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The Sound or Music

I listen to all genres of music but really enjoy it with good sound. I know of people who just love one particular type of music but don't care at all about audio. My late relative just loved classical music and had hundreds of good records but his system was like bad transistor radio. He had means but was not interested in better system at all. Music, for him was 99.9% and sound 0.1% of the pleasure. He was most likely missing half of instruments of orchestral music, he listened to - either by limited frequency response or very poor resolution. He was a music lover. Am I a music lover or just only an audio freak?
What about you?
kijanki
hellofidelity
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I would listen to music on a crappy boom box if that's all I had. It's difficult for me to imagine life without music. I prefer listening to music on a nice hifi, but I've learned that just because a component or system is "high end" doesn't make it "musical".
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kijanki OP
3,575 posts
 
Thank you Elizabeth - I feel a little better.

Jamiek, Hellofidelity - Imagine that you have choice of two versions of the same orchestral performance:

- exceptional performance recorded 50 years ago with
really bad sound and a lot of noise.
- recently released, not as great but recorded beautifully.

What would you choose? Said relative of mine would not hesitate selecting first one while I would always select the second. I'm perhaps audio freak but am not as bold as Elizabeth to admit it.

Onhwy61 - In example above it might be trade-off between 10% performance difference for 90% sound improvement. Is it still sound over substance?
Whole experience is important to me - substance AND sound.
elizabeth
6,726 posts
 
Here's a test:
Suppose desert island: the choice:
Either you get perfect stereo system, but limited to your favorite 300 recordings...never any additional, forever.
OR, you have a crummy boombox, and thousands of interesting recordings, with new stuff constantly being airlifted in.. but you are forever stuck with the crummy boombox as the ONLY way to play.
you must choose one only: which one would you choose?
A very tough call for an Audiophile, I tried to give enough for the perfect system recordings to lure you in.... HAH!
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kijanki OP
3,575 posts
 
"perfect stereo system, but limited to your favorite 300 recordings"...or "crummy boombox, and thousands of interesting recordings"

"you must choose one only"

Elizabeth you are a very cruel person!
elizabeth
6,726 posts
 
Just call me: Elizabeth the Cruel
HAH HAH HAH HAH HAH HAH
as I cackle gleefully....
(I'd have a hard time too....)
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