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Has audiophilia changed your music taste?

Before I got into this hobby, I was big into heavy metal. I am very much into progressive bands like Dream Theater and Queensryche. My collection consisted of rock 90% and classical/jazz/other at 10%. Ever since I started getting into audio, my listening has changed and so has my music collection. What used to be 90/10, lean to rock, has changed to about 70/30 and changing weekly. Lately, I can't keep Patricia Barber off my system. I absolutely love her. The thing is, the other day I put on some Pat Travers and the listening only lasted about 30 minutes before it was back to Patricia Barber. For some reason, rock doesn't sound as good as it did before. Maybe it is my system or maybe it is me.

Anyone else like me?
matchstikman
unclejeff
1,313 posts
 
Change? No.

appreciate and expand? yes.
dmitrydr
221 posts
 
Not a change... - may be development. First, I was have to taylor my collection. Some of quite pleasant CDs become almost unlistenable due to bad recoding, however I discovered for myself acoustic music from Naim, expanded my limited experience with classical - for me harsh sound of complicated symphonic music and even string quartets (bad recording on bad equipment) was always the barrier...
timf
237 posts
 
Music has always come first for me. I have been impressed if my system does something as miraculous as make the music I have listened to somehow sound better, but ultimately it is still the performance of the music that has had my interest. More often it is that recordings sound badly recorded, and I think this awareness of recording quality -as much as I can discern it, really defines how my system has effected me. Older recordings sound less than steller.Otherwise, Audio magazines have actually expanded the scope of music I listen to simply because music reviews, interviews, etc, have introduced me to performers I was not yet aware of.
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bombaywalla
1,958 posts
 
Not really!
I still listen to LPs that have one too many pops & clicks 'cuz I like the music on it very much & I'm willing to put up with the disturbance.
What audiophilia has done to me is that it has exposed me to more genres of music such as Jazz & Blues. I used to be a classic & soft rock kinda guy.
Audiophilia has also made me seek out my type of music that is well recorded rather than mass-recorded so I end up paying more per CD or per LP rather being satisfied with CDs from, say, Sam Goody or the BMG club. This, I think, is the "curse" of hi-end!
zaikesman
3,017 posts
 
No. In fact, make that Hell no.
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