Hey Dan,  there's already a thread for posting what you're listening to.  It's call "What's Spinning" and currently has 6948 posts.  Come on over and join the party.  Mark.

https://www.decware.com/cgi-bin/yabb22/YaBB.pl?num=1236824329/6948#6948

I can see the distinction. Perhaps the thread could be renamed "What music moves you?" or "What in music moves you?"

I've been into music since before I can remember. My parents were into music, and I had grandparents who played music for me on strings and things. The hobby for me grew from a need to try to get closer to the music when I quit playing music with others when I got married.

The last two years I've been listening to a lot more classical music because I spend more time at my parents' house than anywhere else, and Dad loves classical music. I've come to really appreciate and be moved by classical music as never before, and it has made a lot of pop and rock music seem like candy to me as compared to the classical which seems like a real meal. And cello playing in particular has really moved me. The sound of a cello, properly reproduced (and of course live) really reaches me and plays with my emotion.

I find much of the time my emotional connection or impact is related to how the music was connected to my life when I first heard it.  God help me if it had to do with a broken heart!  I still love some pretty silly stuff since I would listen to it with my daughter when she was very young.

Archie...life will always influence our emotion.  Many times, music excites emotions in my life...past and present.  But music almost always brings out emotions I have never felt before.  Favorite songs, old songs, NEW SONGS, elicit an emotion in me that I sometimes can't explain.  it's the reason I listen.

Acetone...I agree that LP's have that special quality to them that draws emotion.  But I fell ALL MUSIC can and does draw emotion in us all...albeit some forms more that others.

I guess the best way I can explain how I feel is an aviator I use at work.  It's an old time gramophone record player with the caption "I LOVE MUSIC".

Dan

Auguie (from the top post). I have Whitney's debut album on vinyl and her 2nd. Sometimes I just grab it/them, put it on an crank her up!

My huge Polk SDA SRS 1.2's are to be appreciated with Vinyl (especially using the SDA: Stereo Dimensional Array function)...even if I'm running that System in Solid State.

Clive Davis is the cooool man. 

Music moves me so deeply, I actually involuntarily hum a lot...kinda of a internal vocal scat. When my kids were little they would get such a kick out of this...... .

Hey Dan, the SDA function is fun to listen with Solid State. I enjoy my Polk SDA SRS 1.2's for 2 channel with my HSU MBM for: HT/DVD/Blu-ray, Serius Sat. radio via Dish Network, TV/DVR and of course, my Vinyl Rig. Using the TV Speaker's makes me want to puke.  ;D

My Listening Room is all Decware 2 channel! NO SDA needed with my Vintage Polk SDA 1's...(run in Stereo only).

I hear you, I love all different kinds of music too which keeps me entrenched in this hobby. Now, I'm going to play around with some A to D recording an D to D with the new ZDSD. W/Plus, direct playback from Transport through Steve's Output Stage an my Upsampled/Recordings.