Two Type of sound and listener preference are there more?

Can somebody explain to me how you depart from musicality by embracing detail and high resolution. Isn’t that the very definition of musicality?

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Can somebody explain to me how you depart from musicality by embracing detail and high resolution. Isn’t that the very definition of musicality? If it doesn’t sound very clear and detailed, how can it be either musical or high fidelity. "High fidelity", folks. That’s what this is all about. I don’t understand what these tone people are chasing after or what "listenability" is supposed to mean. By definition, if your stereo isn’t conveying a high degree of clarity, it isn’t "high fidelity". It’s something else.

They’re not mutually exclusive, but I think most here are referring to sacrificing just a smidge of resolution for ease of listening. Maybe the sort of difference one might find between ATCs and Vandersteens. Another factor is that many speakers have a tipped-up treble response that creates a false sense of clarity.

That’s the $64K question what is better, detail and resolution or musicality. Exhibit A the humble audio cassette. No doubt cassettes lack the detail and resolution of Red Book CD. But CD EVEN AT HIGH DATA RATES cannot compete with the warmth, presence and tone of cassettes. And cassettes escaped the compression campaign that has plagued CDs for twenty years and now plagues LPs and SACDs and even hi res downloads. 

Interesting conversation.... I think about being in a church service several years back, our pianist was excellent, really enjoyed listening to this guy play,  he was a professional and played with several theater groups around town.  Soon we had a guest pianist that sat in at the request of another.  This guy was relatively know jazz pianist and played in the best clubs around the Midwest.... Equally good, but my goodness, these 2 guys attacked the keys totally differently from each other, they paused differently and flowed differently.  So If I listened to both of them on a system without knowing them so well, how would that translate in front of my in my system.  Can you get the same emotion and feel from these 2 very different performances?  To me,  That explains musical.
When I sit down, I normally start simultaneously listening for tonal  balance and sound stage, I quickly get to imaging, dynamics, resolution, detail and frequency extremes. If I don't come across any glaring problems, I can normally kick back and enjoy the music without much more thought about it and just enjoy the music. If I notice a problem,  It'll drive me crazy, I need to address it.  
I'm not sure which camp that puts me in.