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jamikl wrote:

On most music I listen to my very average gear is OK but loses it as the complexity of the music increases.

It is not only with your gear. Most of audio systems fall apart with increase of musical complexity.

jamikl wrote:

Now I have reached a stage where I am wanting to be IN the music somehow.  Involved.  Hear the intent of the piece.

Be very careful now and what you are looking is NOT the properly of audio gear. The audio gear might be an enable in some way but not the provider of in-depth musical intercourse.  Look somewhere else, outside of the realms of audio conventional audio.

jamikl wrote:

The gear I have prevents this as it doesn't discriminate enough - if you understand me.  I hear resonances which stop me following lines played by instruments.  I notice that there is still a mish mash of sound- even though somehow more enjoyable than the old radio-when many groups of instruments are playing different parts or even  the same part.  I cannot really get into what is going on.  This starts to happen with a jazz big band- say a Duke Ellington tone poem and continues on up as the music becomes more complex.  It is OK with small groups and chamber music.  The resonances in the system are always a problem. .

I think the use of word “resonances” was not exactly accurate. I think I understand what you are trying to say, even though I do not exactly agree with you.

jamikl wrote:

Several years ago I had a part horn system-not following your ideas-but still horn and I liked what happened when I listened through it.

What happened?

jamikl wrote:

Circumstances change and I don"t live in my own house or use my own gear.  I can't modify or clutter this house but I do have time.  You showed a German system, can't remember the name - something gamma.  There were smaller versions of that which may work here and  the idea I think is to build it one unit at a time and listen.

Sure, you can build it. However, I would like you very clearly understand that your desire to build some kind of replica of the Gamma, or any playback for this matter, has nothing to do with your interests of “being IN the music somehow”.  Building, organizing and maintaining a truly capable playback is a self-contained task with own objective and own motivations. Do not confuse audio interests and creative interests. You might combine them if you can but you shall not confuse them.

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