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In the Thread: Accuracy vs. Musicality (and YMMV)
Post Subject: Musical IntelligencePosted by Paul S on: 8/17/2024
Some time ago Romy coined the term "musical intelligence". Not a lot has been said about this since then, but I put the term in my head and the idea snowballed into a notion of equipment that "adapted" to various musical genres. When I think of the (older?) term, "musical", I think back to the gear the term was applied to, "tubey", "full" sound from speakers that pretty much sounded like that no matter what they were playing. It may be that some equate "accuracy" with a sort of "relentless" quality, but I do not, although I have still have a little trouble thinking of "musical" as other than some sort of system "own sound". Since I am a Musical omnivore, I have spent considerable effort creating a system that can (re)produce Music of all stripes in a way that satisfies my cravings, and this requires, at a bare minimum, that playback invokes in me the same (or very similar) reactions and feelings that live performances do, which for me requires "differences between notes", pretty much the opposite of the old application of the term "musical" as applied to hi-fi. To each his own, of course, and I have heard some very engaging light jazz and sonatas played back by "musically voiced" systems.
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