The beauty of the good feeling of listening to music has been changed to a sterilized one size fits all in how we listen to music. Think of a piece of art where this is only one color, no expression, no ambiance, lack of taste, lack of soul. With that being, our ears seem to have accepted what is offered as our only choice when we still have sound options. Or ears have been redirected into hearing music through computer speakers, earbuds or listening to music on cellphone speaker, sound bars, and speakers housed in plastic housings. Often the sound is only slightly better than a 1960’s transistor radio held an ear, only louder. The listening quality is simply unpleasant, and for many of us with music in our bones, it’s like scratching a blackboard, and it may feel as if options are few.
Now that older music is out selling new music. People are wanting to hear, and not look at their music, as many of the current artists offer entertainment, and very little quality music. People are wanting to hear real instrumentation and honest recording of vocals, and less auto tune. It’s time to rethink how we are hearing music.
How to: Visit a friend who has a great stereo set-up. There are quality sound stores that specialize in what you are missing. Time to do some research.
If you place yourself between two speakers, such as in your car, you’ll hear lead vocals mostly in the middle or slight left or right in the speakers. Then you might hear on the left or right background vocals in one speaker and hear some other harmonies in the other speaker. In full stereo spectrum - the drum cymbals sounds go back and forth between the left and right speakers, and maybe the guitar solo starts on one speaker and then vibrate/tremolo between the two speakers. It all enhances the sound. From small groups all the way to choirs, baritones can be placed in the middle of the stereo and the sopranos in the left speaker and the altos in the right. When you hear it all in stereo you’ll feel the spirit of the music come alive.
Certain music should be heard in quality stereo; these are some great stereo Icons, Phyllis Hyman and Chaka, Sade, Marvin Gaye and Eric Benét, Stevie Wonder with his Talking Book album, and others often sung their lead in the middle of a stereo recording and then with their own harmonies they’ll place some in the left, and some in the right speaker. They directed their instrumentalists to separate their instruments into stereo as an art form. Music of this unique sound is lost on cheaper plug and play plastic music systems that many if not most have forced all vocals and instruments all in the middle and you lose the true essence of how the music was recorded. Hear these stereo heroes in how they record their records, Motown recordings, Aretha Franklin, Ledisi, Adele, Lalah Hathaway, Mint Condition, Luther Vandross, Stevie Wonder, Tupac, Curtis Mayfield, Angie Stone, Lenny
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