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When I listen to my system.......

As I have stated many times, I listen to the musicianship and the composition. As I listen to SRV, just as an example, there are three musicians working together to create a "performance". How is it that anyone can put tone, sound staging, or anything else with the "sound" before the performance. There is much information on our recordings, and generally, many of these recordings are just so so with the fidelity. In fact, why do many listeners only listen to top notch recordings of higher fidelity, of the "sound", rather than appreciate those qualities I look and listen for. Is it because I was a singer / vocalist in my youth? Is it because I was around musicians who shared the joy of "music"? Is it because at a very early age, I was introduced to big band music and eclectic performances by so many, via my dad (he would have been 100 today; happy birthday dad). Yes, I consider myself an audiophile, because I spend money on gear and am careful with my dedicated room....my system allows me to hear more of the performance. But, it is the "music", the "performance", that matters most to me. I suppose I am feeling a bit nostalgic today, because of my pops. I am bringing this up again, because I do not understand the mentality of folks who listen differently than I. I know this subject might be ad nauseum to many, but some of the folks I used to design systems for, became less interested in the music, and more about the sound, placing the music and performance secondary, or not at all. I am just venting. If you would like to add to this post, I welcome all thoughts. No judgement from me. I wish everyone well. Enjoy! MrD.

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limomangus
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LOL Radio...

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pcrhkr
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  • The S2100 is a beautiful work of art as an integrated. There was no where in my area to demo one. I am very happy with what I ended up with. But the impressive build quality of the Yamaha is top notch. Not upper crust appeal because audiophiles have not learned that price does not always produce better sound. It would be fun to compare some of the equipment like this to the much more expensive ones to see how much more dollars for that little gain in sound. Component matching and the room make more difference than $$$$$$
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unreceivedogma

Hi-end audio allows you to hear the music the way the artist intended you to hear it. That doesn’t mean that you don’t listen to great music that was not optimally recorded. You make do with what you got.

You are correct that the hi-end audio should deliver the music the way the artist intended.

What artists don’t know is that all mics and speakers sound un-natural with distortion noise. So, all recordings (and audio systems) sound un-natural/noisy like a left speaker in below video.

https://youtu.be/IHf_FSa8amE?si=korT0IHNnDqZVGsT

I’m not an artist but I want to make a natural sound distortion-free recording. So, I made a natural sound microphone and record a 1st natural sound video. Compare the distortion noise of my mic and other mics in below.

https://youtu.be/lW2oifRtdm4?si=zTKVkbtdeEpzpqrb

Alex/ WavetouchaudioPro

bjesien
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For decades I listened to gear, but with my latest spring tweak suspending the back right side of the transformer, and a polished thimble sized bowl ever so succinctly harmonizing that first point of reflection...it's now music to my ears. lol

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@mihorn 

“Artists don’t know…”

THAT is a remarkably arrogant statement. I have many friends who are professional performing and recording artists, incl my own daughter. I assure you they know what they are listening to. 

One is so tuned in to the colorations (the polite word for distortions) of different microphones that he can listen to a recording of a singer on my audio system and correctly identify the microphone that the vocalist was using. 

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