mike1127
Member of the Trade: Brilliant Zen Audio
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We know the stereotype---a professional musician with an awful home audio system. A content musician.
My theory is that musicians actively participate in making music, so they listen actively, involving imagination and body movement.
Imagine a recording of a beautiful note on the oboe, beginning with a gentle swell, vibrato entering a moment later, slowly ebbing with great delicacy.
It takes a system with good dynamics, timbral accuracy, fantastic imaging, and more in order to convey this sound accurately.
Suppose a musician listens to this recording on a poor system. Having such extensive experience with live music, she needs only the faintest of cues to conjure up the musical feeling of this sound. She may breath with it or participate in other ways, mental and physical. This is so natural for a musician that I think many don't notice the quality of the audio system at all.
I try to incorporate this lesson by bring active participation to my own listening. I use my imagination, wave my hands, breath with the music.
If I lost my job and had to sell everything but my ipod and crappy headphones, I could still enjoy the music by using active listening.
My theory is that musicians actively participate in making music, so they listen actively, involving imagination and body movement.
Imagine a recording of a beautiful note on the oboe, beginning with a gentle swell, vibrato entering a moment later, slowly ebbing with great delicacy.
It takes a system with good dynamics, timbral accuracy, fantastic imaging, and more in order to convey this sound accurately.
Suppose a musician listens to this recording on a poor system. Having such extensive experience with live music, she needs only the faintest of cues to conjure up the musical feeling of this sound. She may breath with it or participate in other ways, mental and physical. This is so natural for a musician that I think many don't notice the quality of the audio system at all.
I try to incorporate this lesson by bring active participation to my own listening. I use my imagination, wave my hands, breath with the music.
If I lost my job and had to sell everything but my ipod and crappy headphones, I could still enjoy the music by using active listening.