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What do you choose first SOUND or MUSIC?

Hi folks,

We all like music otherwise we wouldn't spend bucks to listen to it's best. I have a friend who has a very decent inexpencive high-end setup and he mostly sacrifices the music he likes to a beeter recorded albums. Another words does that make a sence to listen to the music that is only good recorded to get the best from your stereo system in sacrifice to what you realy like to listen? I love Jethro Tull and I know that most of its albums very poorly recorded. On the other side most of Frank Sinatra's albums are very well mastered but whenever I would play Sinatra is just for the sport to test my stereo.
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audio999
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50% SOUND AND 50% MUSIC !!
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marakanetz OP
5,473 posts
 
Cool answers! I always choose the music first and even my analogue setup allowes me to "adjust" my tonearm to a different styles of music. Currently it's "positioned" to a Rock/Fusion with bright upper mids. Guess what? I lift it up a little higher from newtral position. On the other hand I had a little frustration that my rock collection became to sound dim with pretty musical units. I talked over specialists and they advised me to play with VTA which gives you wider possibilities to adjust your needs. Certainly, I do sacrifice for music and still continue to have fun.
cornfedboy
1,645 posts
 
marakanetz: give us a break. i think you're makin' this stuff up out of whole cloth and a smattering of audio myths derived from god knows what sources. provide us the details, if you can. in particular, explain this bit: ** I talked over specialists and they advised me to play with VTA which gives you wider possibilities to adjust your needs** does this mean you adjust the vta for each record? each genre? each mood? how do you keep track? is your arm metered? please give us a listing of your $100k system components

-kelly
detlof
1,899 posts
 
No Kelly, to me Marakanetz makes very good sense. As you know, one can voice ones system very differently, by playing around with the VTA. The higher the angle, the more snappier the stuff gets, until the point is reached, where it gets bleached and screechy. I am lucky enough, to be able to adjust VTA from my listening position, in very tiny increments, so I can adjust it all by ear....and no Kelly, not with every LP, as the famed Enid Lumley used to do with her Mapleknoll.
Cheers, Detlof
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