I love it when it's "dirty"

We were taught to sing clearly in music lessons. We were trained to play cleanly at piano classes. As a result, when we listen to music, we are accustomed to aiming for pure sound.

But when I hear "perfect purity," I imagine something clean and shining, but for some reason artificial, lifeless, and unreal.

There is no life in a perfectly clean house. There is no soul in the perfectly pure sound of music – the soul of the musician, the soul of the instrument(s).

Why? - you will be surprised...

Because naturally, sound is not monotonous, and it does not exist in a vacuum. Naturally, we perceive the sounds of music not separately, but in a complex with all other sounds around.

First, the sound of a good musical instrument is complex and multi-colored itself. Consider how diverse the sounds produced by a guitar are - how different the strings sound depending on the method of sound extraction; how the deck amplifies the sound and gives it the appropriate timbre; how we keep silent and not clapping, listening to the long and such a wonderful aftertone of the guitarist's last note...

Second, when a jazz band, for example, performs, the sound of the instruments intertwines and creates a distinct live musical picture. That is why, among audiophiles, a two-microphone recording, when a music peace is performed by a whole band, is still preferred as opposed to a mixed recording, in which each instrument is recorded separately and then "artificially" blended.

Third, musicians do not perform in a vacuum, thus the volume and echo of the venue are an important aspect of the music's sound. I recently learned that the best recordings of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Fritz Rainer, were done in a church. Only then did I realize why they fascinate me so much!

This multitude of microsounds gives us a sense of the true richness and realism of music's sound. A "perfectly clean" sound, on the other hand, is something that is so empty, unnatural, and cleaned of everything that someone believed was "superfluous."

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Unfortunately, our ears are already accustomed to that cleaned-up primitive sound, so some people fall in love with the truly rich realistic sound right away, while others initially reject it.

I know from personal experience that the sound of music on the Hi-End system may be irritating:). Our brain quickly tires after receiving an extremely high amount of musical information at once and says "enough."

But, if we make an effort and listen to music in the highest possible quality for a while, we will never be able to return to that "clean" sound.

Alternatively, by gradually increasing the quality of the audio system, we will find new and exciting aspects of Music at each succeeding stage.

Tested on my own experience :)