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Richard wrote:

What I was referring to is "serious" as opposed to more straightforward material. Maybe the music I listen to and the way I listen is more directly emotional and less intellectual. This is actually a whole different topic, maybe worth another thread? I am looking for a system that makes me relaxed, by being able to lose myself in the music and without analyzing it from a technical perspective too much. This may result in prioritizing comfort over complexity to some degree. I am not saying that complexity and comfort are mutually exclusive and actually think they should not be, but they may be within the limitations of a system.

This is exactly “it” and this subject worth not “worth another thread” but worth the “worth entire hobby”. You see, it is not about the emotional vs. intellectual listening but rather about overload vs. underload your system with “seriousness”. If you read carefully the Introduction and objective part of “My Playback” section (the most important sections out there) then you would see that I introduced a concept of a “consciousness of a playback system” and playback’s ability to “interpret” musicality. That has very direct relation to what we are talking about.

The seriousness and complexity of music is neither your property nor property of your relationship with musicality but rather the property of composed, performed music. A playback is a next interpretive layer that is capable to alter the level of “delivered seriousness” and “delivered complexity”.  That is what I call the “distortions of complexity”. If music is light and “not-loaded”, then the playback system should transmit this ease perfectly transparent. If music has some serious or “difficult” intentions then a playback should allow them to go through. The quality of a playback can be determine but the playback amplitude of its delta between its ability to play “light” vs. “complex” or the ability to inherent and embrace the original musical intentions.

Of course there is a high-eng of those things… The high-eng of the playback system building is to make your system to actively intrude that “complexity faithfulness” and introduce own intentional “distortions of complexity”. This is what conductors do and we are in the very same position: only we use different means and the different tools. However, this is really “thin” area and the basic idea that I would like to express answering you is that the “seriousness accuracy” is very important. Some system can’t play “too light” some system can’t play “too complex”. Some, topologies and implementation scenarios are more prone to one or another pole but the assortment of “complexity faithfulness” or the ability of a system to introduce a larger “dynamic range of seriousness” is one of the keys for system’s capacity and “high-endness”.

Rgs,
Romy the Cat

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