Erik,
Making babies isn't going to help--at least, not if you mean the literal kind. How many of us have children who are also audiophiles?
Still, I've found this a really interesting thread, despite some of the nay-sayers, so thanks. Perhaps it illustrates a potentially disconcerting thing: that we (we humans, not just we audiophiles) tend to enthuse about what reaches or touches us personally, not because it's "better," or even "valuable" in any objective sense, but just because we feel it.
IMHO, this feature of human experience explains why dreams are so powerfully moving to the person who has them, and so boring to anyone who has to listen to an account of them. Dreams "mean" nothing at all, in the vast majority of cases. They seem important only because they're so vividly experienced by the mind of the dreamer. When you wake from a dream, the quickly fading memory is of an "experience" every bit as vivid as it would be had you really experienced the events you dreamed, and this seems slightly miraculous, in light of the fact, inescapable upon waking, that none of it actually happened. A fantasy is nothing like a dream, really, except in its unreality. If we could "day dream" with as much vividness as we sleep-dream, we'd never leave the house.
Well, what each of us experiences with our own audio equipment, and our own favorite music, is finally personal, subjective--and thus, of absolute importance to us, but fundamentally incommunicable to anyone else. And yet, if we like people, we want to share the delight. It very rarely succeeds.
Making babies isn't going to help--at least, not if you mean the literal kind. How many of us have children who are also audiophiles?
Still, I've found this a really interesting thread, despite some of the nay-sayers, so thanks. Perhaps it illustrates a potentially disconcerting thing: that we (we humans, not just we audiophiles) tend to enthuse about what reaches or touches us personally, not because it's "better," or even "valuable" in any objective sense, but just because we feel it.
IMHO, this feature of human experience explains why dreams are so powerfully moving to the person who has them, and so boring to anyone who has to listen to an account of them. Dreams "mean" nothing at all, in the vast majority of cases. They seem important only because they're so vividly experienced by the mind of the dreamer. When you wake from a dream, the quickly fading memory is of an "experience" every bit as vivid as it would be had you really experienced the events you dreamed, and this seems slightly miraculous, in light of the fact, inescapable upon waking, that none of it actually happened. A fantasy is nothing like a dream, really, except in its unreality. If we could "day dream" with as much vividness as we sleep-dream, we'd never leave the house.
Well, what each of us experiences with our own audio equipment, and our own favorite music, is finally personal, subjective--and thus, of absolute importance to us, but fundamentally incommunicable to anyone else. And yet, if we like people, we want to share the delight. It very rarely succeeds.