What is meant exactly by the description 'more musical'?


Once in awhile, I hear the term 'this amp is more musical' for some amps. To describe sound, I know there is 'imaging' and 'sound stage'. What exactly is meant by 'more musical' when used to describe amp?

dman777

Saying without explaining anything that i am wrong is a joke not an opinion...

In the definition of the adjective "musical", taste there is for sure; but at the end it is not about taste ...It is more than taste, it is learned knowledge shared with all other humans as do any acoustician and musician or designer going toward a better understanding... Taste dont progress, they only can be educated by knowledge and relativized ... The perception of musicality and of what is more "musical" or less must be learned out of our uneducated tastes and sometimes in spite of them ...

A perception is not a taste ...Even if this perception can be judged positively or negatively ... "Musical" is a perception BEFORE being a taste and it stay a perception AFTER being adopted as a taste or not ...

But there is between taste and amygadala ( emotions) and perception and concept a dynamical relation called knowledge ...When we are at peace with our perceptions because our emotions dont oppose them , we are in a "musical" state of relaxation ...This state is a state before and after we taste it as good ...

Relaxation can be objectively controlled and induced in the body by meditation, in the same way a "musical" experience can be created and controlled and induced from a system/room/body in the mind , we can learn how to do it by setting the right conditions and parameters ... All this dont contradict the common place fact that this relaxed state is our taste too because we like it ...

There is no contradiction between heart and mind in any relaxed or contemplative state... This is why music as silence are musical states of peace ...We can understand and create peace as taught Christ the greatest acoustician ... 😊

Enough my point is made...

 

 Merry christmas to you and to your family ...

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@mahgister , enough with you . Btw, the Brain neural structures are whom handle all our body that makes that any kind of stimulus, musical or not, involve the whole or part body. The neural structure is in command. You are wrong too.

 
 

 

 

Work done by Daniel J. Levitin shows, "Musical activity involves nearly every region of the brain ... and nearly every neural subsystem."

@cleeds This is correct, and even more so when you're playing an instrument as opposed to simply listening to music. However the limbic system plays a major role; I had things boiled down a bit too much...

"Musical"  has different meanings to different people.

To some people, AC/DC sounds musical; others think Johnney Cash is musical; there are those who would call classical musical . . . and possibly the same applies to the quality of sound that different equipment produces. 

 

IMO, the term more musical refers to the overall presentation of a given work.

The pacing, smoothness, dynamics, harmonics etc. - everything one would hear with live music.  Some amplifiers may sound very quiet with no distortion, but they lack the "soul" of live music...very analytical.  Other amps sound very warm and overly smooth and veiled.

It is a rare amplifier or piece of audio gear that balances the extreme to find the nirvana which is "musical".

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