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In the Thread: Audio critique – open your mind!
Post Subject: Re: Show me the Sound!Posted by livemusic on: 6/30/2006
Romy,
You are absolutely right, saying "audiophile" which is not capable to hear any criticizm about his system, is very far from inderstanding what the music is. As an amator painter, a joined (long ago) to a group of amators like me, gathering every week around master (thruly professional), presenting our own opuses to the group and trying to understand what's wrong/good during free discussion. I still remember me presenting my painting first time: you are staying naked against the crowd, I tell you! Lot of people come and go, uncapable to tolerate another person attacking his very intimate and precious work. And only those which could bear and analyze painful critical feedbacks, made any progress.
But, there is a point I cannot fully agree with you, saying "music and audio are absolutely not related entities and audio is a purely self-contained and encapsulated field". Not for me. Yesterday I put a record of I.Moravec playing Beethoven on my TT. At this very minute my dauther decided to vacuum her carpet in adjacent room, so I started to hear "Pathetique" with a pronounced backgroud noise. In the middle of the first part I thought to myself:"What he is doing? It is Beethoven and not Dvorzak, it is an oil on canvas and not aquarell on paper! Too soft, delicate and melancholic..." Here my dauther finished with her carpet, and suddenly all subtle sonic nuances took their place in whole picture. I was absolutely convinced; beauty and inner logical structure of the performance were revealed. Perhaps, some advanced professional musiciants prefer to simply read scores, and not to play records. But plain music lovers like me consume music by means of somebody elses performance. And I have different perception hearing music from the first five rows of concert hall than standing far away in the corner behind the column.
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