How are we REALLY experiencing music?? Listening to 100K Hifi System!

This is a special video, as I travelled to Lithuania to visit Muzikos Magijos Salonas https://www.muz.lt/, to experience what it is like to truly embrace music. Artases Gazarian was kind enough to sit down for a conversation with me, where we talk about how we perceive music, what truly matters in recording and reproduction of music and why today's compressed audio formats are completely incapable of conveying the expression of the artists, if there was any expression to begin with.

We discuss acoustics, overtones, HIFI systems vs Studio sound systems, and why our ears are not necessarily the most important parts of our bodies to truly embrace music.

00:00 Welcome to Vilnius
00:30 What is the mission of the Salon Of The Magic Of Music?
01:04 Standing in History, The walls are from the 16th Century!
01:30 6 different High End Systems to test
02:00 It is about matching the right components
02:55 Saving on Cables is Wasting Money
03:28 Acoustics in a Cultural Heritage Building
04:50 Price Alone DOESN'T make good sound
05:40 People don't like listening to advice
06:20 People stopped listening to music, hearing is NOT listening!
07:05 CD vs. LP vs. MP3 vs Streaming
07:55 MP3 is only good for background music, not true enjoyment
08:30 Primitive music is trendy because MP3
08:54 Getting back to Records
11:23 Listening to records is a different experience
11:30 People could afford good systems
11:53 What is the challenge of HIFI?
13:58 The Critical Rupture in 1981
15:13 The Degradation of Equipment
15:34 We are listening with ears like we are reading with glasses
16:53 Music without Overtones is emotionless
17:30 Wait, 80kHz Diamond Tweeter???
18:05 The true extent of harmonics
19:30 You can be deaf and still make emotional music
20:18 The harmonic structure reveals the fundamental
21:36 The Phantom Lows
22:20 Emotional Content is in the Timbre
23:10 What is Timbre?
23:44 Melody, Macro Dynamics and MP3
24:40 Compression removes emotional content
25:20 So what can reproduce emotion?
25:45 The key to emotion
26:27 The best system is the one that can convey emotion
27:22 If you don't enjoy the music, it's bullsh*t
27:42 Outro

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