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slowmotion wrote:

I think I see where you are going , Richard, with me it's the other way round. If I connect with the music I get exited, and for me personally I work towards a system that connects me to the music and the performers more. All to do with emotional listening for me, I agree with you there ...... cheers ,Jan

Hello Jan,

The sequelae of this topic is strangling! 

My musical preferences, as anyones should/do, have been changing over the past few years; the system I set up a few years go emphasized the types of music I listened to then - lots of indie, jazz, blues and some classical.  As I slowly began to expand my tastes to explore chamber, world, big classical, etc., I realized my system could not do what I asked of it; the bastard sat there ONLY able to play and explore the original limited genres...I hated it! 

Moving into a new place to start school gave me a fairly interesting opportunity - I ditched my entire amp/preamp/speaker/several dacs setup and streamlined to a relatively small headphone based playback...what I did not realize at the time was how much more MUSICALLY neutral this little system affected my own choices in genre/artist/performance/recording/message.  For example, I did not get Buxtehude before in the old system.  I "do" him now and embrace it.  Heck, its turning into "chicken soup" music (even though I do not eat animal) along with my old 80's new wave records, mahler (yes Kitty, i am a masochist), old bluesman cds, shosta strings etc...

Regarding your post, I do not feel you should let the music you connect with now entirely judge the system; in my experiences, my system was ruthlessly dictating the music I listen to...look at all those meathead audiophiles playing Diana Krell over and over again to judge the new DAC or wire coming out.  They're so screwed in this arena that it started to become a situation where I stopped laughing and got scared.

Now what are the consequences of starting to get this topic?  Ask me what on earth I should do about getting a new speaker/amp system!?!?!  If I did not have records, radio broadcasts and CD's to listen to, I would rather turn everything over to a big hard drive array (if this didn't screw up EVERYTHING) and listen to my music on a pair 3 ounce 4" tall speakers on my desk.  It cannot be done.  I've basically been doing the smallest possible system I could own for over a year now, and am just realizing that even this little system is not neutral enough (surprise!).  I don't know what is, but I know I can get "there" with some time and effort.

Going in slowly expanding circles,

Chirag

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