Audiophile 101 – Music Preferences

Audiophiles seem to be divided into two major camps:

1. Those that like to play Jazz (and light pop, new age, and percussion music like drums)

2. Those that like to play Classical and Opera music.

Those that fall into camp 1, besides appreciating the music as just great music, also appreciate the fact that it sounds really good on their system. It sounds better because it is often recorded better and it is easier for the stereo system to reproduce the music well.

Those that fall into camp 2, besides also appreciating the music as just great music, apprecatiate the difficulty of reproducing this music – it is a challenge for ANY system to make sound really good. From the other directions, a) if you love classical music you will almost certainly need some kind of good equipment to really hear it sound good and b) if you have a great system you eventually try classical music and say to yourself, ‘Hey! that ain’t half bad!’ Especially opera.