Jazz listening: Is it about the music? Or is it about the sound?

Money trumps all.

mijostyn circa 3/25/2021

Ain’t that the truth. The above phrase has quite a meaning in today’s times.

One of my favorite record stores have been back open to the public for awhile now and it’s time for me to do some crate digging again. I never knew how meditatively pleasing it was for me until it was taken away. I’m ready for all this melancholy to go away. Oh what covid 19 has wrought. There is a tinge of blues in my post here when there shouldn’t be. But I guess that’s part of music and life.

A good sound help me to better appreciate what is not already my cup of tea...Enlarging my understanding musical scope...

Good music the one i love already dont need good sound but they are a marriage made in heaven anyway and like in a love affair, it is love that matters here not the need first...

My sound is so good now, i even listen nowadays the musical genre i listened to the less in the past : complete opera, because i can now see the singers walking on the theater or singing around me in some particularly good recording job...

It is thanks to my room mechanical equalization, because i has been able to control with it and some others device  the "listener envelopment " acoustical phenomena ...

Good sound help indeed....

Pesky, that's funny.  I had almost forgotten my first preamp was a Soundcraftsman with full spectrum equalizer.  Had that 4 years and have never had tone controls since.

Simple...

It should first be all about the music and if it's to your taste/pleasure...

Then look for a better recording and/or performance.

Duh?

DeKay

You can't listen to poorly recorded jazz, you can well-recorded jazz. I tried many times and failed, I can't listen to jazz at all any more. But Like Bill I used to be able to. Those guys are in the endless search of the right notes. Some jazzrock is another matter, even if sound quality leaves a lot to be desired. Mahavishnu Orchestra is the very best.