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In the Thread: Listening rooms and composers.
Post Subject: Rooms and ComposersPosted by Lbjefferies7 on: 5/17/2010
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Interesting.
When I moved my system and was just learning the new room and making changes, I was also listening to more Bach than usual. I mostly wanted to play Partitas, Inventions, Preludes, and Goldberg Variations. I was turned off by any cello work (which is terribly unusual for me), concertos, fugues, and WTC.
The system at that time was only pleasing with "typewriter music." Now that the speaker placement is nearly final, time-alignment is done and I am finally getting tone and imaging, I am playing more Mahler, Beethoven, Brahms, Schumann, Dvorak, Liszt, and Mussorgsky. I haven't tried Bruckner, but Haydn, Mozart, and a few others are unattainable at this point. Of course, I'm not sure exactly is going on, but I think that the room and system is obviously more capable of rendering rhythm and time readily (suiting music that is meaningful in these ways), whereas music whose meaning is more dependent on tone, timber, space, and so on just doesn't feel "right" or even comfortable without the proper ingredients.
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