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In the Forum: Audio Discussions
In the Thread: What lives in Symmetric Sound?
Post Subject: Re: Imposing the System on our Musical PreferencesPosted by slowmotion on: 12/5/2004
Hi Chirag, all

 Chirag wrote:
Hello Jan,</p> <p>The sequelae of this topic is strangling!




&nbsp; </p> <p>My musical preferences, as anyones should/do, have been changing over the past few years;
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Heck, its turning into "chicken soup" music (even though I do not eat animal) along with my old 80's new wave records, mahler (yes Kitty, i am a masochist),&nbsp;old bluesman cds, shosta strings etc...</p>


Yes, I see your point,
for myself I listen to mostly anything , but mostly classical/opera/jazz/prog rock.


<p>Regarding your post, I do not feel you should let the music you connect with now entirely judge the system; in my experiences, my system was&nbsp;ruthlessly dictating the music I listen to...look at all those meathead audiophiles playing Diana Krell over and over again to&nbsp;judge the new DAC or wire coming out.&nbsp; They're so screwed in this arena that it started to become a situation where I stopped laughing and got scared.</p>


I may have expressed myself badly, intentions and emotions are hard to put into words. I build most of my system my self, a continuing journey that started over 30 years ago. The first music I can remember as a child is opera ( my mother sang )
so when I started building, my systems had to be able to cope with grand opera
and similar music.
Also my mother, brother and sister, and myself, all played different instruments,
so I got used to the sound of different instruments very early.
Sorry for sidetracking , I'll get back on topic now. Wink

So, my system have to cope with opera, of course, and also small
jazz emsembles , noisy rock music, single voice and so on.....
Not so easy , but we all learn and develop all the time, hopefully.
I don't think I let the system dictate the music, it's the music that dictates the system.
For me personally a system that makes everything sound beautiful is no good, music doesn't sound like that IMHO. But we are all different , thankfully,
and we all listen for different things and in different ways.
I try to build and develop my system so that it comunicates the nerve
and drama and intentions of the performers and the music.
That's important to me.


<p>Going in slowly expanding circles,</p> <p>Chirag</p>


Yes, there's many different paths to the top of the mountain.
cheers , Jan

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