Occurred to me today that I have dropped stuff that I cannot just be bothered by anymore, and wondering what some of you out there have let go of as well
Me (lean mostly into analog)
- Lifting a tonearm lever to cue a platter - no more - years off my life
- Carbon brushes, cart cleans with every spin or two - years off my life
- Ugly racks that look like ones I had in 10th grade, though cost 20x more - out
- Listening at low volume levels to gauge audiophile purity
- A/B'ing streaming platforms
Finale - $50 audiophile pressings "remastered from the original master tapes" that sound like sanitized cheese spread - magic gone, warped, drop-outed, bubbled, and gain-whacked (there are exceptions for sure)
Hard wired RCA cables from tonearms that will not reach inputs
Dismissing the golden era of CD's, where some of these box sets and jackets are intricate works of art, and WILL be in museum exhibits at MOMA one day (if they have not already) - e.g. Bowie cards in Station to Station box set, TH box where each jacket includes an original work of art, Goodbye Babylon engraved (by hand) and singed block type on a large wooden slide box, Seven Steps to Heaven tissue tracing illustrations, and on and on and on.
LP's the same for decades as we know, and have been in countless global high profile art exhibitions around the world. Robert Frank's many images on Exile on Main Street at the Frank exhibit at MOMA last year case in point.
If some sound like crap, well, we are hearing the same master on (pick your platform). YMMV.
You can find some very creative and viable rap but it takes some time and I cant be bothered.
Every generation looks back and says the same things about past music. Elvis, the hippie stuff, punk, rap, metal, etc. Worst thing to come along, other than MTV, is the ease at which you can manipulate using digital recording.
Give me the Sex Pistols over Boston (or any arena rock band from this era) any day of the week. Oh and how about all that pukey/puffy prog. stuff from the 70s?
Rap. IMHO it is music… just not mine. The Super Bowl music should appeal to the masses, not something so controversial as Rap. I do enjoy Rap’s beat. Something like Raye. A beautiful voice both singing and talking, with a Rap like beat.
My daughter tells me I ought to consider Rap to be poetry without the bongo drums…🤔
@thecarpathian - Yes, my comments about "long hair, all sounds the same, can't even play their instruments," etc reflect what I heard as a kid in the early 70's and well beyond, from parents and other "old folks & friends" protesting that which they didn't like and/or understand. I am sure my folks heard the same from others when they were young, and so on. It's the same vibe as many comments about the SB HT performance.....
No, you interpreted it correctly. I don't think rappers are in any way, shape or form musicians. They're entertainers, not my cup of tea but entertainers none the less.
It was your other comments about long hair, needs a bath, etc. that harken back to what the older generation might have said back in the 60's and early 70's about rock bands and hippies that I don't see being applicable today. Anyway, I don't want to screw up another fun thread, so I'll end by saying I respect your personal view of that genre. Plenty of room for everyone.
Silly old people for liking their music created by actual musicians..."
This seemed to be an insinuation that the half time performer was "not a musician." If my interpretation was accurate, then I think my comment in the previous post is clear. If I am incorrect, my bad; sorry....
"Typical old people...."cannot understand the words.....their hair is too long.....they need a bath.....it's too loud....they can't even play their instruments.....it's just screaming...that's not real music....it's too fast...blah...blah...blah. Thanks for embodying my point...."
What decade do you think this is and how in the world did what I say embody your point?
Yes, definitely silly (among other things), for not considering them "actual musicians." Typical old people...."cannot understand the words.....their hair is too long.....they need a bath.....it's too loud....they can't even play their instruments.....it's just screaming...that's not real music....it's too fast...blah...blah...blah. Thanks for embodying my point....
Cannot be bothered with the never ending cycle of old people saying to young people "that's not even real music / I can't understand any of the words!!"
I cannnot be bothered with endless discussions on particular cable superiority regardless of the kind of cable it is.
* - listening to modern rock and roll and whatever millennials call music today...
* - No Effin rap please, or hip hop, or Nine Inch Nails. No please. Music needs to coddle me and uplift me, help me relax, soothe my tortured soul, and make me feel human again. Classical, blues, some older rock and even folk music ( I know you guys hate that ). Sometimes its like drinking wine at a beer party or drinking beer at a wine party. But sometimes I just dont want what everyone else is having. If all I had to listen to was so called modern music, I would just give up and not listen to anything. I guess that makes me officially an old fart. I don't care, it is what it is.
