I want to be moved and have the music touch my soul!

As Bob Dylan says at the end of every song, good luck! Getting to the soul of the music, being entertained by the music, being touched by the music, feeling integrated with the music, whatever you want to call it, is something that transcends electronics and speakers and cables and even room treatments and vibration isolation. It is the Great Unknown, the Unimaginable, the Upspeakable, the Final Frontier, Xanadu. It’s all very hush, hush. But I can say no more than that. Music soothes the savage breast.

“If I could explain it to the average person they wouldn’t have given me the Nobel prize.”

Heard a system in a home today with B&W802 D2 speakers. Gave me goose bumps several times. Very open and detailed top end. Bright on some stuff. Boxy sounding mid bass. Probably the room. 3D soundstage. Intoxicating. Orchestra lush and beautiful. His electronics were less than mine. Don't have the money or space for them. Crap.

Ben, Your system is all quite tuned in to making good music. I have those Harbeths as well. Best speakers I have had to date.. Although I think a big part of this for many (including myself) is that the search for soul moving is not going to come from the music.. Not really.. Its going to come on the inside. And no one throughout history has really been able to be moved all the time. Moments of soul moving come on from time to time but nothing is permanent grasshopper. All is an illusion. So get that bong out and get yourself in a different mood.. Step out of what you have been listening to and check out KFJC 89.7 online for some music that does not follow the mainstream. Find what you like and you can always buy it. Bandcamp is a good online source for tons of very different music It’s not one of the sites that you have to pay premium $ . They do have lossless,,etc. My sense is the stuff you pay premium for will not be "new music" but standards that they know they can sell a lot of. I’m sure there must be exceptions though and those sites may have "alternative/ambient" There are many different genre’s of shows that air on that station and you may have to search for the type of show you want but there are some really good ones. Tues & Wes night 7 pm Cali time. Sun morning 9a Cali time. Many others that go into alternative genre.. Have no idea what you like but that station will likely have a time slot of it. They dont really do classical nor hip hop or rap for the most part. Glad of that for no rap or hip hop but could use more classical of the non dark horse variety.. The station has been my back up for when Im not playing vinyl or cd’s.. They have gotten more into a version of metal which doesnt appeal to me these days ..but lots of other stuff .. This is a non profit station based in Los Altos Hills, CA..

Guitarsam,
thanks for the response but how do I use that in my stereo system?
ben

you can use something like jriver media center or foobar2000 to ron audio through the freqshifter filter