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Music with Expressive Power
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Music with Expressive Power

An Audio and Musical Quest
By: Paul James

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For those passionate about quality music, this book explains why high-quality audio reproduction is hard. It highlights the often-ignored role of the listener, enabling you to make informed choices about your equipment and gain richer musical experiences.

People worldwide love to enjoy their preferred lifestyle. Music is a powerful lifestyle choice. It helps people shape and share their experiences. Music evolves, as…
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People worldwide love to enjoy their preferred lifestyle. Music is a powerful lifestyle choice. It helps people shape and share their experiences. Music evolves, as does technology, culture and the music business. This book helps the reader to understand the changes to music and audio reproduction. Enabling them to make informed choices about music and the audio equipment they use. Thereby gaining richer musical experiences.
This book explains why high-quality reproduction of music is hard. It identifies some factors that influence the quality of reproduction such as careful listening. Often discussions about music and audio ignore the role of the listener. Yet a person’s disposition, sensory awareness and attention, affect how they perceive music and what they experience from it.
As well as music students, teachers, and musicologists, the book will appeal to those with a passion for quality music and the quality reproduction of music.

Paul James is an independent researcher, and holds an MA in Philosophy from Deakin University, Australia, and a PhD in Philosophy from the University of New England, Australia. His interests include music, hi-fi, wellness, wisdom and sports cars. In collaboration with Falls Audio, he has conducted numerous experiments into achieving hi fidelity reproduction of music at the highest level. He uses a number of bespoke audio designs in his own system, including a 205d-based line stage and an LCR phono stage.

Hardback

  • ISBN: 1-0364-1283-0
  • ISBN13: 978-1-0364-1283-8
  • Date of Publication: 2024-10-03

Paperback

  • ISBN: 1-0364-5264-6
  • ISBN13: 978-1-0364-5264-3
  • Date of Publication: 2025-06-30

Ebook

  • ISBN: 1-0364-1284-9
  • ISBN13: 978-1-0364-1284-5
  • Date of Publication: 2025-06-30
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  • BIC: AVX, KNTF, UYU
  • THEMA: AVX, KNTF, UYU
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  • "For the listener who values nuance, tone, and the full emotive arc of a performance, this book affirms our instincts – and challenges us to go deeper."
    - Dr Richard Varey, Freelance Writer, New Zealand
  • "My appetite for listening has been whetted. I’m about to play another album."
    - Dr Richard Varey, Freelance Writer, New Zealand

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