Nice to hear it worked out. Not familiar with that other one.
What Meatloaf and Beer Have Taught me about Audiophiles
Recently in life and online I've had some curious observations about human behavior I thought I'd share. To begin with, I have recently discovered that a surprising number of My Fellow Americans do not like meatloaf. As a meatloaf maker and meatloaf cognoscenti I was absolutely astonished at this. Some people who otherwise like burgers and the like hate meatloaf.
If you make meatloaf and love it your immediate reaction to this is "but you haven't tried _my_ meatloaf." That's our natural knee jerk reaction because we just can't imagine. Related to this I have a bartender. We'll call him Calhoun because his name is Calhoun. An otherwise respectable fellow who knows beer and tequila better than most. I would go in to see what the latest rotation of Indian Pale Ales were. About once a month they'd get some new "dessert beer." That is a brew made to taste like a sweet food substance. The least offensive of which were peanut butter and the worst strawberry shortcake beer. Calhoun would proceed to push me to sample these unholy abominations every time he could.
Of course I'd tell him "I don't like flavored beers." Which was partially a lie as a coffee or espresso flavored beer would probably be divine.. but we digress.
Sometimes he was so adamant that the latest beer flavor was the one that would change my mind I'd go ahead and try them. Of course, they were invariably disgusting.
My point to all this is that being on both sides of this argument. It's really hard to accept that our fellow audiophiles don't like something we feel is sublime and we will push our fancies onto them in the hopes of enriching their lives for the better. It's hard for us to respect that someone else can love music and the stereos that play it and yet not have found their happy place the same way we have.
By the way, I use the Betty Crocker meatloaf recipe and add a tablespoon of chipotle powder. Amazing.
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Getting a handle on room acoustics should always be job # 1 for any serious "audiophile" before making any changes, but otherwise, biases in sound preference is perfectly fine. No need to control that any more than biases in people’s favorite soup recipe. It’s a matter of personal preference. Not to say objective sound quality of all preferences is equal. It isn’t. But room acoustics, objective performance of hifi gear integrated and working together in a system, plus (subjective) personal preferences, are the three things that together make the good sound world go round for sure. |
Regarding good sound and music genres, I tend to agree with what @atmasphere has asserted often over the years: a good system sounds good with all kinds of music and genres, acoustic or electronic. Having said that I get it where some lean towards acoustic music and like to season their sound for that. Personally, I find doing that almost always negatively impacts electronic music forms. Whereas if good with electronic music forms, results are also similarly good for acoustic, but not always optimal for all who prefer less attack and edge to the sound. |
Interested to hear the findings. I still have an original Chord Mojo that I use along with the Tempotec. The Mojo cost about 5x or so as much. The two sound way different. Mojo is warmer sounding. Tempotec delivers all the details better and is not warm sounding at all. Probably more neutral. Features do matter and are different of course. |
I use the soup analogy. No two soups taste the same, many are delicious. Yum! Some cost more to whip up than others. People like some and can’t deal with others. It is what it is. Nothing to lose sleep over. I have a $80 DAC that I think sounds great. So shoot me! Punishing others who do not see things your way appears to be a big thing these days. Just read the headlines. So much for freedom of speech much less actions. If I were a tourist, I wouldn’t want to visit here anymore either. Very sad state of affairs. It’s up to each individual to try and make the world a better place. We all better get busy!
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