I think it’s very clear that when Newbee said “you” he was not referring to you personally. Substitute “one”.for “you.”
A little too sensitive?
The joys of mid-fi
What I’m writing about here applies to classical music but might have parallels in other music too. I’ve brought this topiic up in different ways before.
Years ago when I was blissfully ensconced in mif-fi, I could easily compare different performances of the same classical work with the confidence that the sound quality would be essentially the same. There would be no issues of soundstaging, detail, et al that would make it hard for me to compare. It was easy to judge a performance on its own merits without complicating factors. Now, it’s almost impossible to assess a performance without placing SQ into the mix. A mediocre recording might be extremely attractive due the sound alone, Conversely, a very good performance might be shunted aside as “unlistenable.”
Oh, for the good old days of mid-fi! 😁
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I identify as a music-lover. I would never downplay the potential for enjoyment when well-recorded music is played on a nice system. That would be absurd! What I do not identify with is an inability to be engaged by music unless it’s presented in high-end sound. Of course, if the sound is so poor as to be garbled, that’s another story. What I’ve noticed is, the better the sound, the more my attention is drawn to sonics/system. I don’t find I’m more engaged by the music. My capacity for enjoying music began way before I heard better-than-mid-fi sound and I still utilize that same capacity to this day, whether I'm listening to the car radio, at home on my modest system or to a friend's high-end system. |
@ghdprentice , you and I are listening in way different ball parks; for example, I know that your speakers cost more than my entire system would MSRP for. And I have seen pictures of your room. With that out of the way, even though it is not the minute detail and etc that you listen for when you play a LP or a CD, if your system was not capable of reproducing that and much more (such as the reproduction of sound stage and imaging and the air surrounding a solo) would you miss all of that and would it still suck you into the performance the way that I am sure it currently does? |
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