A comparison between JI and ET becomes a comparison between apples and oranges, two different things. Yes, they both represent music, but from two very different musical perspectives, and that difference is very difficult to explain.sammy wrote:...Tuulen: if you look at what I was actually asking, you might notice I was not after a theoretical explanation, or validation of any theory, but an opinion based on what you hear... but don't worry I will give up now. Forget it...
The Baroque is the last major Western musical era to use JI, although choral singing and folk music often continue to use JI, too. Otherwise, ET has dominated Western music for well more than two hundred years, and so finding examples of JI to listen to is far less common these days, except on the Internet!
JI is really, really, really easy to understand, the most natural of music. In fact, it is so easy to understand that by the time you come to like JI and then go to the "properly" tuned piano test you will ask yourself, "What is wrong with this piano?" "Why does it sound wrong?"
Yet, it is the "proper" tuning of the piano which allows so much modern music to happen. Without "proper" piano tuning the Classical era could not have existed, and no orchestral music since then could have existed, either.
So, each of those two systems of tuning have their place.