort of a big brother, little brother situation, whichever one you can afford. It’s literally the same level of both performance and sound, one with considerably more power than the other, and also flexibility in how you can use it b/c you can add on modules if you like. I actually have the first generation, which I would say is the middle child b/c it has the adaptability of the additional modules, and also a lil more power than the little guy.

All of the reviews I read said that the little guy is completely competent and that it’s sort of an identical sound ... the bigger more expensive model literally just has more power and adaptability. They are both very musical.

The Room Perfect software is what makes the magic happen. I recommend you check it out, in your search.

@dman777 , you're 100% correct.  AS3200 is very tube sounding. And a amp I'll be enjoying for a while.  When you listen to the Luxman 590II vs AS3200 they are completely different.  Luxman has the detail, refiness and precision that a class A is known for.  The speaker matching is very important.  I've never own McIntosh gear so I cant say much of their characteristics.  I know people aren't fans of Yamaha gear on Agon, but when you look at their company history, technology and musical instruments.  Yamaha knows what they are making and selling.  I'm a character of less is better and amps that are 100w fall in my category.  For me its always music first, but man, equipment that looks nice just makes it so much satisfying to own and hear.