Hi to everyone.
Guess I’m a different kind of gear-head to the normal mainstream.
I produce music, and appreciate a high-level monitoring system that is simple, high quality, and hopefully dead flat in response.
Took a long time to get to this point, but now feel I’ve got there with my current gear (pictured in Mag’s post).
Question is, does anyone else listen to CD music in this way for enjoyment?
I no longer involve myself in re-EQing recordings to sweeten them up, but instead just take what I’m given.
I like to feel that the experience would be like the artist going back to the studio, to listen to the final CD pressing on
the monitors they recorded with.
I’m getting all the info, with huge detail, imaging, true realism, etc, and I feel that by not adding my own input - that the music goes a lot deeper into my subconcious, and each successive listen gives a different experience each time.
I can invite artists into my home, and fully listen to what they are saying, without interrupting or distorting them with my own sonic agenda.
To a certain point, I can also accept shortcomings in my listening-room’s acoustics, since I sit quite close to my system - near to midfield in fact. My speakers are 6ft apart, and I sit 7ft away.
What I’m getting now from this approach, is that the mind is much more curious to jump in and enjoy/explore other’s audio work - whereas in my old days, I would tweak away, and perhaps miss the point of the whole thing.
In the past I had long periods of not listening to music at all, but now feel more drawn to it - certainly due to this recent approach and acceptance, together with training the ears to listen flat.
Any thoughts welcome.
Cheers.
Solarflares
