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Do you listen to your music through your equipment or do you listen to your equipment through your music?
 
I always listen to the Music first, from my Music collection library.

Then I go deep inside the recording's space, to touch the essence, the artist's inspiration.

Everything else; before, after, and between, is just an effervescence, like a dreamscape.

* The audio equipment is never apparent, always totally disappearing; it has to, if I truly want to listen to the music first.
 
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Yes.

99.9% of the time I listen to music through my system. On the rare occasion that I buy something new I listen to my equipment through my music.
 
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NorthStar said:
I always listen to the Music first, from my Music collection library.

Then I go deep inside the recording's space, to touch the essence, the artist's inspiration.

Everything else; before, after, and between, is just an effervescence, like a dreamscape.

* The audio equipment is never apparent, always totally disappearing; it has to, if I truly want to listen to the music first.
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Bob,

I want what you are on :)
 
I like my equipment to bring the music to life :) That's why especially like listening to 15 ips tapes.
 
Myles B. Astor said:
I like my equipment to bring the music to life :) That's why especially like listening to 15 ips tapes.
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I'm along these lines. Most of the music I really enjoy I actually don't need a good system to enjoy it. But put it on a good system, it goes beyond enjoyable, it becomes down right orgamsic! Eyes closed, involuntary body movements...:D
 
NorthStar said:
I always listen to the Music first, from my Music collection library.

Then I go deep inside the recording's space, to touch the essence, the artist's inspiration.

Everything else; before, after, and between, is just an effervescence, like a dreamscape.

* The audio equipment is never apparent, always totally disappearing; it has to, if I truly want to listen to the music first.
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You and me would get along real well !!
 
socfan12 said:
I'm along these lines. Most of the music I really enjoy I actually don't need a good system to enjoy it. But put it on a good system, it goes beyond enjoyable, it becomes down right orgamsic! Eyes closed, involuntary body movements...:D
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Haha...forget what Bob's got... I want what Allen is using :D
 
socfan12 said:
I'm along these lines. Most of the music I really enjoy I actually don't need a good system to enjoy it. But put it on a good system, it goes beyond enjoyable, it becomes down right orgamsic! Eyes closed, involuntary body movements...:D
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+1
 
joeinid said:
Bob,

I want what you are on :)
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It's free, you can get it at Amazon, anytime; it's called 'natural equilibrium state'. ;)
...Or simpler put; down-to-earth.

Seriously though; some 'decent' gear will help, with those very best music recordings.
Doesn't have to cost $100,000 though; you'll most likely get away with ten times less.
And anyway, it's all really relative, as in not absolute, or independent.

As for the music mediums themselves, well, you guys all know the song;
some people get their boat rocking from online (download) hi-res audio,
others from their turntables (analog LPs at 45, and 33 1/3 RPM),
and people like me, from multichannel SACDs and Blu-ray music concerts with lossless multichannel audio tracks (stereo LPCM too). ...And quality music recordings from stereo CDs by the best music record labels (music well recorded, mixed and mastered by the greatest and in the best studios, or venues).

The time we put into listening with enjoyment is the time that truly counts.
...And the preparation is as much from the music recordings themselves as it is in fine-tuning our gear and our brain.

It's a combination of all the components, our mental disposition included.
 
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socfan12 said:
I'm along these lines. Most of the music I really enjoy I actually don't need a good system to enjoy it. But put it on a good system, it goes beyond enjoyable, it becomes down right orgamsic! Eyes closed, involuntary body movements...:D
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Allen, if you ever find yourself in the Hunter Valley, which is the wine central of NSW Australia, while listening to my system, promise you won't do that on my couch, please.:D
 
Dang !!!

I knew this one...the answer is...the answer is...ummm...Can you use it in a sentence please ? LOL

I love my music but I truly believe I like the equipment (toying, tinkering, etc. ) 50% as much. I look to squeeze every last drop of quality I can out of items...and then I might move UP or try other things and repeat the squeezing..Doesn't matter what - could be tubes, cables (make my own), mats, cartridges, adjustments...sigh.

Heck, I have done things I didn't need to do just to do them (like recapping my Yamaha M65 Power amp - that was scary).

Long Live Vinyl....
 
NorthStar said:
I forgot; I love the music recorded on my DVD-Audio discs (hi-res audio: multichannel, and stereo).

* No one yet here mentioned Reel-to-Reel tape machines and R2R music recordings! ...Strange.
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Bob... Miles did in post #7. He is the R2R man! I would love a R2R somday. Not in the budget right now though.
 
NorthStar said:
I forgot; I love the music recorded on my DVD-Audio discs (hi-res audio: multichannel, and stereo).

* No one yet here mentioned Reel-to-Reel tape machines and R2R music recordings! ...Strange.
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Northstar..I was a Pioneer RT-1020H for a long time...but with the wealth of music ...recording became passe...still fun to watch though

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NorthStar said:
Oh, missed it.

* Anyone here listening to music through tape deck players, from cassette tapes recordings?

...Or listening to tape decks (cassettes), through music?
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Bob... I have a working Nakamichi Cassette Deck but alas no tapes. Well maybe a couple "live" shows somewhere in the house.
 
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