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In Reply to: RE: Back to " Why do most musicians have lousy stereos. " posted by tonyjack on July 16, 2012 at 12:31:44

The most important thign is this:

"And apparently jazz musicians, too. Keith Jarrett, as he expounded at great length in this column last year (Oct. 2005), has benefited greatly, both personally and professionally, from his awareness and appreciation of superior audio gear. He says the sound of his commercial recordings has steadily improved as he’s evolved his home-stereo rig, since he can now better evaluate the sonics of the test pressings of his discs prior to release."

He thinks of home audio as practicing/training---not for making music, but for making recordings.

And actually it may benefit musicians at this level to be able to *stop* hearing music and start hearing audio, the "texture" of the substance, just as late 19th and 20th century visual artists started to think less about the "story conveyed by the image" but the specific physicality of the atoms and light interacting with the physical artifact they produce.

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