Audiophiles and their music preferences!

[Sir Terrence]

Originally Posted by prerich

Gopsel (live prefered - all genures - jazz,traditional, urban, rap), Jazz (Studio and live), and classical - that's what I listen to. I also direct choirs, compose, and mix. I don't consider myself an audiophile but I like good sound and well recorded music - even a "mistake" can add character to recording. Very interesting listening.

This is a man after my own heart. Are you my twin brother? I do consider myself an audiophile, and have worked for the last 15 years to raise the production values(recording techniques) of my three favorite genres of music, classical, jazz, and gospel. Since I write, play, produce and engineer, I want my music to sound as good as it can. Jazz and classical have always had high production values, but gospel recording(live) were often of very poor quality. I have worked with five of the largest gospel labels to teach their technical staffs how to accurately capture the magic of a live gospel concert so I can enjoy them on my system.

Personally I like great music recorded well. I am about to stir up some dust here. I believe that two channel recordings no matter how good, are always a bad distortion of a live event. It is spatially impossible to capture a live event with just two channels, so I have never believed that it is the best way to listen to music regardless of the price of the system. We hear binaurally, so surround is really the only way to capture and playback an event accurately. While most audiophiles revere vinyl, I celebrated the day when SACD and DVD-A arrived.