Why so many angry audiophiles?


Just wondering. Music is supposed to soothe the soul. If you are in reasonably good health for your age, have a good system and good music to play on it you have it pretty good it seems to me. These are blessings! Be thankful for what you got?

Just a thought.  That's how I see it.
mapman

Showing 8 responses by asvjerry

  as a generality, i don’t think that audiophiles are an angry bunch
"It was the best of times,  and the worse of times...

"History repeats itself..."

"And the problem with men....is that they forget."

And I agree with jjss49's observation; we're pretty much a normal bunch.  
Anything that exhibits a high level of emotional involvement is bound to engender an elevated degree of conflict over choices made to enjoy such....

Vivaldi vs. Van Halen, and how to listen with what where when and why.  So much like sport fans, overlaid with more than just whose jersey one shoulders.... *S*
At least we don't sit in stadiums smeared with team colors wagging foam hands....or do we?

Tubes, or tragedy.  Solid States of sibilance. The A, A/B, D factions struggle over the possession of Truth and Beauty.

"VTA, VTA, all is involved in VTA!"....one can almost hear the chant of the section, while the digital division debates a retort...

Pretty damn funny, if one steps to one side of the crowds... ;)
All this, for bliss....truly transient, totally engrossing edification.

What a wonderful motley mess we is. (Hope your team 'wins'....*G*)

Enjoy your music by whatever means is meaningful to you.
'Nuff said....
Catch & release.
Fillet fish.
Make fish soup.

(Flounder or halibut makes for a default to #1.....)

Don't understand the 'anger'....I thought 'enjoyment' and 'exchange' was the concepts to be pursued.  *sigh*  Wrong yet again...

As one who 'goes against the grain' in general in pursuit or conduct, that I may have been silenced by some is Your call, Your option.

In a era where some have decided that trampling and ransacking a public building, threatening those who've been elected to (perhaps) be our advocates there...I find deplorable at minimum.

Unfortunately...expected.

Trying times, indeed.  Any public venue and adventure has drifted into 'us vs. them', easily devolving into teethgritting shouting matches and the clenched fist.

All in all....send me the tab for a round.  I'll stay home, and play something appropo...and drink alone.  Cheers...:(

Enjoy your bitters....
+1, AZbob.....I chalk the change in attitudes in the thread to the inhabitants dredging up their responses to Covid, the changes in the government, the hostility of the Capitol mob, the fears of where the nation is heading in response to all of the previous....

The earth seems to be moving beneath our feet and we don’t know where to tread and how to keep a balance in our lives.

The glass half-full or half-empty doesn’t seem to matter if the glass appears to be breaking...

Simple ’faith in the System’ and ’keeping on keeping on’ starts to look pointless and fruitless when nothing appears to be on track anymore.

Here’s a thought to contemplate from a resident cynical realist:
The American Dream needs to be refocused.
The Nation of Immigrants needs to grow up and accept itself.
We, The People, need to pay F’n attention and stop acting like it’s all for Your benefit alone. It’s not, nor ought to be.
Your taxes Are Not all that high; go look at those in Europe.
Large corporations have been hollowing us out and acting like we should congratulate them for doing so.
Vote, idiot. If you think it’s pointless, you’re making it so. Educate yourself about that person who wants to make the decisions that will make or break you, your neighbor, your city, your state, Your Country.
Stay home, and I’ll decide for you.
If that doesn’t freak you out, You’re Numb and have no right to complain about ANYTHING.
We spend more on pizza per capita then on a space program.
There’s a cloud of space trash about the planet that will soon make launching anything a crap shoot.
Forget Mars. Forget about a weather satellite for that matter.
A Tesla can outrun a Ferrari that it outweighs.
Take a clue from that, and dump that Porsche.

Every time y’all -------about cables, fuses, and that you just spent more $ on a new cart makes me either laugh or wonder just what is really valuable and important in your life.

And yet, some of you think I’m just some sort of weird troll.
Well.....I’m weird enough to not be like YOU.

To borrow a line from Frank Zappa, from awhile back:
"I’m not black, but sometimes I wish I wasn’t white.
Have a good day.
@edcyn....The drawback of employing felines to to do your IC's is that as a whole, they see cables as merely very long shoelaces (complete with the 'hard ends').  And the inability to read poses a somewhat larger problem....

Just think:  Amp speaker output to a TT in....

*Foom*