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Post by jandl100 on Oct 14, 2015 7:56:10 GMT
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Post by John on Oct 14, 2015 8:52:07 GMT
A great read
Interesting reading about some of the traps of getting decent hifi e.g purchasing music to show off your system rather than music you actually enjoy I ty and avoid that one. I certainly been to quite a few concerts where I been disappointed with the sound too.
I am also careful who I talk to about my system I know for most people it seems a bit weird People at work know I that got a decent system but I never really chat to them about it. Even my best friend who loves hearing the system I rarely talk about it
Thanks for sharing Jerry
It certainly is a very male based passion
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Post by alaska on Oct 14, 2015 9:40:56 GMT
It certainly is a very male based passion I don't know what you mean...I must have seen at least 4 people at Whittlebury this year without beards!! |
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Post by MartinT on Oct 14, 2015 9:53:11 GMT
Isn't any specialist pursuit equally as mad to outsiders? Have you seen the things that car modders get up to? Or the cost of carbon fibre fishing rods? For all the amazement at the looks and the cost, the most relevant sentence in that article is...
...and that's what it's all about.
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Post by jandl100 on Oct 14, 2015 10:11:47 GMT
Yes, I think it is a very fair and objective article, covering pretty much the full spectrum of symptoms of the audiophile nervosa disease as seen by a baffled but surprised-to-be-sympathetic outside observer. I'm sure that everyone here can recognise themselves in some part or other of that article ... probably quite a lot of it!  |
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Post by Eduardo Wobblechops on Oct 14, 2015 11:46:40 GMT
It certainly is a very male based passion I don't know what you mean...I must have seen at least 4 people at Whittlebury this year without beards!! I wasn't one of them.. :-) |
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Post by MikeMusic on Oct 14, 2015 12:32:13 GMT
Thanks for that. Good article by a sensible guy All about the music for me. After many upgrades some favourite albums now disappoint with their lack of substance where other forms of music "I don't like" sound good and well worth listening to. I have another theory. Many that don't hear the difference don't care. There are plenty that don't connect to the quality, even if they listen all day long. I've played my system a few times to some of the great unwashed and to a man and woman they were impressed with the sound. Would they look at the same sort of set up ? No. Don't care enough and/or don't have the room and other reasons. I know of a friend of a friend who spent about £10,000 on bike. Fair enough if he wants to. I spent just over £1000 and I love mine. Some balk at more than £100 |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 14, 2015 15:14:00 GMT
Ive always said Audio puddings are more interested in Hi-Fi than music, music is just something they play to make the H-Fi reproduce the goods. Take this place for example, look at the General music section, virtually no indepth music chat. 'Just what are you playing now' that's only interesting for, yes you guessed it the ones that know nothing about music, that's precisely why there's no music chat  An amazing example is one of my old school mates dad, who owned this mega expensive system, no word of a lie he owned around 12 LP's of the sort you can guess that, so he said, were brilliantly recorded & always used by him as test records.  what a barm pot eh! |
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Post by John on Oct 14, 2015 18:39:28 GMT
Interesting points Andre
I love music chat. Its easier doing this on a music forum as you can find people who share a similar taste. A few members often chat quite in depth about music, the classical section has some good music chats from Jules, Jerry, Martin and Slinger. Chris and myself have talked about Blues and Jazz In the past I written threads on world music, and guitar based music too.
There are always going to be extremes around HIFI and music that is just human nature
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Post by Deleted on Oct 14, 2015 19:04:10 GMT
The only difference is the majority of indepth Hi-Fi discusion is utter twaddle.. Any saine person should surely realise that  |
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Post by jandl100 on Oct 15, 2015 6:57:46 GMT
Ah, but that's the point, we aren't talking about completely sane people, are we?   |
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Post by ChrisB on Oct 15, 2015 7:34:01 GMT
It's all relative though isn't it.
Ten minutes on the web and you soon see that there are people a lot more weird than us!!
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Post by MartinT on Oct 15, 2015 11:59:56 GMT
Indeed, just read ANY comments in YouTube about music videos and the density of knob-heads will make you lose the will to live in short order. I don't agree with your point, Andr'e. I think our music section shows that we are, for the most part, music fans first. We've all said time and time again that this pursuit is a lonely one and we have few friends who are interested in hi-fi. Who are we showing off our systems to, then? In depth discussions come with Album Choice and the best way for you to raise the game is to join in! |
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Post by Barrington on Oct 23, 2015 12:04:26 GMT
I had to laugh at this - "the best upgrade you can buy for your equipment is a couple of bottles of wine” , although I don't agree , a glass a wine or two makes you enjoy the music more I don't think it makes it sound better. But an excellent article .
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what a barm pot eh!
