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jp wrote:

Ive only had experience with one room for any length of time but I can identify with the experiences of LBJ and Romy.  I could not bear to listen to Bruckner when my system was somewhat out of sorts while conducting experiments in my system.  Listening to Bruckner in a less than ideal state, I felt impatient and somewhat annoyed and mentally fatigued.  It was nearly impossible to get at or into Bruckner.  I had a much more enjoyable time listening to it on my portable cd player. In my attempts to locate the DPOL, I would use certain concertos and solo pieces to nail down the imaging but often times the sound/presentation was completely unsatisfactory when I changed to more sophisticated symphonic pieces such as Bruckner.  Quite frustrating and maddening.  So now when I do any sort of experiments I pretty much use Bruckner as my final test in evaluating my system.

I would not say that listening to Bruckner at even the worst equipment brings me impatience, annoyance or mentally fatigue of any kind. There are however different type of listening: regular listening and The Listening. In the high-end audio we go for The Listening and this is VERY far experience from regular listening.  The last weekend I had Bruckner’s The Listening even in a house of one of my local audio guys – it was the super event. I meant to write up about the event but my feelings of it still too fresh and to vulnerable to fuck it up with writing about it.

BTW, above I have promised that I will do write up about the “Bruckner room sound”. I did not do it yet. Well I did some sketching but it turned out to be a post not about the listening room but rather about Bruckner Sound and Audio. It is much wider than the subject of this thread and I had a lot of interest to write that article. I will compile it in a finish set of thought and will post it in a separate “Bruckner Sound and Audio” thread.

Here is an introduction section from it:

As the prelude to this post we have to very clearly understand that we are talking about audio and audio only. If you are not a fool then there is nothing to prevent you to get Bruckner whiteout any evolved audio – table radio or a car are perfectly fine. However if we presume the audio is able to make difference then let talk just about strictly audio aspects of reproduction the Bruckner sound.

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