Y'all are having too much fun...(summoning the dream police) *beep*chatterchatter*Boop/Beep*
Yeah, I'll hold....(azhole)....*mute*
Y'all stay still....
All DACs' do sound the same....*dangles bait before meat grinder*
*eyes soapbox* noo....
HERE...we find respite from all that noise 'out there' ...hopefully, not always...it's difficult to disconnect reality v. one's desire for simplicity and need of 'pause for one's cause', whatever that may be.
Ours is That Sound That We Seek.
Good luck on getting There.
Let me recount my list of things no longer interested or bothered with:
1. Those who insist their 1000 dollar cables sound better than my normally priced ones. I will never find out if they do because I am not foolish enough to squander my hard earned money into anything that makes such outlandish claims.
2. those who make the assertion that raising the cables off the floor makes a difference...I call that total BS and I dont care who likes my opinion. :)
3. Anyone who insists that class AB is better sounding than a well executed class D. Sorry folks the measurements and listening tests say othrwis.
I can't be bothered reading this post anymore.... Oh wait, damn I just read the whole thing.
EDIT: I can't be bothered with weather or not I contradict myself. I'll just open my mouth. Maybe my contradictions will start a meaningful conversation.
Can't be bothered with knowing what to do with my defunct 500+ CD collection. Removing them and having empty shelves with nothing to put on them. All that money, wasted!!
Perhaps, had I known streaming was only 35 years away I wouldn't have bothered with CD .... lol
I can't be bothered with silly things like listening to music in any way/format. I just want to read/talk about all the marvelous equipment to achieve Nirvana for music listening; specially if the equipment is over $100,000.
Should I add listening to blowhards claiming perfected hearing after 40 odd years in an opera house and or types boasting of disposable cash. Of course their speakers to tweaks are the prettiest and best that with which they’ll push onto anybody that’ll listen. This was fun.. cheers !
At this stage in my life I do not allow anything to bother me. I focus on what I can control, which is self. That which is beyond my control is not relevant.
LOL! I cannot be bothered with my vinyl anymore either. First, I don't think that on my system, and without a mega $10K plus turntable, phone preamp, cartridge, etc., vinyl has any thing on digital. Plus, my 800+ albums from the 70's, although I used a DiscWasher and a ZeroStat religiously, and had a Thorens TT, still have plenty of surface noise and clicks and pops that I can't imagine would sound any better on a megabucks rig. Then there is the constant needle drop, the getting up from my listening chair to change albums or flip sides, etc. With all my albums digitized, with streaming and with Roon, with music curated by Roon after the album is over, I CAN'T BE BOTHERED!
Anything out in the world that may rob me of the joy I find in music ... there is a time and place to head down the spiral of despair, whatever the cause, however, not when I am locked into a groove - that is my sacred space - and that will not be forfeited - full stop.
Cannot be bothered by no tolerance for pops here and there on an original vinyl pressing of Mingus' "The Clown" that sounds infinitely better than any $50 reissue ,,, and I just listened to both.
powercords,interconnects and speaker cables that are stiff/heavy enough to move equipment or have broken inputs or iec’s
exotic footers and platforms that make marginal difference and are ridiculously expensive.
exotic contact enhancers that get on everything
magical fuses and all the audio jewelry that is as costly as new components
I’m guilty of having fallen trap to all of the above for many tens of thousands of dollars.
Now just want to plug it in and enjoy the music.
If the US splits in the near future, it will probably be based on right wing or left wing ideology...not religion, race or ethnicity.
The US is not some one of a kind cultural melting pot. Melting pots have existed in different parts of the world for thousands of years (India, Africa, etc).
@deep_333 I agree. It’s hard to get diverse populations to get along much less see eye to eye. But that’s pretty much what this country is about and supposedly makes it great and a place diverse peoples want to live in...all that melting pot stuff. Maybe we are doomed to fail in the end, or maybe we truly are "great" and make it so. Nothing lasts forever. THat much is for sure.
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