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What define "musicality" ? And what constitute "musicality" in audio ?


I think that "musicality" is the most important factor and attribute in living audio experience... The experience of "musicality" i think, cannot be reduced to subjective factors only, nor objective one...It is more easy to describe what it is not, than to describe what it is, perhaps like the experience of God in theology...But for sure if you get it, it seems the most important resultant factor of your audio grid system,you feel it and like it the most...After 7 years i feel it more than ever...The urge to upgrade recess in the background because when you feel "musicality" already at a certain level, you dont believe that it is possible to push that level really higher at an affordable cost... "Musicality" for me, in my words, correlate with realistic musical timbre and voice, fluidity,no harshness at all, no fatigue, and last but not least, listening music and forgetting the sound...

This is my personal my experience, i am curious to read others about that,about their "way" and "means" to live that experience...Thanks to all...
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mahgister OP
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So, if you are able to just listen and enjoy, then just maybe you have a musical system....and the rest of the descriptions and definitions don't matter.



And yes I have "musicality" now, I listen to all my files with the same forgetting of the sound, particularly those files I was listen to no more because of their bad  sound...Their sound was most of the times not so bad, it was my system that was not able to give me some basic rendrering of them... Now I listen without changing the files by boredom, or hate, or indifference most of the times... A good system makes what is good, very  good, and what is bad better... For me this is "musicality" gain in my audio system... I am only interested by your history in audio, your way to gain that experience of "musicality" and the reason why you gain it finally, even if it is a relatively hard concept to define, a metaphor, that experience exist for each of us in different modes, or versions, or occasions... Thanks for you interest, understanding and participation...
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I agree with Geoff. Saying a system has 'musicality' is like saying a steak or cup of coffee has flavor. On the one hand it states the obvious and on the other hand it doesn't convey any useful information. 

And again, if everyone has their own definition of it then it can only really serve to confuse things.
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  N80, I perfectly know that there is no definition perfectly clear of God nor "musicality"...

But I am here to learn and listen to your own story about that experience... For example in your case how luck or inheritance transform a life without music with a life  with music and a relative "musicality"...

I perfectly know that this term is a metaphor... The experience is not, "God" is a metaphor, living "musicality" also, in the 2 cases, real experience are possible and sometimes real but always  relative to each of us... 
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I am fond of your story with "musicality"... I enjoy learning...Especially your evaluation and the reasons behind that "musicality" experience in your own life with your own audio system...
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I think it also has to be recognized that for many, the joy is the search for musicality... the journey.... and maybe not the ultimate destination. 


For  those that have the money and time... the fun may be trying new equipment... achieving new sounds and maybe even sharing their journey. 
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