The power of music

I have not listened to my HIFI much lately as I have been very busy at uni but tonight I have been listening to it again and I always almost crying because of the emotions of the music. Music has done done that to me for ages. It just shows you have to be without somthing to appreciate it.

I was depressed tonight but the music has changed all that. I think having a decent HIFI sysem is money well spent in indeed. doubt a £100 aiwa would be able to replay the same emotions. I can't wait till I can afford a mid range system to put right some of the minor niggles in mine.

 

yeah, I can't wait to buy a decent stereo amp for music, my yammy just doesn't cut it...but saying that some songs / kind of music do sound better than others tho...

 

Whilst I agree with you about the effects listening to music can have on the listener, I don't think that the above is really true. I have been listening to music seriously - rather than just hearing whatever those around me are playing - for about 20 years, with my first 'system' being a v.cheap Ferguson record/tape/radio combination(I've owned Aiwa midi's too), and can quite clearly remember being moved on a number of occasions whilst listening to music through it.

IMHO a 'serious', or expensive hifi is designed to extract the highest amount of detail(and the largest pile of cash ) contained within a recording and thus relay the emotive content more easily to the listener, but I think that you can still be moved by music through something as simple as a transistor radio to no less a degree than you would be had you listened to that same song via the 'best' system imaginable.

All IMHO of course.

 

I agree with goomer here, but it has to be said that having something thats pleasing to the ears makes it all the better...

 

for me part of the enjoyment of music is the way it vividy brings back memories associated with that piece of music. however i find there is a lower limit to what is acceptable in replay quality for serious listening. too many times have i heard bad mini / midi and even seperates systems pull bass and treble lines apart, with vocals that sound nasal and out of time with the rest of the music. as long as the music flows as one (and this is by no means an expensive task) then i'm happy. extra detail, deeper bass, etc. are icing on the cake. at the opposite end there is also a point where spending more becomes almost pointless thanks to the tiny improvements gained and therefore imho is a willy waving exercise pure and simple.
unfortunately as music replay quality is a purely subjective thing the upper an lower cut off points are different for everyone.
cheers


julian

 

Fair play - my first CDP (and turntable) was a Sony 305CD midi from 1991, and I used to get as turned on by good tunes on that as I have on various incarnations of my seperates - the Sony's turntable was pretty good and although the CDP was a brillo pad and always screwing up, when it worked it wasn't too bad.

Of course, we're all in it for the musical communication - it's amazing how much good music can do for your mood