When I am listening to music there are several areas that are important:
- The first is the hardest to define : to me there has to be some heart and soul in the music for me to think it is worth listening to.
- Like several people on this forum I like to hear the music as close to the way that the person making and recording it wanted me to. They put a lot of effort into getting the music to sound the way they wanted it to be heard so I put a lot of effort into reversing that process.......So, I like to listen on a really good system.........I want to hear all the detail and I don't want anything added or removed.
- I like to hear the quality of the instrumentation.......for me the player spent time choosing the particular version of the instrument so I want to hear all about it........I want to hear the way the piano rings , to feel the reed in the instrument cut the air, to hear a good acoustic guitar ring to feel the slap of a bass drum.
- If there is a vocalist , I want to feel they are singing just for me and to experience their presence in the room.
- I want to know where they were singing or playing I want to hear the signature of the room on the acoustics.
- In addition , I like to hear the human aspect, the slight mistake, the wrong note, the edit the flaw
Nice to be able to go back to trust and friendship!!!!!!!!!
It's a mixed up sensation this being alive
Oh! it wears a man down into the ground
It's the strangest elation
I can't describe it
Oh it leaves a man weary
It makes a man frown..............................Chris Simpson ( "Mixed Up Sensations" 1975 Martin's Cafe )
It's a mixed up sensation this being alive
Oh! it wears a man down into the ground
It's the strangest elation
I can't describe it
Oh it leaves a man weary
It makes a man frown..............................Chris Simpson ( "Mixed Up Sensations" 1975 Martin's Cafe )