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<p class="Wp-Normal-P"><span class="Normal-C">Musicality, when applied to audio reproduction, causes controversy in the audiophile
world. But it really is very simple - we do want to listen to music through our hi-fis,
don't we?</span></p>
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<p class="Wp-Normal-P"><span class="Normal-C-C0">The view is well articulated by the reviewer, Michael Lavorgna, in a piece he wrote
in December 2007. Here he is:</span></p>
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<p class="Wp-Normal-P"><span class="Normal-C-C0">"The more we attempt to dissect the listening experience and zoom in on a particular
component's performance, the farther we move from the enjoyment of the recorded performance
and musicality. At times, we seem to get so caught up in the minutiae of hifi mechanics
(as distinctly opposed to musical nuance), we lose sight of the music. We start listening
to the hifi, not the music. We start to praise the things hifis do that don't mean
a thing to music. The tail wags the dog while the cat's away. Thus begins the hifi
sickness (and the need for 500 reviews per month).</span></p>
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<p class="Wp-Normal-P"><span class="Normal-C-C0">But if we focus back on the music, I think we'll find music is much less fussy. It's
much more generous and forgiving. It can speak to us through our car's stereo, our
iPod, from down the street, in a crowed bar, on an airplane, a bus or a phone. Nearly
anywhere. The only place I've found the power of music to be somewhat tamed and caged
in is at hifi shows.</span></p>
<p class="Wp-Normal-P"><span class="Normal-C-C0"> </span></p>
<p class="Wp-Normal-P"><span class="Normal-C-C0">Music is satisfying. HiFi isn't. It's a sickness really. If you find yourself fretting
along the lines of so much gear, so little time, you've got the hifi sickness. However,
if you find yourself lamenting so many recordings, so little time, I'd say you've
got a healthy hifi relationship.</span></p>
<p class="Wp-Normal-P"><span class="Normal-C-C0"> </span></p>
<p class="Wp-Normal-P"><span class="Normal-C-C0">As a 2nd generation hifi hobbyist, I've lived with the sickness all my life. I call
it a sickness but I really mean that in an endearing way. As a member. A carrier.
One who is infected and afflicted. Hifi vampirism. Once bitten, it's always better
in the dark. Goldilocks enters the house of a thousand bears and she's never heard
from again.</span></p>
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<p class="Wp-Normal-P"><span class="Normal-C-C0">So sure, the pursuit can seem more interesting than the goal when riding the hifi
hobby horse. We can even become experts in perceiving differences. Nuanced in noticing
the sonic flavor of paper, beryllium, electrolytic capacitors, ferrite and alnico.
As expert listeners, we can second guess designers, topologies, circuits and parts
choice. There's no end to how much more we can know compared to the people who actually
design and build the stuff we listen to. They really need to listen to all of us
instead of spending so much time listening to the stuff they're building. Our prowess
as expert hifi listeners is nearly boundless. We've heard The Difference.</span></p>
<p class="Wp-Normal-P"><span class="Normal-C-C0"> </span></p>
<p class="Wp-Normal-P"><span class="Normal-C-C0">Exactly how all this expertise relates to the enjoyment of listening to music on
our hifi remains a mystery. Yet as listeners that is our only job.</span></p>
<p class="Wp-Normal-P"><span class="Normal-C-C0"> </span></p>
<p class="Wp-Normal-P"><span class="Normal-C-C0">There's a choice to be made. Do we want to be an expert hifi listener or enjoy listening
to music on a hifi? Certainly both are noble pursuits. But we can't have it both
ways. It's an either/or deal in the best Kierkegaardian sense. Maybe, just maybe,
you can turn it on and off at will. I believe some people call this 'critical listening'
versus listening for pleasure. I certainly believe this is possible but not as easy
as some might think. A delicate balance to be sure.</span></p>
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<p class="Wp-Normal-P"><span class="Normal-C-C0">Yes, I just quoted myself. But I said what I meant so why not. Now is also a good
time to share my definition of the term musical as it applies to hifi gear: the experience
of listening to music on a hifi where the music, its qualities and attributes, become
the listener's sole focus. The cure lies in tying these two observations together.
The Art in the mechanics equate to a musical presentation, i.e. the hifi dissipates
as the music comes into focus. A delicate balance and disappearing act rolled into
one. I think that's what reviewers mean when they say a hifi is "magical" or "eerie".
Maybe not.</span></p>
<p class="Wp-Normal-P"><span class="Normal-C-C0"> </span></p>
<p class="Wp-Normal-P"><span class="Normal-C-C0">In a very important way, we're leaving our hifis behind along with our cherished
hifi listening expertise. We don't need it and it actually gets in the way. Listening
to music on a hifi is an aural illusion and you can only focus on the profile or
the vase, never both.</span></p>
<p class="Wp-Normal-P"><span class="Normal-C-C0"> </span></p>
<p class="Wp-Normal-P"><span class="Normal-C-C0">Since Art is inherent in the mechanics of the listening experience, the act of listening
is not bound by objective measures. And no matter how expert one becomes in writing
or reading (or thinking) about hifi, there's no substitute for listening. Art appreciation
lies in the experiencing and the only real credential in terms of Art appreciation
that amounts to anything is time. Time spent listening in hifi's case. A Listener.
And the artful hifi hobbyist spends his time listening to music. If we focus on the
hifi and what it's doing, the art dissipates."</span></p>
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