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Re: Musical and others tastes

I am sorry to say this but you seem to me to be a narrowminded individual Klaus and that explains why you have difficulty seeing beyond the measurements or even reading deeply into them. It also explains why you are trying to tell us that your profi monitors are the best when you don't have much experience with what they sound like with acoustic music. I see your agruments now in a whole new light and it is unfortunately a harsh and critical light.

Have you asked yourself WHY you don't like classical, jazz, dixieland etc.?? I have found that I can appreciate most kinds of music when I hear them live. Until my system reached a level of refinement that at least suggested live music I didn't "get" a lot of types of music either. In order to "get" many types of music, especially acoustic music that you seem to mostly reject, you need to be able to hear and appreciate the nuance and subtlty of the performance. This is simply not possible with most hifi. It is why classical music lovers are probably the most obsessive in getting the most from their systems, it is simply the most demanding music to accurately reproduce.

Hell if I had stayed with Rock or electronic music as my primary listening music I would have stayed with my Dynaudio Contour 1.8MkII speakers and big Simaudio Celeste W4250 amp (or the Sumo 9 I had before that). It even sounded OK with jazz. Maybe I would have bought a big pair of Klipsch speakers again (I used to own La Scallas and boy could they rock and loud!).

"Why should a "good" system change my musical taste? Why should a 3 star cook make me like spiced food?"

The why is simple, because a new or startling experience CAN change your perception of what you once thought you didn't like. A 3 star cook can perhaps make a meal so sublime that you end up not minding that there are spices that you supposedly don't "like". You control that aspect of your life Klaus by being open to experience or not being open. I would suggest that you see your mindset for what it is and that is set in concrete and not open to the experience. Hearing a Prokofiev symphony live will wake up the most dead set mind.

My girlfriend recently played 4 concerts for solo violin. At each concert she played the 24 Paganini Caprices. I don't expect you to know them but they are about the most difficult thing one can play in the entire violin repretoire. If you heard them on cd with a so so hifi you might find them unlistenable and unable to appreciate the superb musicianship that is necessary to perform them. Hearing them live in a hall had even those people who are not big classical lovers (but who came in a show of support) raving about how amazing the sound was how impressive to hear the musicianship she displayed. These people "got" it. I even turned one group into audiophiles partially because of the experience.



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