Cars. Porsches, BMWs, and my latest - an Audi S5 with a speedometer that goes
to 260 mph.
Does your "esoteric" taste in audio also exist in other "things" you own/consume?
This is not ment to be a "snob appeal" thought or thought process....but just a wonderment about others and their "other" consumer consumptions.
My best friends and I share the "high-end" audio interest/hobby/investments but in that same vein, we all have traveled "the road not taken" with cars, homes, foods, vacations, art...etc. Again, not to be mean, but none of my human experience has been that the humans I have had interactions with were "selectively intelligent". Your esperience may have varied from this....but my experience is that most intelligent people I have known were globally intelligent and most of the simple minded people I have been around are globally simple minded...Perhaps the latter explains the "thing" with politicians?
The Road Not Taken
Launch Audio in a New Window
BY ROBERT FROST
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
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@jrosemd - Impressive... My Fiat 500 speedo only goes to 160. @bdp24 - Great PSA! I've lost a fair share of acquaintances to it over the years. Some better than others, but hated to see any of them go regardless. @immatthewj - Thanks for the laugh |
YES. 1. Amateur astronomy. Purist telescopes with frequent upgrades & tweaks for improved performance. Incidentally, a lot of apochromatic telescope purists are also audiophiles. The philosophies are highly congruous. 2. I have a wife that likes to upgrade herself with a lot of (tasteful) plastic surgery... and I end up losing a lot of money on that too but absolutely love it-- so worth it! 3. I like high-end cars made for comfort and elegance, especially those made in the UK. 4. I am fascinated by high-end anything! Its so wonderful to see the state of the art in just about any field! 5. I enjoy science, and especially enjoy the nonsensical, as-of-yet inexplicable forefront of new learning. 6. Purist organic and live soil grown foods. Food tastes better when it is as nature intended it! Factory processing is not as good! A lot of audiophile similarities there too.
Great topic! I've enjoyed reading other audiophile's answers! |
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