solderdude
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Post by solderdude on Sept 22, 2013 7:04:39 GMT
I found a similar threat on Changstar and thought it was a really good question. Thought it would be nice to have one here also. Here is my reason(s) for having music around. I listen to music seriously now and then and sit down for it and take the opportunity to listen out for nuances and 'goosebumps' and really enjoy well made recordings. I also like to listen to music occasionally just to relax(chill) or shut out others or sounds around me. Sometimes I have music playing softly in the background. In the car the music is on by default (don't drive much, my country is too small for that and gas prices too high ) I like playing music but it isn't a MUST or way of life. I don't listen out for 'flaws' in gear while listening to music and rather enjoy the music instead, don't need ultimate fidelity for that either in most cases.
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Post by Rabbit on Sept 22, 2013 7:45:45 GMT
I'm lucky in that I work with music for my living. Funnily enough, my own work is mostly that - work. I suppose a means to an end.
Listening is where my real interests lie. I get creative ideas from others' work, whether orchestral or pop but the music that means the most to me is not always the 'great' performance as in stunt music, but music that has a meaning behind it. When I identify what is behind the music that I listen to, it becomes a much more meaningful piece of music.
Of course, there is the usual thing, music to enhance mood and music that evokes memories. Also music on the move and in the car since I tend to move about. It's very helpful for me to be able to take a big portable collection with me when away from home; especially in foreign speaking countries. My hotel room or rented house becomes a mini 'England' for me once sound is playing.
Music plays a major part of my life and when listening for myself, the gear matters in no way whatsoever, funnily enough. I can hear through the flaws of equipment and allow the music to communicate with me whether it's from a dab radio or a high end hi fi.
I don't like hi fi snobbery in any way and IMO, if you are musical, you get just as much enjoyment from mp 3 as you do from massive speakers. If you are listening and therefore, criticising gear all of the time, then to me, you are a techno and not a muso. People who obsess about gear are quite irritating. I know people with extremely expensive gear and 10 or 20 CD' s to their name!!
Hi fi does seem to attract gearophobes who go on and on about a minor nuance, but for me, in the end, it's the music and absolutely not the gear.
If the gear communicates better, then that's great, but in spite of me trying gear out and writing about it, it's really not the be all and end all for me.
It's just a means of allowing a message to be delivered via music!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 22, 2013 18:13:09 GMT
I cant spend more than a day or so without music. Like most of you here I have music all over the house. I even have a Philips PIR controlled radio in the bathroom that switches on automatically when it detects you! I often listen very intently, and often get 'goosebump' moments. But I can also listen in a relaxed frame of mind and just let the sound wash over me. I have been steadily up-grading my system for over twenty years now. I knew what sound I wanted and I have it now. I am quite content with my sound and have seen no reason to 'up-grade' for the last few years. Only recently (for the reasons I stated in the 'streaming' thread) have I been forced to change my front end. Music has been of immense importance to me since I was around 11 or 12 years old. I even remember the exact moment. I had a an amazing, magical experience, whilst watching a documentary on TV called 'The Devil's Music', about the very early blues-men like Son House, Leadbelly and of course Robert Johnson. The music just seemed to touch me. Why on earth music that was (at that time) more than 40 years old and consisted mainly of field-hollers, modified gospel, and work-songs and of course some amazing guitar playing , should have such an effect on a little white boy from the West of Scotland, I'll never know. I can't really describe it properly, but I have absolutely loved music ever since. Especially blues! And especially Robert Johnson. I do realise that most people don't listen to, or seem to enjoy music, as much as I (or we) do, but I still cant understand them. How can anyone not love music. In fact an old friend often told me never to trust someone who says they 'don't like music', and I think he's right. I personally think there must be something missing with someone who genuinely doesn't like music.
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Post by madmac on Oct 13, 2013 15:22:44 GMT
I started a few months back with the whole headphone thing when I was in the middle of editing the recorded tracks of my metalband. I'm a truckdriver and spend untill 14hrs a day in my truck, so I did the editing with some Philips earbuds. Then I realised I needed something better (had an old Pioneer and a Sony MDR CD570 with completly disintegrated earpads in the house, both were inaducuate for the job) and I bought a Beyerdynamic DT770 Pro 80 ohm to use on my Macbook. Next I ordered a Superlux HD681 B for the fun of it and then a AKG K271 studio was found on 2dehands.be and later on I ordered a Somic MH489. So in a few months my pile of HP grew a lot I still mainly use them in my truck because it's the best way to have decent sound (the Somic has a 'subwoofer-like' bassrespons) in an invironment with badly chosen speakers.
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