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In Reply to: RE: someone would have created a business to do that already. posted by mkuller on August 12, 2015 at 08:08:26
He,he,he..... You keep SQ challenged CDs ?
Fortunately, I've been a Recording Label conscious music buyer for as long as I can remember, but I guess it depends on the music genres you normally listen to how that works for you !
Playing mediocre recordings would be like eating something from my refrigerator I shouldn't
have put there in the first place !
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I think I just used that metaphor in a different form before reading this but while I agree that good recordings are a much greater pleasure to hear on a high end rig, then I also try not to fall into the hole of not playing things that are not that dynamic - thinking here of some older jazz recordings - or recently listened to some Django Reinhardt that was pretty bad from a recording perspective but there is no alternative really
Or even some late 80s CDs I have are quite lousy but it might be all there is unless they remaster a new release
JaroTheWise
...the recording is secondary.
I agree. To many people including me at times are listening to the sound of there system and not to music
Alan
I never implied that I listened for SQ satisfaction reasons first., but there really isn't
any "exclusiveness" between good music that is also well recorded.
I've never played the "Audiophile" game of listening to "Sonic Spectacullar" sound bytes,
I spend countless hours listening to various Symphonic works, or an hour or two listening
to contemporary Singer/Songwriters.or other works that convey some type of thoughtful
artistic endeavor to develop. If I fail to find some type of "muse" in what I listen to , it holds
no interest for me.
It positively is all about the "music" for me ,but my musical interests don't move much further
than what satifies my criteria of what is musical to myself !
I laugh when I read or hear this mantra over and over - that the music is first. I think everyone is honest with this but let's face it that this hobby is not in essence about only the music itself - as content - since you could listen on a complete crap system and still follow the essential gist of the music.
I even recall I had some friends years ago who had much bigger music collections than I did, and it was remarkable how they didnt much feel compelled to need a good sound system to play it on - or perhaps faced with the prospect of dumping a couple thousand dollars in 1980 money toward something they would have bought a bunch more albums instead.
In some ways it's like a contagion, that once you hear high end then it can be a drag to go back to crap - but if you don't hear it much then it doesnt matter too much. But I dont like to hear that this hobby is "all about the music" because while the music is at the center of it then it is possible to be into music and read about it etc but listen at pathetic levels of fidelity
JaroTheWise
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