What Meatloaf and Beer Have Taught me about Audiophiles

@erik_squires 👏✨👍😎

Obviously you hit a common nerve that didn't hurt.... Quite the contrary..

Genius

Perfect timing to start the weekend with, besides giving everyone to go off the rails if only for the while.  And the nerve being we're all the same in having more than one preference and expectations as to where 'Absolute Bliss' grinds down to 'That that we take the hose to dissolve It'.
And how big that span can be in us on just audio, beer, food....

A tiny slice of human pie chart.  The bulk of us have never met in person, but we've this vague image of each other that very likely has zilch in real time.

Anyway, Bravo! ...keep 'm coming. ;)

What conditions my systems recognize:

- AVL was a recent beer capital and it's only growing like the fungus in The Last Of Us....The latest is dedicating the South Slope of our downtown to the breweries.  I've no clue if they're ruining what are good to begin with adulterants of nearly anything you'd love or puke from.  I'm one to agree with a party participant back in Houston that "...light beer is a crime against humanity!"  Well put.

- I like black licorice....had some ice cream of that back in Oakland that was from an creamer that did custom short runs for the local swank restaurateurs...
Mary's would always run a 5 gal. test that ended up in the storefront.  Once was treated to a malt that ran the max butterfat.
I gained a pound, I swear.
Peter was a wiry guy who always was dressed in lederhosen....YES, always.
I was in the shop when a couple w/2 kids came in and asked for Rocky Road.
The momentary silence was electric.
Peter briskly told them that " we don't trifle with rocky road, but I'm sure the Dreyer's down and across the street will please you.  Good Day."
( The way they left the store was as if they were told to go to hell in a very firm delivery of condemnation without malice. )  

- Spouse Evelyn makes a beef/turkey/pork meatloaf that's better than my mothers'.
Mom was a NB farm girl from a brood of 12...granddad's organ apparently didn't have any stops...worked minor miracles in the dinky ass kitchen I grew up in.
Made peanut butter cookies with bacon grease (Yes...chunk less, but...) that I could trade at parochial school for nearly anything a child could...
Addictive....took awhile to retune to what a 'normal' PB cookie is...

Ev's is killer.
Recipe only if you're serious, PM.
 

Of course you are...   Have an excellent weekend, J

As one who likes to add context and clarity to complex situations, I'd want to make a simple distinction between Meatloaf, the performer, and meatloaf, the meal.  I just happen to like both, in this case.

I am also a Bad Company fan.  But, certainly not a fan of bad company in my, or any other, home.

My best goodbye, while heading out the door, I've ever heard is... "Hey, don't let your meat loaf". I don't know why that seems soooo darn funny, but it is.

@ghdprentice 

Audiophiles are crazy fanatics trying to reproduce music that sounds like the real thing, as accurately and nuanced as possible into the home. Most folks and certainly many on this forum are not audiophiles.

If you choose a particular seat in a particular venue, listen to a particular orchestra, and use it as the primary reference/baseline for your home system, that I can grasp (at least conceptually).

But to speak of "live music" as if it’s one thing, instead of countless performances by countless artists in different genres in countless venues with what can be wildly differing sonics, yes-- that seems crazy. One might as well say one is trying to reproduce restaurant food at home. 

Erik_Squires.  Excellent writing skills.  Seriously.  Nice to read an author who sets up a subject and executes the take.

ps. Here at Chez Lang’s, meatloaf is a big pleaser.