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In the Forum: Playback Listening
In the Thread: Can a ultimate playback system bring us True Lasting 'Happiness'?
Post Subject: Music blows, yes!Posted by drdna on: 12/11/2006
 Romy the Cat wrote:
In fact, I might report that the most powerful moments of my personal experience listening “reproduced sound” took place in context of incredibly poor audio. Therefore, I do not feel that a perception that has need to consume musical spiritualism might be benefited by Audio advances. On another side of the argument – any single example that I have seen of stating the opposite – “Music could be enriched by Audio” – people end up with self-serving self-deception and chasing the completely unnecessary windmills.


I absolutely agree with this, but I offer a third alternative, that audio helps us hear music like a window helps us see.  When I listened to Rautavaara's Cantus Arcticus, I arrived too late and listened from outside the auditorium until they had finished the first movement.  Yet, it was so beautiful, muffled through the wall, that I was deeply moved.  Sometimes a piece of music is powerful enough to overcome obstacles like this.  To me the audio system is to be designed to remove these obstacles.
 

 Romy the Cat wrote:
The du Pre’s Edgar ... “blows” REGARDLESS OF AUDIO INGREDIENTS THAT WERE USED.  It would be possible to assess the depth of the “du Pre blowing” inflicted to a listener by use of different audio method.


Exactly!  But the distinction is that in acoustics we measure objective data, and in audio we are listening subjectively to things.  We may assume that we can find a way of measuring the differences we hear if we look hard enough, or not, but what is important is whether the end result is insulting to the ears or beautiful.  It is because of this subjective nature of things that music and audio are bound together at this level, because what is important is whether the audio is making music or noise to our ears.

 Romy the Cat wrote:
If you juts generally hungry and has no idea what you would like to eat then you go from resonant to resonant convincing yourself that that meal was better then other meal. However, when you have exact sense what precisely you would like to eat then how important for you would be the debate about advantages of vegetarianism?


Yes, my problem is that I know what I want to eat, but I don't know what to instruct the chef on which spices to use.  I tell the waiter (audio salesman) I want something really tasty!  He replies: The tasty things are very expensive, but look how deliciously described they are on this menu (Stereo magazine).

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