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In the Forum: Playback Listening
In the Thread: Remembering Sound…
Post Subject: that reminds me of somethingPosted by Dominic on: 11/20/2006
Some may remember this: http://www.clarisonus.com/blog/?p=85
somewhere mixed into the responses to the article is something very important for understanding of sound playback. A someone who went by the moniker Shuvam wrote about learning to listen. To real sounds.
i'll excerpt the following

Shuvam said: There are so many sounds which in reality are dramatically different from the impressions we carry in our heads when we describe them in oft-used phrases. I have discovered quite often that when I really _listen_, the real sounds are not nice or pretty. And I hadn’t even noticed this till now. This has been a humbling experience; a forty-year-old engineer with engineering degrees from one of the top institutes in country suddenly wakes up and realises that he did not even know how to listen."

 You have to learn how to hear, and not for soundstange or bass extension, but for the colour and character and texture of real sound.
Rom, you make an important point yourself about understanding how the sound you remember affected you.
I generally remember for those 'ah' moments a feeling of connectedness, like the electronics and acoustics drop away and a connection with the meaning and life of the performance is established as thought it is happening here and now. Sounds a bit daft but that's music for you. The interesting thing to note, that i was hopefully getting across in the other thread was that each manifestation of a playback system that creates an 'ah' sound speaks of the performance from a different aspect. I'm always trying to figure out what it is that can finally get that 'ah' under more than one condition.

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