Why audiophiles are different (explained with color)
'Why the ancient greeks could not see blue' is very bold and very likely false statement. https://www.greecetravel.com/archaeology/mitsopoulou/blue.html https://palombacoralli.it/en/turquoise-the-stone-of-a-thousand-myths/ |
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/2f/b7/cd/2fb7cdb4d13d43653aa4f828990d323e.jpg Τhe wounded saffron gatherer lady. Fresco from Akrotiri prehistoric settlement-17th c.BC. Santorini island Cyclades, Greece https://c8.alamy.com/comp/P7JYH5/minoan-fresco-akrotiri-island-of-thera-santorini-house-of-ladies-la... https://www.dailyartmagazine.com/wall-paintings-of-thera/ |
Do not want to spoil the party, but based on my experience with 'audiophiles' (that I know or have met) I would not suggest that they appreciate music more than others. Than again, I would not say that dissecting the reproduced sounds of hi fi systems ad nauseum have necessarily any conection with love for music at all or that hi fi has any meaning if majority of your music collection is not unamlified music... |
.....’We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. The martyrs go hand in hand into the arena; they are crucified alone. Embraced, the lovers desperately try to fuse their insulated ecstasies into a single self-transcendence; in vain. By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude. Sensations, feelings, insights, fancies - all these are private and, except through symbols and at second hand, incommunicable. We can pool information about experiences, but never the experiences themselves. From family to nation, every human group is a society of island universes. Most island universes are sufficiently like one another to Permit of inferential understanding or even of mutual empathy or "feeling into." Thus, remembering our own bereavements and humiliations, we can condole with others in analogous circumstances, can put ourselves (always, of course, in a slightly Pickwickian sense) in their places. But in certain cases communication between universes is incomplete or even nonexistent. The mind is its own place, and the Places inhabited by the insane and the exceptionally gifted are so different from the places where ordinary men and women live, that there is little or no common ground of memory to serve as a basis for understanding or fellow feeling. Words are uttered, but fail to enlighten. The things and events to which the symbols refer belong to mutually exclusive realms of experience. To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves.’.....A.H. Learning about the music and the way how it is created or about its internal structure (from musicians point of view) I find fascinating. Putting objective on describing reproduced sounds and even calling it 'discipline' is slightly pretentious, to say at least...of course, imho...... |
