Ricardo -> RE: Listening and "listening" (Sep. 11 2006 16:36:33)
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For me, music is too beautiful and powerful to listen to "passively". People take for granted the fact we have recording technology. Imagine all the thousands of years people listened to music and really had to focus because all they had was the memory of it. There was a story of Mozart, how the score for a religious piece was kept in a vault and performed only on special occasions, but he saw the performance only once, and later scored it out and made variations on it. The church thought someone had broken into the vault, but in the end it revealed Mozart had photographic memory and total recall. Anyway, I always try to focus on what I am listening to, even when going to sleep. Unless of course I think whatever it is SUCKS. [;)] But even then, I rather not waste precious time and I will simply not listen to it, and CERTAINLY not go on and on about how I think it sucks on a forum say. People are doing this contantly on the internet. If some one forces me to listen to something I don't like, that is different. I will be happy to give my 2 cents. Hifi is definantly important. But I get a nice warm fuzzy feeling listening to old records, or even CD's mastered from them. But the highest quality available is ideal. I get into peoples cars and hear how they have the bass up too loud, or it is only midrange or something and think to myself what a shame they are missing out. Speakers are really important. That is the voice of the audio you hear. You can have the best audio source, the most expensive and hi tech player or hi power amp, or whatever, but if you have crappy speakers, then there was no point to it all. Ricardo
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