L-Man wrote:
Teo Audio wrote:
nutella wrote:
The best reply is in the comments section.
"I'm an audiophile.... I'm not allowed within 500 yards of good music"
Restraining order?
Audiophobe?
I had an actual real chance once, to find out if I was an audiophile..or a music fanatic.
The house next door caught on fire, and was seriously ablaze. I found out about that, by someone pounding on the downstairs main door (three apartment three story Victorian house -I was at the top)..and waking me up. I get half way down the windowed staircase and see this blazing fire out the window at point blank range. I did not bother going down to the door, I went back into the apartment.
I looked at the gear, which was a brand new Belles 450, a minty and modded out PS Audio 5.0 preamp, a minty TD125MKII with Linn arm and LOMC, and...NHT speakers at the time. (I kept swapping speakers out)
I looked at the gear..and I looked at the milk cartons of records and all the records in the case and stacked against the walls.
I hesitated for about 2-3 seconds, trying to figure out how to get this done, to get down the back three story fire escape metal ladder that was half a room away.
I went for the records.
So many...I knew that I was likely going to have to throw them off the top of the stairs and hope they survived.
Screw the gear, I can always get more of that.
Thankfully none of that ever happened, they managed to keep the house from going up and limited the damage to the next door house going to ashes. I had most of the records down the stairs and was ready to toss the rest down, if I had to, before this was all resolved as not being a problem.
But I did get a real world "Audiophile OR music fanatic?" test. Which few people actually get. The full on "Real world, gun on the forehead, trigger pulled if you lie to yourself" kinda test.
As... people lie to themselves all day long. Real tests are rare and far between.
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With the advent of digital audio, this previously very real equation --- has been turned on it's head.
Music is now
replaceable. Disposable. I'm not sure this is a good thing.
The ephemeral should remain ephemeral, and the materialistic components and aspects.... should not be in our hearts. Digital audio has screwed us over in places it should not ever be intruding in, when it comes to being human and real, over these past ~100,000 years.
When content is everywhere, the enabler, the doorway..becomes king.
Which is why you see millennials clutching and fondling their cellphones..as one report recently said..touching their 'smartphones' up to 1200 times per day. In this sort of context, it can be clearly seen it is not a smart phone, it is a retardation phone. Which science has found to be true. People who abuse their phones are growing less intelligent, with smaller circles of logic and skills. Get rid of the phone, become human and grow. We are short circuiting our biological functions in this smart phone abuse of ourselves...